Sorted on book title (not in series order)
This Is How You Disappear is the second major work by Amazon best-selling author Allen Miles. This ferocious set of stories and prose takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through rain-soaked gutters and shadowy back streets, meeting a grotesque cast of drunks, drop-outs, and lost souls...Read more
Roddy Gaskell, grandson of deceased shipping magnate Roderick “The Pirate King” Gaskell, believed in “finders keepers”. His family were finders—of a priceless Old Master discovered behind a secret panel, and probably purloined by old Roderick himself. Locked in combat with his puritanical...Read more
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had - this is (at last) her extraordinary life story, and it's well worth the wait.
Award-winning actor,...Read more
Derek and Christine Cartwright live in a lovely house in the Suffolk village of Wyveling. When Christine's mother, Enid, arrives for a visit, Derek welcomes her warmly, but when an accident makes her a permanent resident, Derek's nightmare begins -- horrible dreams of strangling Enid to...Read more
Mrs Rainger hires John Goss to discover if her husband is cheating on her. Goss soon realises that his subject's secret life has nothing to do with women. Rainger is involved in a much more dangerous game than infidelity.Read more
Lowland Way is the epitome of the suburban dream. Every house and yard is carefully maintained for maximum curb appeal, and everyone knows one another and gets along. One homeowner, Sissy Watkins, runs a successful B and B from her house. Two brothers and their families live next door to...Read more
Nigel Strangeways is off to a Christmas houseparty hosted by Fergus O’Brien, a legendary World War I flying ace now retired from private life, who has received a series of mocking letters predicting that he will be murdered on Boxing Day.
His guest list includes everyone who...Read more
London, 1961: George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favored contract killer. Now 21, she is living next door to her lover Lizzie, now a fearsome dominatrix whose clients include a senior member of the government. Rina is approached by Tony Farina, one...Read more
Who wouldn't be pleased to attend a small dinner party being held by Sir Charles Cartwright, once the leading star of the London stage? At his "Crow's Nest" home in Loomouth, Cornwall.
Unfortunately, thirteen guests arrived at the actor's house, most unlucky. One of them was a...Read more
The feature of this nine short story collection is "Three Blind Mice" which is actually a novella.
The famous story opens with a blinding snowstorm trapping a small group of owners and guests in an isolated estate, recently re-purposed as a country inn. Although not aware of it,...Read more
After a stretch of knocking about the world, Harry Miles returns to England, where his new life as farm manager at Breakthorn Priory is imperiled by his being dragged into deadly crime.Read more
Dan Taylor has survived two attempts on his life. The rest of his team are missing, and now a terrorist group has stolen a radioactive isotope from a top secret government project.
Can Dan survive long enough to prevent a nuclear disaster on British soil?
With the...Read more
Dorothy L. Sayers began writing Thrones, Dominations, her thirteenth Lord Peter Wimsey novel, in 1936, then set it aside. When a fragment, forgotten for many years, was found in her agent’s safe, the trustees of the Sayers estate decided to ask the distinguished novelist Jill Paton Walsh to...Read more
A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest.Read more
Mick Habergham enjoys the nightshift; patrolling the midnight hours when the world is asleep and police work simple. Sunday night should be quiet but, as his mind wrestles with divorcing Angela, it will prove to be anything but.
From the mad knifeman of Hill Top Hostel to the...Read more
Marion Brand is a young woman of modest means who through hard work has managed to support her frail sister and shiftless brother-in-law. It is a stroke of luck when she unexpectedly inherits a large fortune from her unknown uncle, Martin Brand. She soon learns that he has bypassed his...Read more
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.
But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right...Read more
1945. Thunder Point opens at the Fuhrer Bunker in Berlin, the day before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The Fuhrer arranges for Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to flee Germany by air to Norway, where a German U-boat waits to take him to South America.... 1992. Sean Dillon, the elusive terrorist from...Read more
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim...Read more
Young lawyer Julia Larwood seeks to escape payment of her overdue taxes by fleeing to Venice with Ned Watson and becomes the prime suspect when Watson is found stabbed to deathRead more
A Christmas pageant turns unholy.
Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint the man's portrait and, while she's there, view the Druid Christmas pageant. Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities-- until one of...Read more
Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city's November smog before it is too late.Read more
Giles Denison awakes one morning to discover that his facial features have been changed and his driver's license bears the name of Harold Feltham MeyrickRead more
Time Of Death…
The Missing
Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up and from which she long ago escaped....Read more
DCI Anderson had met Lisa Allan socially only two days before her untimely death. Autopsy reports pose more questions than answers. As Anderson struggles to untangle the complex relationships of the dysfunctional Allan family, he becomes involved in a dangerous liaison with Lisa's husband...Read more
This is almost a love story.
Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of an overbearing father. And then...Read more
Political ideology and personal revenge clash when politician Leslie Titmuss is forced to stand on the proposed development of Greensward Country Town in Rapstone ValleyRead more
December in vicar and exorcist Merrily Watkins' village of Ledwardine, and the river is rising. The village has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one...Read more
He was young, arrogant, wealthy and in the bloom of health—or was he?
Like any small community, Linchester has its love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife’s...Read more
