Gina Donovan arrives in Florence to stay with an old friend. She is hoping for nothing more than a break from her demanding young family, but as she soon discovers, this most ancient and beautiful of cities has its dark side. Within hours of her arrival, Gina meets the elegant Frances Richardson, who invites her to a party – the highlight of the expatriate calendar. However, as Gina’s week in Flor... More >

D octor Jonathan Ransom thought he knew everything about his wife Emma, until she was killed in a tragic skiing accident in the Swiss Alps. But the day after her death a mysterious letter addressed to Emma arrives at their hotel. When he opens it, his beliefs begin to unravel – fast. He has stumbled upon a massive international conspiracy and soon he is both pursued and pursuer; driven to discove... More >

En route from ending a destructive love affair, TV producer Maggie Warren is involved in a freak accident. When invited to discuss her trauma on a chat-show, Maggie comes face-to-face with fellow survivor, the beautiful but damaged Fay Carter. One by one the tentacles of Maggie’s past mistakes seem to be reaching inexorably into her future. And the secret Maggie has tried so hard to bury is coming... More >

Laos, 1972.The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but 72-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, a Paristrained doctor, remains and is appointed state coroner. When three bodies are recovered from a reservoir, Dr. Siri establishes that the cause of death was not drowning – they seem to have been electrocuted. And then there is the inexplicable death of a Party bigwig’s w... More >

Jin Li is on the run. She has been ‘disposing of’ valuable information from top city corporations for years, and now the people she has stolen from are out for revenge. Elsewhere, Tom Reilly is treating a pair of potential investors to a Yankees game when he receives a threatening letter. On the other side of town, mysterious Ray Grant, Jin Li’s former lover, is tracked down by her ruthless brothe... More >

The year is 1967 and chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico walks into Chubb University halls to be greeted by a limp corpse clamped in a bear trap. And this is just the beginning. Twelve murders have taken place in one day. Are they dealing with one killer or many? And if this wasn’t enough, Carmine finds himself pitted against the mysterious spy, Ulysses – who is giving military secrets to the Ru... More >

Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the travelling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As fascism spreads over 1930s' Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened and inspired by reading books, Zoli becomes the symbol of a supposedly brave new world of tolerance in the Soviet Union. But as her fame grows and her skills de... More >

Genghis Khan is the leader of a nation united from the tribes. He was victorious in the long war against the Chin, the Mongolians’ ancient foe. Now trouble arises from another direction. His embassies to the west are rebuffed, his ambassadors are murdered. The nation must embark on their greatest journey where they face enemies: ancient, powerful enemies. But the khan has chosen a path that will l... More >

Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis’ sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, China’s Song dynasty ...... More >

A man without a tribe was at great risk, so the young boy abandoned with his siblings on the harsh Mongolian plains had to struggle to avoid death. He survived both starvation and hostile attacks by learning remarkable leadership skills and gathering a group of outsiders like himself. Hunted and alone, he dreamed of uniting the tribes into one house, one nation. He became a great warrior. He would... More >

His warriors only have the bow, the horse and an iron discipline born from a land of ice, hunger and death. Genghis Khan must unite the most warlike tribes on earth in order to forge a new nation from the wilds of Mongolia. To achieve this, he must break the ancient enemy who has kept his people divided, while at the same time coping with his restless generals, ambitious brothers and growing sons.... More >

Judge William Barber's tour of the Southern Circuit starts off as normally as wartime England will permit. But as a strange series of incidents occurs, Francis Pettigrew and Inspector Mallet puzzle over whether these are nasty practical jokes, or if someone is trying to murder the Judge.... More >

Nic Lamparelli has it all – a high-flying career at a leading US investment bank, a beautiful girlfriend and a reputation as one of the bank’s star analysts. Then one day he wakes up to find that things can go wrong – fast. His closest friend uncovers a plot to implicate Nic in an insider ring, and before long everything starts to crumble around him: his relationship, his career, his reputation. B... More >

The official sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family. Twenty-five years after the events in the original novel, morphine addict Dr Jack Seward hunts vampires across Europe. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, son of Jonathan and Mina is pursuing a career at London’s Lyceum Theatre. When their production of Dracula loses its star, the... More >

Near Mount Etna in Sicily, on a hillside rising precipitously above the small terracotta-roofed town below, sits a perfectly proportioned house built in golden stone, the most beautiful in Taormina. A House in Sicily is a homage to Casa Cuseni, written by the Englishwoman who has loved and cared for it for over fifty years.... More >