Florence, summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in the deserted city. He spends his days on routine work, and his nights tormented by the heat and mosquitoes. Suddenly one night, a telephone call gives...

Brreslau, 1930s, the Nazis are rising to power, Eberhard Mock is an ambitious senior policeman who likes brothels. Mock is prepared to let a young Jewish girl become a morphine addict and prostitute, allows and her father to be...

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known – the classic English detective story. The story is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate...

Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a “dream” tour of Egypt when things take a nightmarish turn: One of their fellow travelers, Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off one of the Pyramids....

Deep Country is Neil Ansell’s account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales. ‘I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of...

Two sets of fugitives Two sets of enemies One bizarre encounter When a chance collision with a beautiful woman in Central Park results in a head injury, international business consultant James McBride’s perfectly structured and rote life suddenly begins...

Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in suburban Boston. A 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, has been stabbed to death in the woods near the local school, and it is Andy’s son, Jacob, who is the one who’s been...

A group of middle-aged friends in search of the wilderness experience that has been missing from their big-city lives go canoeing one weekend. They pack all the usual survival gear – plus a banjo and a bow and arrow...

“I hate my life! After careful consideration and contemplation involving far too much alcohol I am resigned to the fact that I hate my life. I am a single thirty-one year old woman, living alone in my two bed...

A student flat on the Old Kent Road (look it up on the Monopoly Board if you aren’t familiar with it!). Sophie Chesterton is a girl about town – she knows all the right people, goes to all the...