Collection: Adult fiction

When the body of a young brunette is found in East Park River, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is catapulted back nine years to the case of 'The Groom', who placed a ring on the finger of each of his victims. Now, it would appear, The Groom has returned - but Eve is determined to catch him before he claims...

12-year-old Lyra, whose daemon Pantalaimon is part of her very self, is growing up in an ancient, ritual-haunted Oxford. She must rescue her friend Roger from evil kidnappers. In our world, Will has his own dangerous task to fulfil.

Philip Quinn has done everything to make his life perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbour, his life on the streets is firmly in the past. But one look at his adopted brother Seth and the memories come flooding back. In Seth he sees the boy he once was.

There's been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn - with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony ca...

Every family's story starts somewhere. Alice and Tom's begins here. On the eve of her 16th birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures - the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift fr...

Stoic, broody and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules - protect his clients at all costs and do not become emotionally involved. Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules - until her. Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and...

North Yorkshire, 1941. It's been two years since war broke out and the dangers of war are becoming ever more real for the Calvert-Lazenby family. Against her mother's wishes, 18-year-old Connie has moved out and is training as a carpenter - but life is about to get dangerous.

Puy-de-Dôme, France. A silenced man. Footprints in the snow lead to the murder scene of Marc Fraysse, France's most celebrated chef - brutally shot before he could make the revelation of his career. A determined man. Seven years on and the mystery still raw, Enzo Macleod, forensic investigator, ...

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz, we heard only Dorothy's side of the story. Maguire tells the other side - where the witch came from, why she was wicked and what is the true nature of evil.

Steppy Corner, voice of hit true crime podcast series All the Dark Corners, wakes in hospital with no memory of what brought her to Heartsick - the small Colorado town where her estranged family live - no memory of why she was racing up the mountainside to her parents' house late at night - or wh...