'Murder was not altogether a bad thing', mused Lieutenant Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder Squad. But this one was. A twelve-year-old boy is found strangled and hideously mutilated. It looks like the work of a sex killer. Read More...

At first, it looked much like any other dead body. Breathtaking in its own way, of course, but nothing special... Then he saw that it far exceeded his expectations. He saw the arm bones fractured by a knot that must have been tightened by nothing less than a giant of a man, a human gorilla ... Read More...

Superintendent Bone - a most unusual detective - discovered that many people wanted Nanny Gray dead. Not just those heirs of Sir Gareth Herne who were passed over when he left all his money to his old nurse. Read More...

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...

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...