Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling & unique meditation on murder & fate. Dagmar a gentle eccentric spinster was the embodiment of Austerity Britains prudence & thrift. Her murderer Harold Haggers litany of petty crimes abandoned wives sloughed-off identities & desertion was its opposite. The texture of their lives & the impression their experiences made on their characters fated their meeting on that bleak autumn morning
- & determined the manner in which both would meet their death. Featuring Englands first celebrity policeman Fabian of the Yard the celebrated forensic scientist Keith Simpson & historys most famous & dedicated hangman Albert Pierrepoint this is a gripping & deeply moving book.
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An Alex Delaware thriller
- compulsive intriguing & unputdownable Alex Delaware's relationship with his longterm partner is on
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It is drawing near to the end of term & the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discuss the matter & a body is found floating in the pond in the librarys garden on the eve of its opening. Meanwhile there are rumours of a large force of dangerous smugglers lurking in the Fens. Aided by their friend Sheriff Tulyet Bartholomew & Michael must thwart the invaders before the Feast of Corpus Christi the following week. To fail might mean the destruction of the town... ...

It is drawing near to the end of term & the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discuss the matter & a body is found floating in the pond in the library's garden on the eve of its opening. Meanwhile there are rumours of a large force of dangerous smugglers lurking in the Fens. Aided by their friend Sheriff Tulyet Bartholomew & Michael must thwart the invaders before the Feast of Corpus Christi the following week. To fail might mean the destruction of the town... ...

Detective Inspector Delaney is looking forward to spending Christmas with Kate Walker & his young daughter Siobhan but the past always had a way of ruining Jack's best-laid plans. & this holiday season is no different! A year previously Delaney was responsible for the arrest of Michael Robinson a viciously violent rapist. Robinson always claimed he was set up by the police but before he could be brought to trail he was brutally attacked in prison & left for dead. He didn't die however & a year later out of hospital & fit for trial
- he is pointing the finger squarely at Delaney for the assault that nearly killed him. & not only that
- it looks like he has a case! & everything is about to get a whole lot worse for the Detective Inspector when Robinson walks free from court. There are new faces at White City
- & with them come old crimes old bones & old scores to settle! It seems that Delaney is not the only one in West London with a past they'll take any measures to hide. & as the body count starts to climb
- it looks like Jack himself might be about to join the club.



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Games should be fun but for two expert teams across the country they're literally murder
- because the winning team is the one
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Chief Superintendant Ian Hunter of the CID retired is a good old fashioned copper. He has been at the heart of the investigations into some of the Lancashires most notorious murders including the Handless Corpse Case the Black Panther & the Mad Dog of Pudsey. In this revealing book Detective Hunter tells us how in these & other hideous murders across the counrty the perpetrators were finally brought to justice. Modern science can certainly help to convict a criminal but as these accounts show all too clearly without instinct observation & sheer bloody hard work at the start no case would ever be solved. ...

An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of ' Lovely Louise' wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations & tension within the group becoming almost unbearable Poirot might just be too late... ...

Sophie Bradford is pretty blonde & an accomplished flirt. When her body is found dumped in a ditch on a lonely West Country road Jamie Mullin is the prime suspect. He was her latest boyfriend & they'd had a very public row just before she disappeared. Jamie protests his innocence but soon spirals into a breakdown fuelled by frustration self-pity & drink & it is left to his friend Matt Shepherd to fight his corner. Can he find the truth behind what appears to be a motiveless murder? As Matt begins to uncover some dark secrets
- secrets that someone will kill to protect
- he soon learns that loyalty at all costs carries a lethal price.

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Every memory holds forbidden places places of shame or terror not willingly revisited sometimes merely a cruel word said in haste & never forgotten a mean or thoughtless action but sometimes that memory is a monster foul murder left untried. The year is 1860 & Inspector Faro has been transported back to one of the darkest moments of his career
- the chase of the notorious Macheath across the Scottish border to the Kent countryside. Whilst there Faro meets an old school friend Erland Flett who is working alongside the artist William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites whose unconventional lifestyle is a startling revelation. Erland is about to marry a beautiful but mysterious young lady Lena Hamilton. Faro recognises her as the famous Madeleine Smith accused of murdering her lover but never convicted. Now Faro realises that he must apprehend Macheath & save his friend from certain death at the hands of the ruthless Miss Smith
- & time is running out.

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