Collection: Adult fiction

Stephanie Plum, bombshell bounty hunter, is dropped into a smorgasbord of murder, kidnapping and extortion. However, her mind is on other matters - she has two proposals to consider: marriage, and a single perfect night out with her partner.

His Majesty's frigate Undine sets sail for India and the seas beyond. Europe may be at peace, but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody struggle for supremacy goes on.

In a small Irish seaside town in the 50s and 60s, two very different children are growing up. They shout their hearts' desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far away from the town in which they live.

Trouble seems to find Stephanie Plum wherever she goes, and once again she's struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family and her god-given gift for destroying every car she drives. She decides to quit her job as a bounty hunter, again, but it's not quite so easy.

Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers. Isabel has other problems too: a randy, untrustworthy father and a slackly romantic lover, Colin Sidney.

Alice's baby is two weeks old when she leaves the house without her for the first time, but on her return she finds the front door open and the baby in the crib isn't hers. Before a DNA test can be taken, both Alice and the baby disappear and dark incidents begin to appear in her husband's past.

When retired Detective Inspector Billy Saunders' assistance is requested by the police in Inverness following the murder of a local town councillor, he has no idea that the investigation will set him up for a confrontation that originated in the Medway towns 40 years earlier, when he was a young ...