Original Sin is set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman and managing director. Read More...

A Dalziel and Pacoe novel. This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and as the Dendale reservoir waters shrink and the old village re-emerges from the depths, old fears and suspicions arise too as someone sprays the deadly message on the walls on the small town of Danby. Read More...

Featuring Dalziel and Pascoe. Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door might be his own size (and indomitable willpower). Pascoe is certain of a conspiracy and the attempted murder of Yorkshire Police's most inept officer only convinces him further. Read More...

It's 1963. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. For two years he'd been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy - and love - into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life, even though he feels empty and a little bored sometimes, but all that is about the change. Read More...

1953 and there's a cold wind blowing across America. Even in LA, Easy Rawlins is feeling the chill, with the tax man at his door... the only way to make some luck is undercover work for the IRS. Until one of his targets winds up dead and the fingers are pointing at Easy... Read More...

A novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgement on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is dying. Read More...