Only when it's too late does Mike Powell realise that he's wasted his talents as a jockey and spoilt his marriage. His riding career is in decline; his beautiful wife, Tessa, has left him. And, to cap it all, he's almost bankrupt, having tried to build a future by pinhooking. Then, on the way to the annual sportsperson awards ceremony, Mike is killed in a car crash. When his old friend Jed Harvard discovers that Mike's estate has been left to an American called George Parker - a man he's never head of before - his suspicions are aroused. Read More...

In 1973, Iain Forward was framed for murder. Finally released from prison, he's obsessed with the desire to find out who framed him, and why. His loyal wife Alison begs him to put the nightmare behind him so they can build a future together. But Iain can think only of the past - of the mysterious events in Singapore that led to his arrest. Read More...

When the body of a young man is discovered on the slopes of Mount Lycabettus, it is initially assumed that a pack of wolves is responsible for his death. But tramachus, an aspiring student at Plato's academy, has been murdered and Heracles, known as the 'Deciphererof Enigmas', is called into help unravel the truth. Read More...

Once again, Laurence Gough brilliantly captures the sights and sounds of Vancouver, as police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker investigate the murder of a city police officer, who had a very arcane sex life. But is that the key to his death? Read More...

Harry Pendel, Jewish-Irish foster child, is the charismatic proprietor and guiding genius of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of Savile Row, through whose doors passes everyone who is anyone in Central America. Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is an Old Etonian and spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: .. Read More...

Mahmoud said: "It is a time of calling in the debts. All over the city, it is a time when debts must be paid." January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gate of Egypt, perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself. In the heady confusion of war, rumours and counter-rumours flow thick and fast. But one thing is certain - Rommel has a spy in the city; a source so well-informed that the German commander knows, in advance, every movement of the forces that oppose him. Read More...

As church bells triumphantly ring in the new century, Veronica Winter - an American by birth, upbringing and instinct - bears her German husband a second son. This boy Paul and his brother Peter are the central characters in a complex and tragic family drama, which begins with an enchanted childhood and ends in the courtrooms of Nuremberg. Read More...

Bernard Samson plods through a snow blizzard in Washington DC, and he's not enjoying it. Old pals are not as friendly, colleagues not so confiding as they used to be. Or so it seems to him. Things have not gone really well for Bernard Samson since his wife, Fiona, defected three years ago. It was a rejection on several levels, and Samson - tough, cynical and macho - finds rejection difficult to contend with. Now, after his trip to Washington, his life becomes even more precarious. Read More...

The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK.47's, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution. Read More...

On the morning of 11th June 1940, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, took off in a private aircraft from a small town in central France. His destination: a deserted airfield near the Belgian border. His mission: a clandestine meeting with the would-be conqueror of Europe, Adolf Hitler. For more than forth years what happened at that meeting has been Britain's most closely guarded secret. A Secret still so dangerous to the security of the realm that anyone who learns of it must die - with their file stamped XPD: expedient demise. Read More...