Severn House

It's an exciting time for Liverpudlian Kate O'Donnell - especially as she's on secondment to an up-and-coming London fashion photographer's studio. But Kate sees a darker side to 1960s' London, when...

It's summer, and in the deprived areas where social worker Martin works, the water's cut off. As riots start, Martin's teenage son is framed, and arrested, for a terrible crime. Soon Martin has no...

When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke's College ? two bodies, buried thirty years apart ? the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers a...

Growing up in a poverty-stricken, fatherless household, Dorothy Jordan overcame her humble beginnings to become the most famous comic actress of her day. It was while performing on Drury Lane that...

The woman lies dead at the foot of the stairs. It's obvious what happened: she tripped and fell. But PC D'Arblay, called to the dilapidated West London villa by an anonymous tip-off, can't shake the...

A former chef gets mixed up in murder when she moves back to her Southern home town in the first Tiffany Austin food blogger mystery - a culinary cozy that will make your brain work and your stomach...

'A plot full of unusual twists, a flawed but likable and competent heroine, and a very satisfying conclusion make this a must-read for Spencer fans' - Booklist Starred Review The third book in the...

1590. The queen's spymaster is dead. Nicholas Faunt, believes he was poisoned and has ordered Kit Marlowe to discover who killed him. Marlowe consults the leading scientists and thinkers in the...

When a Russian hit team catches up with Roman Tobinskiy, political opponent of Moscow and former FSB colleague of Alexander Litvinenko (murdered by polonium poisoning in 2006), it's an easy kill;...

When the body of Lancelot Foley, a well-known actor, is discovered in an excavation in a fashionable Chelsea street one snowy February morning, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Brock is assigned the...

Eddie Luther, veteran and drifter, drives into the snowy woods with a bottle of sleeping pills. But instead of eternal silence, Eddie hears a whisper inside his damaged ear. Help me. He follows the...

1734. A young man arrives in Leeds searching for his missing sister - and ends up dead, his throat slit. Then the girl the young man came seeking is dragged from the river, drowned. Constable Richard...

1734. A young man arrives in Leeds searching for his missing sister - and ends up dead, his throat slit. Then the girl the young man came seeking is dragged from the river, drowned. Constable Richard...

Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company, in his own block of flats. She finds Sir Lucas's wife in a state...

The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage. And Bea Abbot has already clashed with Dilys's husband, the bullying Benton, when she refuses to...

Bea Abbot's husband and talented artist, Piers, is in a state. His morning visit to actress and 'national treasure' Karina's Belgravia home has ended in chaos as Karina appears to have been robbed...

When attending a birthday dinner, Bea Abbot doesn't anticipate that the evening will end with death. A curtain goes up in flames and two people are rushed to hospital. Bea looks for two girls. Was...

Bea Abbot investigates when her friend Leon asks her to provide him with an alibi after two bodies are found in a parking lot he was lured to, as an unknown adversary begins a series of attacks...

The latest Abbot Agency mystery - Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that does not '-do' murder. But the disappearance of Tomi, the star of an award-winning short film, is a different matter,...

Bea Abbots domestic agency does not, repeat not, investigate murder . . . that is, until she finds herself in the company of a dead man dressed as a pantomime dame. It looks like suicide, but why...

When the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fianc? Leon collapses, a skeleton is unearthed in Leon's garden. Having only just purchased the property, Leon and Bea set out to...

The restoration of a stately home takes a deadly turn in the gripping new Bea Abbot mystery. No one was more surprised than Julian Marston-Lang when the revelation of a shocking family secret led to...

To everyone's surprise Sheriff Hank Worth agrees to take a break and leaves Chief Deputy Sheila Turley to run the force. Meanwhile Hank has an ulterior motive for the trip. Aunt Fin is worried her...

When a woman's body is found strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Far Briege, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god...

The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding - straight-A student, prefect, future Head Girl - lies dead near the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London...

Tricia Borland is failing to bond with her baby. Lewis Ralston-Kerr and his fianc? Ginny are horrified by Ginny's mother's determination to disregard their desire for a small village wedding and...

Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to...

From the beginning of history, men and women have been haunted by figures of fear - and now, in his latest short story collection, award-winning horror writer Graham Masterton reveals the figures...

Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus uncovers a treasonous plot in this witty and intriguing new mystery November, AD 40. When a wealthy consul's wife asks Corvinus to investigate the death of her...

AD 40. When a wealthy consul's wife asks Marcus Corvinus to look into the suspicious death of her uncle, killed by a block of falling masonry, his investigations will draw him to the attention of the...