Bognor tries to understand how a publishing magnate could have been crushed by smut Before retiring for the night, Vernon Hemlock pours a brandy, lights a cigar, and takes a look at his cache of pornography. Far more than a wad of dirty magazines stashed under a mattress, this is a collection of some of the world's finest erotica, dating back as far as a dirty doodle drawn by da Vinci. The millionaire publisher is perusing the Swedish section when...

Bognor braves the frost to discover who has murdered Canada's richest man In his lavish private train car, Sir Roderick Farquhar draws a bath. When it has been filled to his satisfaction, the portly captain of industry tips in three drops of bath oil and lowers himself into the steam. Within seconds, the poison in the oil has stopped his heart and ruined Simon Bognor's winter.   A special investigator for Britain's Board of Trade, Bognor makes the...

An army deserter returns home to see his dying mother-and stumbles into a deadly mystery-in this suspenseful medical thriller. Under enemy fire in Vietnam, Brian Maston had just one impulse: run. And he ran, all right-out of the war zone, out of the US Army, and all the way to Canada-and now he can never go home. He's spent years in Montreal working as a teacher, publishing a struggling magazine, and nursing a crippling addiction to alcohol when he...

A woman vanishes without a trace-and her relations are forbidden to speak her name   In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Waveney is headed back to the trenches in France when he decides to visit the land of his ancestors dating back to the Crusades. There, he meets a young girl who, upon learning he's all alone in the world, tells him she'd be sorry if anything happened to him at the front.   Nine years later, John returns to Waveney...

The author. The psychic. The vagrant. The hack.An invitation to a crumbling cottage in the lonely wilds. The legend of the witch who haunts it still. A disappearance from a locked room and the rising, ancient power that may be culprit. The hag has waited long for visitors, and guests are encouraged to extend their stay.For whatever remains of their lives.Welcome… to Craven Place."Any author that can take their writing across genres and still shine...

A black comedy set in the Swinging Sixties (1963-4) and revealed through the diaries of a doctor – 35 years old and still a virgin – whose curious obsessions drive him to start murdering his patients.Doctor Kristal is picky, pedantic and super-sure he's right – though he doesn't see himself that way. In his consulting room he regards most patients with contempt, and on his lonely walks through the graveyard he muses on life and death. In the...

A serial killer exposes casino players to a deadly drug to satisfy a personal grudge.How do you avoid something you can't see?FBI Agent Mac Morris and her team are drawn into a chase when a US Senator asks her new boss to oversee his wife's murder investigation. That's when things turn personal for the team.As they travel from state to state, several agents suffer from exposure to the killer's drug. Do they survive to see the case closed?Buy now to...

Resurrection Row: Lord Fitzroy-Hammond has been dead and buried three weeks when his corpse turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. It may be a macabre practical joke-or something far more sinister. Grave robbing isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare, but the case grows increasingly bizarre as other disinterred bodies appear. And new mother Charlotte Pitt gets involved when her late sister's husband becomes a suspect. Rutland Place: Charlotte's mother...

In the series prequel, Commander Terry Stratton is like a fish out of water in his new role, stuck behind a desk. He yearns for the hands-on action of solving crimes rather than the tedium of wading through crime statistic reports.When fresh evidence is discovered, the Deputy Commissioner must reopen an investigation into the murder of a young man from a wealthy family. She asks Stratton to personally investigate, and he jumps at the chance even though...

A sleuthing crime writer may be out of his depth when two passengers die aboard a luxury liner, in this "entertaining mystery" (Publishers Weekly). Crime writer Francis Meadowes has landed an enviable job lecturing aboard the luxurious Golden Adventurer as it cruises down the West African coast. His fellow passengers, including opinionated retired surgeon Klaus, mischievous elderly widow Eve, flamboyant designer Sebastian, beautiful American aid...