In the winter of 1594, the body of a young woman is found washed up beside the Thames. She has been cruelly mutilated, and cannot be identified. Meanwhile, Thomas the Falconer arrives in frost-bound London on a sensitive mission: to persuade his master Sir Robert to give up his foolish infatuation with a notorious Lady of the Court.

With a penchant for wine and a weakness for women, Tyler is not the kind of man to let the law stand in the way of a good time. Rich, arrogant and spoiled, when his love of champagne, wine and cognac leads to the deaths of a young couple walking along a country lane in Kent, he'll do anything to avoid the consequences of his own excesses.

When MP Hugh Blakemore is shot dead near a bus stop in the Fulham Road, DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole are assigned to the case. But there is a complication that misleads them: months previously, Blakemore killed an inmate when visiting a prison. Although he was exonerated, Brock is convinced that underworld characters had exacted revenge.

When Handy returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend Burrow, who is brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. 26 years earlier, Handy, Burrow and Holden were three young thieves who pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy's been waiting for it to come back and haunt them ever since.

When Gregory Crowne is enlisted to help Gilles Guidon, eccentric son of a merchant banker, to assemble a jazz quintet for the Montreux Festival, he soon discovers that there is something wrong at the Banque Guidon.

Richard Mariner battles across a stormy Antarctic Ocean to find the great French super tanker, Lady Mary, drifting aflame towards the volcanic outcrop of Kerguelen Island. His task is a desperate one: alone, he has just one hundred hours to rescue the vessel before she sets off a catastrophic explosion.

The first in a new English Civil War trilogy As England is thrown into Civil War and the Royalists and the Roundheads clash, an era of unrest and instability begins. During this time of chaos, young Caroline Saunders is also fighting with her own heart over the man she should love and the one she actually does.

After her Aunt's suicide fall off Westminister Bridge, Gina's cousin Lindsie comes to take charge of her. Gina inherits her Grandfather's shipping line when she turns eighteen and throws herself into work to banish her emotional pain. Until, she meets handsome Dr Timothy Trenchard and finds true happiness at last.

Strange things are happening in Prophesy County, and it seems that Deputy Dalton Pettigrew and his family are smack dab in the middle of it. First, Dalton disappears on a mysterious date in Tulsa, then his sister Mary Ellen goes to rescue him, only to disappear herself.

When a woman is found brutally murdered in Langstone Harbour DI Andy Horton is appointed to lead the investigation - but not for long if Superintendent Uckfield, head of the newly formed Major Crime Team, has his way. Horton is given only a week to find the killer before being shunted off the case.

Suzie Fewings, a keen family history researcher, is delighted to be given access to the document chest at Hereward Court. She tries to ignore disturbing rumours about the owner, Floridus Hereward. She and her husband Nick are horrified when their son Tom and his friend break into Hereward Court to find evidence.

The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds. With a divorce from her cheating husband also pending, there is nothing keeping her in LA any longer. Cut loose from her moorings, Ali is summoned back home to Sedona, Arizona, by the mysterious death of a childhood friend.

During the weeks before Christmas, the personnel of 26 Section Special Investigation Branch are engaged in shifting their headquarters in Germany. It is not going well. Crime, of course, doesn't stop for the move, and head of section, Max Rydal and his deputy, are called to investigate a brutal attack on a young boy at a fancy-dress party.

Corinna Knolls arrives in London after a year of mourning her much loved mother and immediately falls in love with Edward Fitzroy, the new Marquis of Lanchester. The marquis admires the lovely but naive young girl, though he has no wish to marry her - or any woman.

As a young child, little Therese Daurignac had grown up listening to her father's stories of a secret inheritance. Many years later, at his funeral, Therese looks back at her own struggles to rise above misfortune, and to uncover the truth about her father's mysterious past, especially the contents of his secret strongbox.

Elizabeth Bellingham finds a wounded Cavalier soldier and nurses him. Meanwhile, he falls in love with her cousin Sarah. But when Sarah betrays Rupert, he abandons the love Elizabeth offers, asking to mourn in his own time as he rejoins the war. Now Elizabeth is faced with a choice: marry a man she does not love, or wait for Rupert to return.

Set in the Australian outback, this book is a novel of friendship and redemption. Bernie Molloy, after years of reckless living, is alone in her parents' old bungalow, with a job at the roughest bar in town. Then, a chance encounter with violence frightens Bernie into taking lodgers, and two very different men enter her life, to change it forever.

In 1913, beautiful but spiteful Marianne Trenwith has everything her younger sister, Sarah, wants, including the dashing Troy Pelham. But in a fit of petulance Marianne breaks off her engagement, much to Troy's relief and her family's mortification. As Lady Trenwith says, nobody likes a jilter, and Marianne's future, once so rosy, now looks bleak.

A corpse is discovered in the middle of the city of York. It is of a male, with no identification. It seems to be a professional hit, by the look of it. Gradually people talk; hints are dropped; and trails appear, all leading to a man with no record and who has never been inside a police station. But, the police know him.

Nursing a wounded soldier in defiance of the Puritan threat, Elizabeth stands by as Rupert Saunders falls in love with her cousin, Sarah. But when Sarah betrays Rupert, he abandons the love Elizabeth offers. Now, Elizabeth is faced with a choice. Should she marry a man she does not love for the sake of comfort, or wait for Rupert to return?