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Susan Trent is in her sixties. She ought to be well satisfied with her lot. Instead she lives in terror of her semi-employed, abusive, middle-aged son.

Eddings was murdered. Why did Scarpetta receive a call reporting his death before the police were notified?

For Bell, it was the break of her career - to interview Baron Charles de Gillesmont and Valentine Gordon.

Tweed, reverting to his one-time role as detective, faces the most frightening challenge of his career. Is al-Qa'eda about to attack London?

When a woman is found strangled on a torture rack in the basement of her fashionable Highgate home, DI Madeleine Fox's squad are called in to investigate the murder.

It seemed that Matt Thorneton would stop at nothing to get his hands on the Colorado ranch that Charlotte Darnelle had inherited.

A challenge for Mike when friends set up a "dare" for Mike and Steve to outstay each other in a disused air raid shelter.

Susan Melrose, unwanted child of notorious straitswoman, Jenny Leigh, faces challenges in proving her legitimacy and her love for Johnny Harpoon.

Suppose you were a bestselling author and someone gave you an idea for a plot, and everything you wrote started to happen.

Delia Lydgate is glad to exchange the hectic social life of London for the quiet of her grandparents' country home.

Shattered by the death of her sister, Louise Parker heads for England, intent on starting afresh. She arrives in the London of the early 1960's, where everything seems possible.

Scrupulously researched, full of incidents and anecdotes.

The early years of Seth's life had been a prison of fear, abuse and neglect. Now a successful artist, Seth returns to Chesapeake Bay to the only real family he has ever known.

John Turner, injured in an accident, sets out to find the three people who were involved with him. Was one of them a murderer?

When Louise Pritchard's husband Mervyn disappears without trace, she is left to run their remote Welsh farm single-handedly.