Bird Mystery

A body in the river is all in a day's work for Detective Inspector Peter Johns and his sergeant, Paul Godwin. But things start to become more personal when Paul recognizes their key witness as a close childhood friend and Peter's son is detained for suspected child abduction. Peter and Paul discover they have more in common than they realized, and it becomes difficult to keep work and family life separated.

After years of IVF, Kirsten White is a devoted mum to Harriet - and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. But Harriet has now turned five, and she can’t stay Kirsten’s baby forever. It might be hard, but it’s time to entrust her daughter’s care to her new teacher...the classroom is the one place she should be safe. Miriam Robertson has been waiting for the perfect little girl to walk into her class. She’s very picky...but when Harriet walks in, Miriam knows: this is the child she’s been waiting for.

It’s six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O’Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a horrific knife attack, clinging onto life at the side of the road. Clare dies minutes later, but not before whispering her haunting last words to Elizabeth. When it becomes clear that Clare’s killer has more than one murder on his mind, Elizabeth has to take drastic action or face losing everything. But what if she can’t stop a killer determined never to be forgotten?

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched.

Svart Marmor är en roman om makt och om okända krafter i Sverige. Bokens huvudpersoner, Lea och Jack dras in i ett spel där det kan kosta livet att veta för mycket om en orden med gamla anor och internationella förgreningar - och där någon till sist måste betala ett pris. David Ericssons erfarenheter som långtradarchaufför har han haft nytta av som journalist och författare. Han har under de senaste tio åren framgångsrikt givit ut ett antal romaner och en novellsamling och hans historier ofta haft anknytning till chaufförslivet.

One phone call in the middle of the night changes the life of a former soldier Joelle McCoy. Her best friend and battle buddy Concepcion Chapa is dead, and McCoy isn’t taking the alleged car accident at face value. Determined to discover the truth, McCoy sets out on a mission to find her best friend and bring her home.

He saves her, but can she save him? This is no fairy tale... Amidst the rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands, mysteries of the past converge with the present, weaving a tale of lost love, haunting legacies, and redemption. Jack Mathers is drawn into a suspenseful journey, seeking answers about his mother's death and his father's bizarre behaviour. As ancient folklore involving enigmatic Highlanders, sinister wolves, and ethereal cranes resurfaces, the Mathers family is plunged deeper into a supernatural enigma. "The Crane Wife" by Max China is a heart-wrenching exploration of love, ...

Fourth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season. Working in a call centre normally offers few career opportunities. But it looks as if Tracy’s about to get her big break.

A mysterious suicide. An airbus A380 heads over the Colorado mountains, before crashing through the snow clouds. The only bridge over the River Styx is taken out. No phones, no internet, no communication with the outside world. Then things start to get strange. Welcome to a town called Hell. This collaborative collection of short stories takes place over the last seven days in Hell. Poisonous green slime, murderous rampages, talking trees, rogue wolf-packs - the residents of Hell are having a bad week.

This is a love story. It is a semi-fictional story derived from actual circumstance and real events, mostly observed from a male perspective, but strongly driven by females. These events occurred during the feminist revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, which brutally took down many confused men and many unwary women as gender wars wrecked lives along the way. Admittedly, there were genuinely repressed women who were liberated as a result of that revolution, but it cannot be denied that there was a lot of collateral damage in the process.

Jazz singer Billie Stone has come back home to Sandhill Island to heal her psyche after a tragic accident that took her family. After a year in jail and penniless, Joe Franks thinks he deserves another chance. Just when Billie seems to be on the cusp of healing - and finding a new love - Franks’ rage spirals out of control. Have Billie’s losses made her strong enough to overcome once more, or will this final disaster be her undoing?

The moment Angelique arrives in Paris, she is taken prisoner by the SS. In a lonely little room, she is put in a chair with leather straps and a bloodstained seat and ordered to tell her captors everything she knows about the resistance. But Angelique knows nothing. She cares only for Martin, the boy who has been unable to speak since the bombs first fell during the Blitzkrieg. He has a secret - and she will protect it until her dying breath.