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A Name in Blood

by Matt Rees

Italy, 1605: For the ruling Borghese family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio, it is a place of rough bars, knife fights, and grubby whores. Until he...

Sleight of Hand

by Nick Alexander

Living with his soul mate Ricardo in an idyllic beach-house in Colombia, Mark looks like he has finally found true happiness. But all is not as it it seems.

Despite the paradisiacal beaches and salsa music, Mark...

Better Than Easy

by Nick Alexander

It's perhaps revealing that believe and naïve should rhyme so well...

Mark is about to embark on the project of a lifetime, the purchase of a hilltop gite in a remote French village with partner Tom. But with...

50 Reasons to Say Goodbye

by Nick Alexander

Mark is looking for love in all the wrong places.

He always ignores the warning signs, preferring to dream, time and again, that he has met the perfect lover until finally, one day...

Through fifty vivid snapshots...

The Case of the Missing Boyfriend

by Nick Alexander

Thirty-nine year old CC is living the urban dream: a high-powered job in advertising, a beautiful flat, and a wild bunch of gay friends to spend the weekends with. And yet she feels like the Titanic - slowly,...

Truth Dare Kill

by Gordon Ferris

1946: The war's over. But there are no medals for Danny McRae. Just amnesia and blackouts; twin handicaps for a private investigator with an upper-class client on the hook for murder.Danny's blackouts mean that...

The Secrets of Pain

Merrily Watkins #11

by Phil Rickman

INTRODUCING MERRILY Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of England and Wales. Like many men and women doing an essentially...

The Unquiet Heart

by Gordon Ferris

LONDON AND BERLIN, 1946 The perfect partnership - gang-busters by day, lovers by night... Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new...

The Queen Must Die

by K.A.S A. S Quinn

This is the story of Katie Berger-Jones-Burg. One minute, she's under the bed of her New York apartment... the next she's in Buckingham Palace, at the height of Queen Victoria's reign... A dangerous place to...

When Hoopoes Go To Heaven

by Gaile Parkin

Ten-year-old Benedict is feeling happy. His family's new home in Swaziland has the most beautiful garden in the whole entire world, teeming with insects, frogs and his favourite cinnamon-coloured birds. Here,...

The Mall

by S.L. L. Grey

Dan works at a bookstore in a deadly dull shopping mall where nothing ever happens. He's an angsty emo-kid who sells mid-list books to mid-list people for the minimum wage. He hates his job. Rhoda has dragged...

The Smile of a Ghost

Merrily Watkins #7

by Phil Rickman

In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to diocesan...

The Prayer of the Night Shepherd

Merrily Watkins #6

by Phil Rickman

There were certain phrases you could feel, like fingers up your spine. Hattie Chancery's room. The possessive. Present tense. Oh God... A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales. A suggestion of inherited...

The Lamp of the Wicked

Merrily Watkins #5

by Phil Rickman

'You're looking at his inspiration. These are ones he wishes he'd done, the ones he wishes he'd got to first...' After half a century of decay, the village of Underhowle looked to be on the brink of a new prosperity....

Midwinter of the Spirit

Merrily Watkins #2

by Phil Rickman

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES 'They'll follow you home... breathe down your phone at night... a prime target for every psychotic grinder of the dark satanic mills that ever sacrificed a...

A Crown of Lights

Merrily Watkins #3

by Phil Rickman

'This receptacle was found in the wall beside the fireplace. It has been suggested you may wish to restore it to its proper place.' When a redundant church is bought by a young pagan couple, the local fundamentalist...

The Cure of Souls

Merrily Watkins #4

by Phil Rickman

'Black poles against the pale night... like a site laid out for a mass-crucifixion.' In Herefordshire's hop-growing country, where the river flows as dark as beer, a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder....