Collection: Adult fiction

The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on a beach near Glasgow. It is Glasgow in the 1990s and the victim is just another dead heroin addict. But Tracy Eadie was only 14-years-old and came from a children's home in Glasgow. How did she get from there to where she is now?

The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates.

When homicide Detective Kit McKittrick and psychologist Sam Reeves discover a mutilated body in the desert outside San Diego, any number of people could be on their suspect list. The murder victim, local Councillor Brooks Munro, was a hated figure. Following the killer's trail, it becomes clear t...

Civil war ravages the north and south, battles fought between those who should be working together. It is up to Arlen and Jardir to put aside their differences and bring their people to terms if they are to have any chance of saving their civilisation from demon-rule.

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante's Divine Comedy. So begins an investigation that will haunt her...

London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema awnings lighting up the night sky. But for widowed Helen 'Dexie' Dexter, she's still a woman in a man's world. She longs to prove herself as an officer in...

Simmy Brown is four months pregnant, working partly from home, partly from her Windermere florist shop and very much feeling her age when her husband, Christopher, asks her to deliver flowers to Eleanor Padgett. As an expert in antique textiles, Eleanor has been a considerable help to him at his ...

When a child's bones are found near an ancient site that archaeologist Ruth Galloway worked on ten years earlier, she is asked to date them. DCI Harry Nelson hopes they are the bones of a girl, Lucy, who's been missing for ten years. When another girl goes missing, Nelson realises Ruth's expert k...

In New York City, a sniper dubbed 'The Longshot Killer' is taking out impossible targets. Nothing links the victims - except the brutal circumstances of their deaths. Detective Michael Bennett quickly develops a profile of the killer. Great with a gun. Probably ex-military. A profile that his new...

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...