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A bet in half-jest, a ruby and a passionate love affair take a man and a woman in an unexpected direction...

Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmas time and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas.

Black Glass reveals a first-world city increasingly dominated by surveillance, segregation and civil unrest.

Bea Abbot's domestic agency does not investigate murder - that is, until she finds herself in the company of a dead man dressed as a pantomime dame.

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. That's Jack Reacher's conclusion. He's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving.

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom.

Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield pursues the undead with a vengeance in the hope that one of her prey will be the father who ruined her mother's life, but her plans go awry when she is capture

When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, her task is to get the house back into shape for the wedding of the only son and heir, Martin.

Historical crime fiction which brings together art, money, crime, politics and treason in an extraordinary tale set in Australia's Great Depression of the 1930s.

An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.

"Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, didn't want to hear about serial killings.

Unpacks the compelling psychological riddles, inspired investigations and sensational plot twists of 13 sordid contemporary homicides.

The story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai, who ends up opening a restaurant in a quiet French village thus triggering a culinary war with the fancy haute cuisine place opposite.

Eleanor is returning to Italy after a fifteen-year absence. She is out to lay old ghosts to rest and to examine at a distance the grief that stalks her.