This novel portrays the brugeoning relationship between a man with a deformed spine, who has lived a quiet and rather repressed life, and a talented female art student who asks him to model for her.

A young woman living in Zanzibar meets an older, married man on a visit. The attraction is strong and mutual: she seduces him, but he is a willing victim. They embark on a brief but passionate affair that marks...

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. 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...

Grace Miller and her husband move to the island of Macau, because his work takes him there. She decides to open a café where she serves tea, coffee, and macaroons, and meets and works with some people she ends...

Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun – literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And – what hurts most – he knows the story which ruined...

A dark novella from the master storyteller. Mary and colin are in Venice, struggling with their relationship, and they chance upon Robert. Introducing them to his wife Caroline, it becomes clear that something more sinister is at play.

The victim is someone she had pursued earlier in her career – and had never been able to pin down. Now a killer has taken the law into their own hands and meted out brutal retribution for ancient crimes....

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

It is September 1995 and Veum is in his office when a telephone call takes him back 25 years, to a case where a small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. In the following decades, the...

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. A PRIZE WORTH KILLING FOR. We call it the Great Escape. The annual trip where my boss asks us expert travel guides to escort a group of privileged, uber-wealthy clientele on some far-flung expedition,...