Lachlan Doyle is a recently graduated Detective with the New Zealand CIB and is posted to Dunedin. A woman is found dead in her home, apparently having fallen down the stairs, but when Lachlan investigates further, he is convinced...

Long regarded as the Forbidden Land, Bhutan – or Druk Yul, the Land of the Thunder Dragon – was virtually closed to the outside world until the 1960s. Even today, little is known about this remote Himalayan Buddhist kingdom...

Barbara Nadel brings us a new and original pair of detectives in poverty-stricken Stratford East, whose inhabitants are cynical about any possible improvements the Olympic Park can make to their wretched lives. Here another set of Londoners is impelled...

Newly single magazine journalist Chelsea Benson can’t think of anything worse. Your grubby small nephew torpedoing any chance of romance with the dishy guy you met on the plane . . . Your eighty-five-year-old granddad chatting up ladies at...

Berlin, 1979. When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos...

Oswald T. Campbell, aged fifty-two, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given only months to live unless he moves South… He finds himself in the small town of Lost River, Alabama, where the residents are friendly if feud-prone and...

What happens when a bunch of murderous gringos are let loose on a third-world country? The country is Vietnam and the war has escalated into a technological bloodbath. Lyndon Johnson is in the White House and each night on...

Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short...

When Natalie Grey goes on holiday to Austria with her bossy friend, Glenda, her life is in a mess. Husband Adam has left her to live with a quantity surveyor (what is one of those?) called Sigourney; her parents...

When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their much-loved theatre is about to be taken over by coffee chain, Café au Lait, they are up in arms. It is up to Penny Leighton, hotshot...