BONE MACHINES"One of the most promising new writers I have read for some time. I highly recommend his work." - Michael Moorcock (on the author's short story, Dr. North's Wound)They suffer for his art...When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the spectre of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rears its head.Journalist Ray Bissett is drawn into the case when his daughter joins the ranks of the missing. And ambitious policedetec...

What if killing your demons isn't enough to save your soul? What if you also need to kill your friends?A sniper assassination in the center of Glasgow, a ritualistic killing in the city's subway system, and ancient Persian symbols stitched beneath the skin of the victims trigger a complex police investigation headed by Detective Inspector Tom Kendrick.Meanwhile, Gulf War veteran Edward Franklin is handling courier and punisher chores for corrupt businessman Oscar Cranston. ...

A gritty Scottish crime thriller featuring a very different kind of serial killerThey suffer for his art… When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the specter of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rears its head. Journalist Ray Bissett is drawn into the case when his daughter joins the ranks of the missing. Ambitious police detective Tom Kendrick won’t let Ray forget a terrible incident from his past that resulted in the death of a young boy. Dam...

Honor killings, witchcraft murders, and the machinations of rival gang lordsKali, Indian goddess of destruction and change, weaves her dark spell in a complex crime novel of fear, deception, brutal killings, and power mongering.When an unidentified young Indian bride is ritualistically murdered, Detective Inspector Tom Kendrick and forensic anthropologist Elizabeth Bell are mobilized to hunt down the perpetrators. But Kali keeps spinning her web. Elizabeth finds herself in ...

Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd’s memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, we discover what life was really like for young colonial planters in late-1950s Malaya. Increasing daily rubber output may have been their goal but for the young planters the bigger pictu...

Men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s were a lurid form of pulp publishing which specialised in stories of cruelty and savagery, often in exotic settings. The jungles of Africa, South America and Asia, or remote tropical islands, often formed the background for tales of attacks by man-eating animals, cannibals and headhunters, voodoo worshippers, sex-crazed Amazons or Mau-Mau rebels threatening torture, decapitation and rape for the white male and female victims unfortunate enoug...

Alone in the universe after the destruction of Mars, Catarina Solovias joins the Starlight Eagle, under the banner of Charles Godstorm, a wealthy merchant who disguises his true nature as a murderer and thief. They encounter a ship from another time that rips them out of their own timeline and into the far future, where they are captured by the mysterious Morgan.Godstorm trades Catarina's life for his, leaving her to find her way anew in a universe she has no knowledge of....

Humanity has reached out to the stars, an exodus of dehydrated packets waiting to be sent down to any habitable planet with water on it, to start life anew. They are watched over by an AI, programmed to find them safe haven.Chief Engineer Mara Loganova is reconstituted early to repair a fault the AI can't fix, only to find the ship engaged in a war against a populated world, using weapons it didn't leave Earth with.addWith the AI breaking all of its programmed rules...

How would you feel if your most precious possessions were gradually disappearing? What could you do? When Cynthia’s dolls began disappearing, she had no idea what to do. No one could help her—not even her own family. This mystery story is only solved on the last page.

The FBI profiler & co-author of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Mindhunter recounts his role in catching one of America's most notorious serial killers.Inside the Mind of BTK tells the incredible true story of how FBI profiler John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. For thirty-one years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, ...

Romeo and Juliet (yes, that Romeo and Juliet) invite you to join them in celebrating the union of their spinster daughter, Rosie (she’s 20!) to Escalus the younger, prince of Verona, where murder is the unexpected guest at the wedding.My Lady Jane meets Knives Out in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd brings you the wedding of the season star-crossed with poison most discreet.

This night at the pub will be his last . . . A classic whodunit starring the "affable Scotland Yarder" ( Publishers Weekly).Harry Dodd needs a ride home from the pub—but it's not because he's schnockered. He's actually been stabbed. Unfortunately, no one realizes it until it's too late. Who would want to kill such a well-liked fellow? Inspector Littlejohn is called in, and his investigation reveals a recent woeful turn in Dodd's life, the ambitious family ...