After stealing one of his own forgeries from the Marquis of Gotham, Lovejoy is on the run. With a bounty hunter on his trail, he decides to flee the country and soon finds himself stealing away in the luxurious cruise ship Melissa - not as a stowaway but as a legitimate passenger. It's a stroke of luck, but Lovejoy soon discovers that his escape from the mainland has been masterminded by a group of criminals. Exactly what they want him to do, however, remains a mystery. As the ship moves i...

The dark streets of Manchester's underworld play host to a vigilante of the worst kind. Wanting to rid the city of evil, the assassin constructs a poisoned dart and scours the newspaper headlines for the next victim...Meanwhile, a young prostitute is viciously attacked and Doctor Clare Burtonall is placed in the unenviable position of deciding whether or not to terminate her life support. And as Clare contemplates the girl's future, her boyfriend, Bonn, does what he can to protect the othe...

When six-year-old Davey Charleston is kidnapped during a family holiday in Florida, his distraught parents finally accept that he cannot be found. They return to England to mourn the loss of their son. However, Davey's grandfather, Bray, is not so willing to accept Davey's disappearance; he knows it is down to him to rescue his young grandson. Suspecting that whoever took Davey will try to wash out any memory the boy has of his past, Bray begins to compile a series of children's books, wit...

KwayFay lives alone in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes of Hong Kong, and commutes each day to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying bribes, if she has to, and keeping silent when abused. Her only ally is Grandmother's Ghost. On the brink of the Hand Over with China, the Hongs and Triads - underworld organisations above the law - are concerned, since China's policy is to eliminate criminal cliques. When the head of a Triad learns of the impoverished 'no-family' gir...

The Rochesters are very good at keeping secrets...Thornfield Hall, 1821. Alice Fairfax takes up her role as housekeeper of the estate. But when Mr Rochester presents her with a woman who is to be hidden on the third floor, she finds herself responsible for much more than the house.This is the story Jane Eyre never knew - a narrative played out on the third floor and beneath the stairs, as the servants kept their master's secret saf...

A woman’s body lies twisted in a shallow grave. Carved into her bloody skin, one word. Guilty.A trail of bodies litters America’s loneliest highways, their branded corpses marking a path of brutal retribution. This killer is judge, jury – executioner. For a detective hiding a dark secret and an ordinary man willing to put his life on the line to stop the killing spree is running out.Judgement day has come. Who is ready to die?

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWNShould she catch the killer – or let them strike again?On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body. She has been trapped here for three days. It doesn't take DS Katie Maguire long to identify the murder victim: he's a cruel and powerful pimp she's been trying to convict for years.It's Katie's job to catch the killer. But with men like this dead, t...

The second book in the Jack Nightingale supernatural thriller series.Jack Nightingale found it hard enough to save lives when he was a cop. Now he needs to save a soul - his sister's. But to save her he has to find her and they've been separated since birth.When everyone Jack talks to about his sister dies horribly, he realises that someone, or something, is determined to keep them apart.If he's going to save his sister, he's going to have to do what he does best - ...

Taviscombe's veterinary practice is facing closure unless they can find a new partner to invest money in the business. Enter Malcolm Hardy; tall, good looking and rich enough to save the surgery. But soon he has offended most of the town, accusing a colleague of malpractice and installing his girlfriend as a veterinary assistant. As far as Sheila Malory is concerned, there is nothing to like about the new vet. But despite his unpopularity it is still a shock when Hardy collapses and dies a...

Praise for Melodie Johnson Howe's City of Mirrors:"City of Mirrors is deftly written and smart. On top of that, it is entertaining as hell."--Michael Connelly"A fine crime novel with an engagingly cynical edge"--Simon BrettNew York can be a deadly place. In this gripping murder mystery, the enigmatic private eye Claire Conrad and her independent assistant Maggie Hill are in New York and about to fly to Los Angeles when a young woman appears at their hotel bearing an unusual message: a lege...

The first mystery in the bestselling DI Wesley Peterson crime series set on the windswept Devon coast, by million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis.'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES'Clever plotting hides a powerful story of loss, malice and deception' ANN CLEEVES'Haunting' INDEPENDENT__________________DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived i...

Alec Sheldon owns the Rosebud Theatre, an old-style movie palace, and worries about the future, and mortality - a fear made all the sharper by the knowledge that his beautiful old theatre is haunted ...Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the co-author, with Stephen King, of In the Tall Grass.