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Shortlisted For The Edgar Allan Poe Award 1995 For Inspector Banks and Superintendent Gristhorpe the abduction of a young girl brings back dreadful...

Whatever made us think that a catering business had anything to do with producing food? asks the exasperated heroine of Maeve Binchys Scarlet Feath...

Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investiga...

Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have ca...

Raymond Kelvedon had been a dashing subaltern in 1944 when he had come across the glorious painting by Raphael depicting Pandora releasing the seve...

The final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOY Ten years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harr...

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountai...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman. Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation modelled on the repartee ...

The body of a young local student is found on a lonely country road. Initially the evidence points to suicide, yet she didn't own a car and she did...

Love can grow on you, or can it? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair an...

The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying wo...

Harriet Swift has her life organized just the way she wants it: a satisfying career, her own immaculate flat, and a new boyfriend. But her well-ord...

It is late at night on a notorious council estate in east London. A van – garishly painted with a grinning clown's face on the side – is being driv...

The appearance of a young storyteller with a unique fictional voice is cause for celebration. Yann Martel's title story (described as "unforgettabl...

Inspector Salvo Montalbano, with his compelling mix of humor, cynicism, and compassion, has been compared to Georges Simenon's, Dashiel Hammett's, ...

For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but, more recently, he appears to have been usur...

A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursi...

'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear they what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessive...

In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of contr...

Dympna Byrnes lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Micheál, and does her best to help her family by wo...

Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over ...

A year after her mother's death, Katie Lavender receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact was...

Jonathan is a successful surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress, Abi; Georgia is a young actress on her way to an audition for the part...

Every summer the four Ryan children play in the ruins of Fernscourt, the once-grand house on the bank of the river. But when the estate is bought b...