Collection: Adult fiction

Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s.

It's 1970 and there's a killer on the loose in London. When gang boss Annie Carter gets a call, suddenly it's personal. A close friend of hers is the latest victim, and another is in the frame for the murder.

Agatha receives a less than welcome invitation to ex-husband James's wedding to a beautiful, younger woman. But it's one wedding and a funeral when the bride is murdered on her big day.

Poor Justine and Seth. Their Lighthouse restaurant was razed to the ground and an arson investigation is under way. The prime suspect is a young ex-employee named Anson Butler, who disappeared right after the fire. It's clear that this kind of crisis is not good for a marriage.

Winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a storm. There's a small town 20 miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. And there's a ruthless man who controls everyth...

Three women working in the fast and furious world of magazines meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets off a train of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship.

The indomitable Daisy Dalrymple matches wits with a mysterious band of kidnappers in an effort to locate an abducted American heiress before it's too late.

Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI - she's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds?

To Phillip Murphy, family is everything. Christine has always understood this about her husband, but there is another side to Phillip, a side he never wanted his wife to see. Though, even if she did, could she do anything but stand by him? Once you're in the family, you're in it for life.