When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him?

A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats.

The world of genetics is out of control -- now the new Sunday Times bestseller from Michael Crichton, one of today's most famous authors, shows you what happens NEXT!

A gruesome discovery has just been made in Manhattan - a cache of the bones of dozens of murder victims. Evidently a serial killer operated in New York's notorious Five Points neighbourhood in the 1880s. Then a news story on the old murders appears to ignite a fresh series of similar killings.

Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has accused him of sexually harassing her. She demands his transfer, thereby threatening to cut him off from the millions he would have made.

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D C firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better. He was a rising star with no time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; but his assailant did not. Who was this homeless man?

Introducing Dexter Morgan, a serial killer to fall in love with...

They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. Before, he had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetry in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S Lanigan.

Troy is a self-made billionaire. He is also eccentric, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. Nate is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. And, Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God. In this story, their lives are altered by the startling secret of The Testament.

Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they handle cases for other inmates, and practise law without a licence.

The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in striking new cover style.

The new paperback of the bestselling thriller from Dean Koontz, one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times. In Odd Thomas he has created a character whose unique voice will live for generations to come.

The ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators.

Mitch Rafferty has just sixty hours to save his wife.

The adrenaline-fuelled first novel in the Women's Murder Club series

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them.

Presents the story of a man ennobled by his wife's tragic murder, and an exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism.

Introducing James Bond, this title finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply The Cypher by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to retire him. Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected saviour.

For the first time since A Time to Kill , Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi - a place rich in colourful characters and dark family secrets. This time he tells the story of a dying judge who leaves his dissolute sons three million dollars in used bank notes.