Theo, a turn of the century, South Carolina Preacher's son came from barely anything. Eldred, raised by share cropper parents, came from even less. Their paths overlapped for decades until one ended up dead along a deserted road and the other was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Prison.Theo, a turn of the century, South Carolina Preacher's son came from barely anything. Eldred, raised by Share-cropper parents, came from even less. Their paths overlapped for decades until one ended up dead along a deserted road and the other was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Prison. It is a coming-of-age story that evolves into a civil rights drama. This is based on a true story spanning more than sixty years.

Life just keeps getting harder.Hazel and the gang are back, but after the near cataclysmic events of the last year they might not be together for long. The Wyrms are on the move and so are those that serve them, including the Cindaraans who will let no-one get in their way.As long as they are on the hunt no dragon is safe, and if the group can’t learn to control their elements in time then they never will be again.Just as they are starting to settle into a routine back at the camp, the group falls under the public eye mostly because of newcomer Violet who harbours a secret that quickly thrusts them all straight into the limelight.Can they duck the paparazzi and stop the villains at the same time? Or will some of the very people they’re trying to save be the group’s undoing?Find out in Venom and Earth, the exciting sequel to Blood and Water. An action and adventure fantasy series that will keep you glued to every page.

Who was Anthony Garrett? The murder of a reclusive local man draws DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich into a baffling new case. On a hot summer morning, Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York, on his way to a few hours' work as an under gardener at The Grange. But when he arrives, he finds his employer slumped in an armchair in the drawing room, a bullet wound on his forehead. Miles' employer was a secretive and reclusive man who kept his employees and neighbours at a distance. Who was Anthony Garrett, and who are the three young, identical-looking blonde women who called at the house a few days before his body was discovered? Detective Chief Inspector George Hennessey and Detective Superintendent Somerled Yellich are soon on the hunt for a ruthless and efficient killer...

At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed – stolen – from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Vanessa fled the system, reconnected with kin and returned to country for the very first time. Only then did she begin to heal.In this book, Vanessa embarks on an extraordinary work of truth-telling, exposing the ongoing violence visited on Black children, their families and their communities by the systems that claim to protect them. As a survivor of out-of-home care, a practising lawyer fighting for the freedom of others and now also a mother herself, she takes an unflinching look at the heartache and trauma caused by racist family policing, the shameful rates of child removals and the steady pipeline of First Nations children into the criminal justice system.Long Yarn Short is a story of struggle, grief and love, a call to action from one of the most powerful voices of her...

No one would have believed that the end of the world would come in burgers. It's only horse meat, after all. But which horses, that's the question Craig Kennedy has to answer before it's too late. Mild horror.In this tale of comedy, mystery and the battle of the sexes, cheating-heart Hamish has finally driven his wife Elizabeth out of her senses. She has fled into the crypt of her ancestral home, convinced that she's the ghost of the Green Lady, whose spectral footsteps stalk the dark passages of Brackley Castle. But Hamish's friend Max isn't so sure. He suspects Elizabeth has a trick or two up her sleeve, especially as she's being aided and abetted by her clever, bewitching cousin Mina. Armed with only cunning and charm, who will see it through the night when the ghostly Green Lady walks?

An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last.A year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witnesses and victims to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.A Publishers Weekly Pick of Top 10 Books for Spring 2019 in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.A Verge Pick of Most Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.A GamersNewsClub.com Pick of Most Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.A ConquerBooks.com Pick.An SFBook.com Pick of Most Anticipated Books of 2019.A Barnes &...

The long-awaited sequel to No Gods, No Monsters from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull, We Are the Crisis sees humans and monsters clash as civil rights collide with preternatural forces.Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca's old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace.The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift on the horizon. Is there any hope for lasting peace? Or are these events just precursors to a devastating monster-human war?Meanwhile, beneath it all, two ancient orders escalate their mysterious conflict,...

A beautifully written and illustrated collection of Greek myths containing seventeen famous tales full of love, loss, greed, envy and bravery.Beautifully written by Ann Turnbull and illustrated by Sarah Young, this collection of seventeen Greek myths is truly something to treasure. The timeless stories of Theseus and the Minotaur, Persephone, King Midas, Ariadne, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus are told with great freshness and there is a good balance between the gentler myths and the ones packed with battles and monsters. A wonderful collection and a wonderful introduction to the fascinating world of Greek mythology, brought to life by one of our finest writers and an exciting new illustrator.

"Brimming with scandal and an equal amount of heart...a sweeping yet intimate look at the lives of some of history's most notorious figures from Vanderbilts to the Prince of Wales... A must-read."—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of When We Left Cuba and Next Year in Havana"Bryn Turnbull takes a story we think we know and turns it on its head, with captivating results... A beautifully written, meticulously researched and altogether memorable debut."—Jennifer Robson, USA TODAY bestselling author of The GownFor fans of The Paris Wife and The Crown, this stunning novel tells the true story of the American divorcée who captured Prince Edward's heart before he abdicated his throne for...

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Talented ten-year-olds Emily, Bella, Chloe and Grace are sick of people treating them like helpless princesses.Science star Chloe Karalis's favourite person in the universe is her grandmother - so she's thrilled when Yiayia comes along for a fab summer holiday with Chloe and her three besties. But when Yiayia goes missing on her daily walk, the foursome know that they're faced with their biggest mission yet. Can they combine their unique talents to rescue their beloved mentor?

Introducing Maurice Mundy, retired detective constable at the Met; a maverick who's back and about to raise the temperature on a ten-year-old unsolved murder of a young boy. Maurice Mundy, recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police, has returned to join Scotland Yard's Cold Case Review Team. Ten years ago a twelve-year-old boy was murdered, his body left floating in a nearby pond. A second look at the case soon reveals that a sex worker was also murdered nearby on the same night. While nothing linked the two murders at the time, it is one of a number of attacks on sex workers over a twenty-year period that Essex Police are still investigating as part of Operation Moonlight. Known as a loose cannon who doesn't always play by the rules, Mundy is in danger of ruffling more than a few feathers as he probes deeper into the events of that fateful night. Will his maverick approach lead him to the truth, or will it prove to be...

ReviewFans of Turnbull's Hennessey and Yellich series will immediately recognize his distinctive writing style and dry wit in this new series featuring London-based Detective Inspector Harry Vicary. In Vicary's second outing, he and his team must solve the puzzling case of a man's frozen body found on Hampstead Heath. Under the man's body, a shallow grave is discovered containing the remains of a young woman who appears to have been strangled. With this grisly discovery, the case turns from straightforward and routine to complex and dark, with a link leading to one of London's drug kingpins. A well-written, cleverly crafted police procedural that starts off slowly and builds to a tense finish. -- Booklist, October 1st, 2011 About the AuthorPeter Turnbull was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. He has had a variety of jobs--in a former incarnation he was a social worker for twenty-three years, an occupation he gave up to become a full-time writer. "Fear of Drowning" is his twelfth novel.

London 1665-66. With the plague raging and the scent of smoke upon the wind, Will and Susanna, separated by class and distance, struggle to reunite. Will has become a Quaker and broken with his father. Leaving Susanna behind in Shropshire, he travels to London, swearing to send for her once he is settled. But Will is arrested and thrown in gaol for standing up for his beliefs. This, along with the rapidly spreading plague and a dire misunderstanding, conspire to keep the lovers apart. A powerful story about how love and belief can overcome even the most terrifying twists of fate, this beautifully written tale will capture the imagination of readers of all ages.

The Garden of Allah novels: Book Three "Citizen Hollywood" It’s 1939 – Orson Welles, the enfant terrible of New York, is coming to Hollywood to make his first movie. Tinsel City is agog! Can he even direct a movie? What will it be about? Will he scandalize the West Coast the way he’s shocked the East Coast? And, more importantly, who will he bed first and does he kiss-and-tell? When William Randolph Hearst realizes Citizen Kane is based on him, he won’t be happy—and when Hearst isn’t happy, nobody’s safe. Marcus, Kathryn, and Gwendolyn need to go for broke, and the clock is ticking.

When you live in a city built on shifting sands of myth, it can be hard to know which way is up.Kathryn Massey spends her days spreading rumors and keeping secrets. Losing herself one headline at a time has left Kathryn's personal identity scattered—and dumps her at the narrow end of the bargaining table with the man she trusts the least.Gwendolyn Brick has simpler aspirations. As a costume designer, her sights are set on glamour, not heights of fame. But her friendship with Marilyn Monroe puts her directly into the crosshairs of studio head, Darryl Zanuck—and he's someone you don't say no to.Marcus Adler is stuck in a much more precarious situation. Exiled in Rome but under the spell of an unexpected romance, he'll have to learn to say goodbye to everything he's accomplished in order to give love a chance.In City of Myths, the road through Hollywood bears sharply to the right as those who dare to play its game can easily become lost in...

When a woman's body is found frozen on a bench one winter's morning, it looks like a simple case of death by misadventure. On closer inspection, however, marks on her neck - and a piece of paper hidden inside her shoe - point towards foul play. But as Hennessey and Yellich investigate, they discover that the victim may not have been all she seemed . . .

In Hollywood, 1927, three naïve hopefuls band together to tread water against a tidal wave of threadbare casting couches, nervous bootleggers, human billboards, round-the-world zeppelins, sinking gambling boats, waiters in blackface, William Randolph Hearst, the Long Beach earthquake, starlets, harlots, Harlows and Garbos. But how will they get their feet inside Hollywood’s golden door?

Talented ten-year-olds Emily, Bella, Chloe and Grace are sick of boys who want them to be helpless princesses.Design genius Bella Singh has built a clubhouse in her backyard, where the anti-princesses meet to thumb their noses at the notion that boys are best. But when they receive angry anonymous emails telling them to act like girls or else, followed by sabotage of their beloved clubhouse, it's clear they have a new mission. Can they unite their awesome talents to beat the bullies?

For years, a middle-aged, middle-of-the-road couple, Max and Amanda, had enjoyed each other's company in their modest home. With adult children, the two seemed to have everything they could want: health, some wealth and happiness. Until one day when they vanish, leaving behind no trace. Called in for the case, Detective Inspector George Hennessey, whose own life bespeaks horrible tragedy, automatically suspects foul play. His hunch proves a keen one when the bodies of the missing couple turn up in a shallow grave. But this macabre discovery is only the beginning of a case that will test the mettle of the entire police force. For one thing, no murderer would have killed them for their money since the couple had lost a small fortune right before their death. For another, the couple, apparently unbeknownst to the other, had been involved in illicit liaisons. For some reason, their only son has been acting strangely and to top these off, in the midst of the fracas a...

When her older sisters leave home, Doreen gets a room of her own – at last! But it's 1941, the cities are threatened by Nazi air raids and, to Doreen's dismay, Mum has decided to take in an evacuee. Rhoda Kelly is a year older than Doreen, has a boyfriend in the Army and, worse still, is a talented singer. Forced to share a room – and the limelight – tensions grow between the two girls, erupting finally into bitter conflict, with potentially tragic consequences.

1941: London is being bombarded during the Blitz, and Josie finds it hard to understand her brother's decision to be a conscientious objector. But when she goes to stay at No.6 Chelsea Walk with her cousin Edith and is drawn into tormenting one of her new classmates, Josie learns what it means to stand up for her own beliefs. Ann Turnbull's previous novels have been shortlisted for several awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. "Dramatic stories with a real sense of atmosphere." - The Guardian

What if home became a place of dread?Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's worse than she expects. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman in front of a family wedding party. Or that her rejected lover has returned unexpectedly.Maliha refuses to allow the woman's death to be brushed under the carpet but her investigations bring her to a very dark place. Slavery, sexual violence and taboo relationships guide her to a devastating revelation that might destroy her family.In a past that never was, the fourth book in the Maliha Anderson series reveals the darkest aspects of human nature with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose."There is something totally captivating about these characters.""Maliha brings out the best and worst in those she loves.""Maliha Anderson...

*A skeleton-filled grave leads DCI Hennessey’s team back to the aftermath of the English Civil War in this gripping mystery - * When a deep grave containing five skeletons is found in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York police station are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over twenty years, and the resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder that seems to have its roots in a legal dispute between two families going back to the aftermath of the English Civil War. But have the victims been discovered too late to catch the killer?

The dark days of Pearl Harbor loom over Los Angeles. America is at war, and posters warn Hollywoodites that loose lips sink ships. MGM screenwriter, Marcus Adler, needs to come up with a sure-fire hit, but he’s threatened by a vicious rumor: “Marcus Adler is a goddamned Commie.” After losing her job at the Cocoanut Grove, Gwendolyn Brick dreams of opening her own dress store. But will it be worth the trouble if it drags her back into the orbit of Bugsy Siegel? Hollywood Reporter columnist, Kathryn Massey, realizes her boss is gambling away his fortune—and her future. Could their very survival depend on a place nobody’s heard of called Las Vegas? In the city of searchlights, suspicions can lurk behind every shadow.

A young woman's body is found beside a fluffy toy rabbit in a shallow grave in a farmer's field in Lanarkshire.  When the fields surrounding the murder site produce several additional victims, forensic evidence indicates that the victims unearthed had all endured a period of captivity before being murdered, so when a separate inquiry into the sudden disappearance of a young boy becomes linked to the murder investigation, the police realize that a serial killer is at work - and that they are racing against time

It is 1930, the height of the Great Depression. Mary Dyer's father has left home in search of work, leaving his beloved racing pigeons in Mary's care – much to her mother's disapproval. During that long, hard summer there is barely enough money for bread, let alone pigeon feed, yet Mary clings to her dreams of racing glory, propelling her into ever deeper conflict with her mother.

Why are things never simple?Captain Qi Zang and her crew are on their way from Delhi to Kerala when their ice cargo ship is brought down in a storm. And then the local army mistake them for bandits.The only way out is to help the owner of the local plantation rescue her lover from a forced marriage. Assuming the army don't throw them in jail.

When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within twenty-four hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death, the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard realise they must be linked. But how? Vicary and his team are drawn into a complex investigation - one which will take them from remote cottages in rural Hampshire to the dark world of inner city sex workers, child abuse within north London suburbia, and the injustice of a long-standing wrongful conviction.

"Fans of Sally Spencer and Cynthia Harrod-Eagles will enjoy this one" Library Journal on AftermathA note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a London hotel leads Detective Inspector Harry Vicary and his team to a burial site containing the charred bones of two men. Their investigation quickly leads them into a dark and brutal world, but who were the dead men and how did they meet their fate? To solve the case Vicary must uncover what happened at a notorious gangland garden party—a party from which two men never returned...

They stopped the monsters, but at what cost? Who’s going to stop them?Chloe Dark lives in a world decimated by a pandemic that turned humans into genetic freaks, and she fears it will happen to her. When her best friend goes missing, Britain's tyrannical Purity ruling class keeps Chloe from discovering the truth. To find her friend, she has no choice but to take the road more dangerous...As Chloe realizes she has more in common with the freaks than she'd care to admit, the search to save her friend transforms into a fight for her life. Now she must risk everything to determine if the real monster is the one within.KYMIERA is an action-packed dystopian biopunk page-turner. If you like gritty sci-fi settings, strong-willed heroines, and coming-of-age tales, then you'll love Steve Turnbull's binge-worthy thrill-ride.Become KYMIERA. Buy it today to discover the real monsters...

1896. Two sisters. One ornithopter. The African Savannah. And one Army. Harriet (Harry) Edgbaston and her sister Khuwelsa enjoy their life flitting around the grasslands of East Africa in the ornithopter her father bought for her. But on a trip to see Lieutenant Schmidt of the German Army they become mixed up in what looks like becoming a major war. Escaping from captivity they msut try to warn their father in Zanzibar - but who will believe a couple of teenage girls?

When a young man is found knifed to death in a refuse-strewn Glasgow alley it appears to be an open and shut case for the P Division investigating team. The emaciated victim is identified as a known heroin addict, and the murder weapon -- apparently discarded in a panic -- carries the fingerprints of a fellow junkie. Two smackheads fighting out over their daily fix seems an obvious conclusion.P Division does't accept things at face value, however, and their investigation soon reveals that the corpse has been moved and the knife planted. This was no heat-of-the-moment murder...

Talented ten-year-olds Emily, Bella, Chloe and Grace are sick of adults trying to turn them into helpless princesses.When maths whiz Emily Martin's mother enters her in the local beauty pageant, it's the last straw - the four friends form the Anti-Princess Club, with the motto WE DON'T NEED RESCUING. Can they use their awesome skills to show the world that girls want to be valued for more than what they see in the mirror?

The discovery of a damaged vase takes Hennessey and Yellich back to a twenty-year-old murder case, with consequences for the present. A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team to take a fresh look at a twenty-year-old unsolved murder case. As the investigation opens out and links are made to other unsolved murders in the Vale of York and beyond, the net seems to be closing around a mysterious gang of killers and a vow of silence that's been kept for two decades. But when a new body is discovered in a local wood, is that pact about to be tested?

Harriet and Khuwelsa Edgbaston are not typical sisters.Harry wants to fly but even with all her sister's ingenuity they can't build a flying machine. Instead they just have the steam-powered runabout Sellie built.When they take a trip into Mombasa they are side-tracked by a landing Zeppelin and from that point things go from ordinary to outrageous.As chaos reigns they are forced to make a decision that will change their entire future.

1644 – Alice Newcombe, trapped and unhappy on her uncle's farm, finds her life transformed when royalist soldiers are billeted there during the Civil War. Suddenly her days are filled with excitement – and love for one young soldier, Robin. When the regiment moves on, Alice persuades Robin to take her with him, and she joins the other army women on the baggage train. The road ahead is long and hard – will there be happiness at its end?

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman's body throws Harry Vicary and his team into another perplexing murder investigation.'Big Andy' Cragg's drunken disclosure to an undercover police officer in a West London pub that he was once party to the disposal of the body of a murder victim sets a sinister and disturbing chain of events in motion for Harry Vicary and his team. A body is found exactly where Cragg said it would be, and the consequent investigation plunges Vicary into a labyrinth world of contract killings, witness intimidation and large-scale money laundering. Can he piece together the clues to uncover why a young woman was so brutally murdered?

Harry and Sellie are at home when the building comes crashing down around them. With their father kidnapped they are in a race against time to catch the man who has ruined their home and stolen away their father.

Yet again, floods have played havoc with the Yorkshire countryside and when one river changes its course, a corpse comes to light.When DCI George Hennessey and DC Yellich get to it they discover that its head has been severed from the body. Well, there could be a whole load of reasons for that. But as the case progresses, there doesn't seem to be a good reason for it at all. Steeped in the history, manners and countryside of the North of England, this is an investigation that leads from dental records to a reading group and from DNA to losing the appetite for a pub lunch. It is an unbelievably strange tale that Peter Turnbull tells unnervingly believably.              

It's 1896 in a world where airships fill the skies. In East Africa, sisters Harriet and Khuwelsa Edgbaston set off in their steam-powered ornithopter on the trail of hippopotamus teeth. It's an adventure more dangerous than any they've encountered before.

Missing babies in Johannesburg, and nobody cares.Maliha Anderson and her entourage travel to South Africa to return Riette's baby to the father's family on what should be a simple mission of mercy. But they are soon embroiled in race politics and something even darker: Children are disappearing but no one cares because they are black.In a battle against a vast subversive power Maliha discovers the worst horrors that man can commit, and struggles to bring the true perpetrators to justice. But what can one woman do?In a past that never was, the fifth book in the Maliha Anderson series explores a new land, new people and new relationships, with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose."Thoughtful, character-driven and sinister.""Maliha's world is not all sunshine and roses, and I prefer it that way.""Well-written, intelligent books that leave me an emotional...

The Garden of Allah novels: Book Two "The Trouble with Scarlett" It’s 1936 – Gone with the Wind is released by first-time author Margaret Mitchell and becomes an international sensation. Everyone in Hollywood knows that Civil War pictures don’t make a dime but renegade movie producer David O. Selznick snaps up the movie rights and suddenly the whole country is obsessed with answering just one question: Who will win the role of Scarlett O’Hara?

Talented ten-year-olds Emily, Bella, Chloe and Grace are sick of teachers assuming they are helpless princesses.Sports-mad Grace Bennett is ecstatic when her teacher arranges a training session for her with a famous football team. When Grace arrives on the field, however, her role is not what she expected - and it certainly doesn't involve kicking a ball! How can she and her anti-princess sidekicks teach their teachers that there's more than one way to be a girl?

Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frédéric together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decided to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty Sydney journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreigner status. But as she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quatier and surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering the haute couture fashion shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of France today, little by little Sarah falls under its spell: maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty-séduction.

In Glasgow one summer evening a young woman is frightened ... longing for the darkness which she can clutch to her like a comfort blanket.The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city somewhere. She knows this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she knows he knows where to find her because she stands every evening in an alley off Blythswood Street. The woman is just twenty-one years old. It is her death that will trigger P Division’s latest investigation. She was found at l0.00pm, the knife still in her throat. She was a heroin addict and had the words `I belong to Dino' tattooed on her groin. They were the only clues. Yet as the police interviewed anyone in any way connected with her, combed the area, collated evidence, they began to build up a picture of the dead girl, her associates, family, lifestyle, which led to the arrest of a vicious murderer who had killed and would kill again.

"In sixteen hundred and sixty-five there was hardly anyone left alive."Spring 1665, LondonSam was just a young boy when his master took him out of the orphanage to be his servant. When he was old enough, he was going to become his master's apprentice, a shoemaker, able to make his own way in the world.But that was before the plague arrived.Abandoned by Alice, his master's maid and the closet thing that Sam's ever had to a mother, Sam finds himself nailed into his workshop home with only his dying master and pet dog Budge for company. The officials call it 'quarantine'. But for Sam it's a death sentence.Can Sam escape? And even if he does, will he be able to survive on London's ravaged streets?

Nathan Ossler was a blackmailer: he made people tremble, pay up and want to die. So when he is found slumped in an armchair with the front of his head missing, nobody in the Yorkshire village of Strensall is shocked. Who, though, pulled the trigger of the .22 handgun?Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his loyal sidekick, Detective Sergeant Yellich, have a hard time choosing  a suspect from many who would have galdly shot the "universally unpopular foul-mouthed, foul-tempered Ossler."

Ronald Grenn served four years for the robbery and arson of a fancy antiques store, a job far beyond his small-time skills but for which he did the time and kept his mouth shut. Hours after his release, he's found with his face blown off in a fancy part of the city. Under the bed in his mother's council flat are newspaper clippings concerning the abduction, eight years earlier, of Ann Oakley, an Edinburgh woman. Although the 1,000,000 ransom was paid, Ann was never found and the case was never solved. The investigation into Grenn's murder links him to the owner of the antiques store, whose stock, paid for by insurance as destroyed, is now appearing in a steady trickle in other dealers' showrooms. As the men of Glasgow's P-division find themselves pursuing a present-day murder and its connections to two older crimes, officer Ray Sussock finds previous failures coming home to roost just as he's about to retire.

When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice centre, each with the word 'murder' scribbled in a foreign language and the same precise OS map reference, the police are called. DCI Hennessey of the Vale of York police and his team of detectives visit the sinister location and make a chilling discovery: the body of a professional man who had been reported missing ten years earlier. Who sent the postcards, and why so long after the crime? As Hennessey and his team investigate – uncovering more past murders, a case of local authority corruption and two manipulative wives keen to gift-wrap their husbands as murderers in order to benefit financially from their estates – they find themselves drawn into a puzzling and dangerous investigation.

"Us two have to stick together. Against fathers. And families." In the mining town of Culverton, workers are clashing with their bosses. Lennie's father is the Union secretary, a "troublemaker". Ralph's father is the boss, despised by his workers. Despite their very different backgrounds, Lennie and Ralph strike up a friendship, a happy escape from their own and their families' troubles. But how strong is their alliance – really? While his dad fights injustice at the mine, Lennie finds that he too must battle prejudice, lies and betrayal, pushing his friendship with Ralph swiftly towards breaking point...

Bill McGarrigle is brutally beaten up in a Glasgow back alley, and the police of P Division begin a full murder investigation. However, it is the annual summer holiday and the heat is causing extra problems. 

"In sixteen hundred and sixty-six, London burned like rotten sticks."Left alone and homeless by the Great Plague, Sam struggled to survive. He was lucky to get a job working for the Giraud family. Though Andre, the son of his boss, doesn't make life easy.And then a fire breaks out on Pudding Lane. Before anyone fully realises what's happening, London's burning...and this fire can't be put out. Now it's time for Sam to prove what he's really worth. If he can get out alive...A thrilling historical adventure produced in partnership with the National Archives.Sam's previous adventure is The Great Plague: A Cross on the Door, published by A&C Black.

1908. In a corner of India that will be forever France, a murderer walks. Maliha Anderson prefers to be alone and the murdered body washed up by the tide is one person too many. Having returned to the place of her birth to take part in the death rituals for her mother Maliha is confronted with a crime that will be unavenged unless she does something about it. But as she digs into the circumstances of the death she faces greed, lust and intense prejudice in a cultural clash between East and West. The question is, how far must she go to bring the true culprit to justice? In a past that never was, this tale of love and avarice is filled with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose.

Glasgow was under snow, deep and crisp and even - and still it fell. PC Phil Hamilton sees a pedestrian knifed and fall dead in Argyle Street, but the snow immediately covers the killer's tracks. Soon another man is knifed, and again found by PC Hamilton. Soon vigilantes are patrolling the streets and anyone and everyone falls under suspicion from both them and the police investigating the murders.Turnbull's experience as a Glasgow social worker enables him to draw authentic characters from every walk of life, and he perfectly captures the atmosphere of menace and fear overtaking the snowbound city.

An airship off course. A creeping horror. And a crew losing their marbles.Having finally made it to Ceylon, Captain Qi and the motley crew of the Frozen Beauty picks up a simple job: carrying Dr Morbury, a botanist, and his cargo up the coast to Bombay. Nothing could be simpler.But the trip turns into a nightmare as one by one the crew succumb to a strange disease. Until only the youngest member of the crew, Fanning, is left in his (or her) right mind.

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up.Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one.How can she possibly defeat a man with so much power he can make an honest man kill. With deaths piling up around her Maliha can only rely on her wits and her diminishing friends to help her on an unforgiving and unknown world.In a past that never was, the final book in the Maliha Anderson series takes her to a new world, where the very air is death and the power is all in the hands of her nemesis. Filled with vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose."Maliha remains a fascinating character at times warm and at others as cold as ice, almost suicidal in her search for justice.""Turnbull does not let his characters find a convenient way out of moral difficulties - it's one of my...

November 1605, LondonDark alleys linger with the shadows of unknown figures and the air is thick with whispers and plots.What is going on? And what can be done to put a stop to it all?Two girls stumble across a terrifying plot to destroy the house of Lords, taking countless lives along the way. Can they find out who is behind this terrible plan? And will there be enough time to try and put a stop to it?

Hollywood history is more than just colorful. It's dripping with red.As World War II ends, a new boogieman emerges: the Red Menace. When a scandal accuses Tinseltown of being riddled with Communists, MGM writing department head Marcus Adler needs to keep his reputation beyond reproach. Unfortunately in Hollywood, nobody's past is spotless.While the House un-American Activities Committee prepares to grill the brightest stars in town, gossip columnist Kathryn Massey is doing everything she can to shed the FBI informer mantle she carried during the war. Desperate to avoid tangling with a notorious mobster, Massey may have to take on J. Edgar Hoover himself to secure her freedom.The war killed Gwendolyn Brick's dream of opening her own store, but valuable secrets can creep into the strangest of places. From behind the perfume counter at Bullocks Wilshire, Brick makes a shocking discovery that could revive her dream and change multiple lives for good.In postwar Hollywood, there are...

1662 – England is reeling from the after-effects of civil war, with its clashes of faith and culture. Seventeen-year-old Will returns home after completing his studies, to begin an apprenticeship arranged by his wealthy father. Susanna, a young Quaker girl, leaves her family to become a servant in the same town. Theirs is a story that speaks across the centuries, telling of love and the struggle to stay true to what is most important – in spite of parents, society and even the law. But is the love between Will and Susanna strong enough to survive – no matter what?

First published in   Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine  No. 3 & 4 (No. 751 & 752), March/April 2004

Captain Qi Zang and her motley crew, aboard the Chinese ice freighter Frozen Beauty make landfall in Delhi, and run straight into British Customs officers. Unfortunately not all her cargo is ice, nor is it entirely legal.