There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man who can help is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on - if it will help him escape.

What makes a serial killer? Only one man really knows. John Douglas. A man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime unit and into the disturbed minds of some of the most savage killers in the world.

In the summer of 1933 a group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. This book features the story of these outlaws whose exploits became folklore.

The Red Dragon is a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families. He is a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes. Special agent Will Graham is reluctantly lured out of retirement, to find an opening to the evil mind of the Red Dragon.

The sequel to Silence of the Lambs marks the return of Dr Hannibal Lecter. One of Hannibal's victims, the influential and rich Mason Verger - a paraplegic confined to a respirator thanks to Hannibal - is bent on revenge and FBI agent Clarice Starling provides the perfect bait.

A John Corey adventure, which many are saying is his best book yet. Fast-paced and gripping, it is also one of the wittiest thrillers you'll ever read. Corey's deadplan humour marks him out as a true original.

The fifth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series.

Three FBI agents. One armageddon. It's the near future -- sooner than you might hope -- and the war against terrorism is almost lost.

Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him.

Shocking, heart-wrenching and electrifyingly suspenseful, SHADOW MAN is the most stunning debut thriller for years.

Hollywood has a new psycho and FBI agent Alex Cross is on the case

The honeymoon is over - now the murders can begin.

On the trail of a serial killer, Dr Kay Scarpetta follows the forensic footprints of a victim's life, unconvinced that the murder is the work of the same killer. She begins to believe someone is on the point of releasing the smallpox virus back into a world which has destroyed all vaccine stocks.

The first Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery, which won five international awards when it was first published.

A superb and bestselling debut novel in the tradition of LABYRINTH or THE DA VINCI CODE...

Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, is faced with the disappearance of five young couples from their cars, who, when found dead months later in deeply wooded areas, are without socks and shoes. Using the latest forensic techiques, she tracks the murderer.

An unputdownable, heartstopper of a story from 'a true master' Daily Mirror.

An adventure thriller, from international bestselling author, Nelson DeMille. This book is a John Corey adventure.

The fourth novel in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series which was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of 1993