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Pepper has been able to communicate with dead people since she hit her head on a gravestone. This time, she's contacted by the ghosts of Eliot Ness and Al Capone. But even after she does as Ness...

On opening an evil-smelling trunk labelled 'old books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants. Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins...

Driving across Dartmoor, Lina Townend finds two men robbing a medieval church. Outraged, she manages to stop them - only to discover that it's not just in Devon they are working. Safely back in Kent,...

The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot signals a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy. C?cile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter...

Guns in the GalleryAuthor: Simon BrettPublisher: Severn HousePublication Date: Feb 01, 2012Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1780290152ISBN-13: 9781780290157

Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. And it turns out to be a lively affair, culminating...

Writer's retreat Windy Corner becomes a sanctuary of a different kind when a man and his foster daughter are harassed by a social worker, with tragic consequences. Emily and Luke have returned from...

Portman is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy businessman Leonid Tzorekov, a former KGB officer who's planning to use his influence with Putin to improve relations with the West. But there...

A rare week off with his family is rudely interrupted when Slider is called in to investigate the murder of an elderly man, bashed on the head with a bronze statuette, in what Doc Cameron describes...

August 1917. For a change, in this investigation Hardcastle has plenty of suspects. Was the murderer one of Daisy Salter's many suitors? Or could it have been Daisy's own father? In an unfamiliar...

March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to a body is...

June 1918. A patrolling constable discovers the body of Georgina Cheney, wife of a naval commander, in the basement of a house in Westminster. At first it is thought to be suicide or even a tragic...

March, 1919. DI Hardcastle must find Lily, the missing daughter of Austen Musgrave MP. Hardcastle, aided by DS Marriott, discovers that Lily provides risqué entertainment for ex-officers. When she...

Cuba, 1957: When American PI Henry Gore snaps the wrong man's photo, he gets a fist in the face for his troubles - and a dark warning not to ply his trade in Havana in future. With money tight, Henry...

The 11th century crusading knight, Geoffrey Mappestone, returns to England where his father is dying and discovers the old man is being slowly poisoned. But who exactly is trying to kill him? Five...

Wanted for murder, ex-cop Steve Flynn is on the run, alone and without resources, driven only by a burning desire to avenge himself on the men who murdered his girlfriend. But he's up against a...

Growing up in a quiet West Country village, butcher's daughter Rebecca Peterson and her best friend Cindy Mason are keen to see more of the world - yet promise always to keep in touch. But when...

Life is good for Carl Burns and his partner Frances, who also stars in her own TV show, but Frances's TV exposure has attracted unwelcome attention. Targeted by a gang of small-time criminals who...

1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of wealthy retired businessman Penrose Llewellyn to celebrate his 60th birthday. But when the host is found dead in his bed, DI...

From the award-winning author of the internationally-bestselling Brigid Quinn thrillers, which have been translated into twenty languages, comes this gripping series spin-off: an upmarket novel of...

For the past fifteen years, Nicole Jones has lived incognito on Block Island, having abandoned her previous life as an expert computer hacker. But when someone from her past turns up, Nicole realizes...

Someone is trying to frame Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom for murder in the latest intriguing mystery. It's election season in corrupt Cook County, Illinois - where the dead vote on who...

Hiding a troubled past, new PI Kate changes her name and takes a case in North Carolina, where a client wants to contact a lost sister. Meanwhile, her new landlord, Eric, struggles with a competitor...

Doggie-yoga instructor Elle Pressley's Halloween is proving to be beyond creepy: first her eccentric Greek client tells her she's been cursed by the evil eye, then Elle discovers a body hanging from...

1910. When eighteen-year-old Lorne Malcolm runs off on her wedding day with the landowner's son, Daniel MacNeil, the jilted groom, turns to Lorne's older sister, Rosa, for comfort. Rosa's feelings...

Inspector Chen is on the case of a serial murderer when he is called away to report on environmentalists trying to tackle the pollution issues in China.Chief Inspector Chen and Detective Yu Guangming...

An eerie Appalachian town. A fatal fire. Three women whose fates intertwine . . . Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West...

The Last Ditch crew travel from California to an idyllic Scottish village for the holidays, but something very unmerry is lurking below the surface...The news that a man disappeared from the...

1747. County Coroner Titus Cragg has been called to the scene of a gruesome slaughter at a rural farmhouse. Meanwhile, his friend Dr Luke Fidelis is a guest at nearby Orford Hall, where a blackened...

Charlie is a Husker on the prowl in New Hampshire when he falls in love with one of them: a girl named Jill. He leaves the cannibalistic Husk clan, but it's more difficult and dangerous than Charlie...