1915. Japanese-occupied Korea. Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. When her traditional father seeks to marry her into an aristocratic family, her mother defies generations of obedient wives and instead send Najin to serve in the King’s court as a companion to a young princess. But the King is assassinated, and the centuries-old dynastic culture c... More >

Eve was just eight years old when, as a Jewish girl in a Berlin school, the rumblings of the Nazis’ rise to power began to threaten everything she knew. Fortunately her parents managed to get their family out of Germany to start a new life in London. The horrors of war were just a part of the past, until the day when Eve inherited a treasured family notebook that hid an amazing secret.... More >

The Fischer House was the scene of a vicious crime in the 1920s – a crime which still resonates as the century turns. At its heart was a beautiful, enigmatic woman called Pandora Gibson-Hoare, a photographer of genius whose only legacy is a handful of photographs and the clues to a mystery. Paul Seaton was lured to the house 10 years ago and escaped, a damaged man. Now three students will die unle... More >

Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his father. But his lover Suzanne is uneasy and begins exploring the yacht’s past. What she finds is terrifying. Dark Echo isn’t just unlucky, it’s evil. It was built for Harry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his malevo... More >

When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker agrees to do a favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that it will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back into his life. But then Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their 14-year-old son Gabe behind. Then Adrianna Blanc, a party-loving nurse, is found swinging from the rafters. Her last phone call announced she was breaking u... More >

Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Amy colonel and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possession of the dead spy’s secret soon begins and threatens Pavel’s friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for his upstairs neighbour, Sonia. As the action hurtles t... More >

London 1759 and Jack Absolute's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, he has both a girl he worships and a courtesan teaching him the ways of the world. Yet he plans to give up all carousing and begin a new life – if he can just stay out of trouble for one night ... After duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter in a Canadian cave, the... More >

Dancing into Shadow in 1911 The summer of 1911 was one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see Nijinsky's gravity-defying leaps; the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next; and industrial strikes exposed the chasm between privileged and poor, while children, seeking relief from the scorching su... More >

When Kenji, a Japanese salaryman, loses his job at a TV corporation on his 40th birthday, he slips through to a different layer of society. In this shadowy world he meets a curious collection of characters – a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis, a pachinko pro with dreams of returning to Hawaii, and a TV producer who will stop at nothing to get his big break. With their help, Kenji sets ... More >

Jenny and Mark are determined that their divorce is going to be entirely amicable; they'll sell the house, split their money and possessions, keep the same friends, and continue to socialise. It sounds easy. So why do other couples make such a big deal of it? But their friends are more sceptical ...... More >

Life, Death and Survival in an Age of Global Terror On 6th June 2004, in a quiet suburb of Riyadh, BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were filming a report on Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia when then were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was shot and as he lay pleading for his life a figure pumped four more bullets into his body at point b... More >

Volume Two of The Liebermann Papers In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud – his friend Dr Max Liebermann – to assist him w... More >

Volume One of The Liebermann Papers It is Vienna 1902. In a city alive with art, philosophy, music and science a beautiful medium has been found shot dead and Dr Max Liebermann, a young disciple of Sigmund Freud, is called upon to help his friend Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate her death. The room containing the body has been locked from the inside and a cryptic note suggests a... More >

In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure – a painting by Vermeer – to Hitler’s right-hand man. The charge was treason; the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free: ‘I am a forger.’ This riveting account of greed, hubris, excess... More >

L ogan Finch’s blossoming relationship with DC Rebecca Irvine is put to the test when her old flame enters her life again. And there’s the small matter of a professional killer following her every move. Alex Cahill, close-protection operative, hates babysitting celebrities, but film star Tara Byrne, in Scotland for a film premiere, is the target of a disturbed stalker and needs Cahill to watch he... More >