When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

There's no way to soften this, so I'll say it outright. I already have a wife.' In a single sentence, Walter Radcliffe destroyed everything Kate Sullivan had lived for up to their wedding day. Conventional family life in 1920s rural Somerset left her totally unprepared for the shame and disgrace of being jilted. Desperate to escape, she accepts the insulting gifts of Walter's money and his sham wedding ring and flees to the honeymoon hotel in Bournemouth to try and forget.

When an irresistible body meets an immovable bathing suit - something's got to give...
Until Dianne signed up with a suspect modelling agency, weight ad wolf-whistles had been her main problems - plus wondering who was peeking at her nude sunbathing.
Why was this gorgeous blonde with lots and lots of figure being asked to put on weight?
Perry Mason looked the situation over and found it easy on the eye - the hard part came later when Dianne was held for murder. If she was innocent, why was she lying?

LuAnn Tyler is an unwed mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the winner of the $100 million lottery.
But LuAnn won't do it. Less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson's offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems her only hope. However, ten years later, LuAnn secretly returns to the Unites States to begin a new life with Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky as her own. But a canny reporter has picked up her trail, as have the FBI - and Jackson.

The problem with being a bounty hunter is that it's all on the job training.And Stephanie Plum is still learning the ways to get yourself killed. Take the case of Maxine Norwicki......
When Maxine failed to turn up for her day in court, Stephanie was given the task of bringing her in. Simple. Except Maxine's boyfriend has now begun receiving mysterious coded notes from the runaway that hint at buried treasure....

Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back - and, boy has she got man trouble....
First, there's fellow bounty hunter Ranger, currently on the run from a murder rap and requesting Stephanie's help. Trouble is she can't decide if she should turn him in or keep him for herself.
Then there's sexy vice cop Joe Morelli - the man her heart says she's in love with (even though her head says otherwise). He's after Ranger too - but for less romantic reasons....
And now there's another male in her life - he's big, he's orange and he howls when he's left alone.

Business is slow for Stephanie Plum, so when her Uncle Fred goes missing, Stephanie agrees to help look for him. Soon enough, Stephanie realizes that (once again) she's in over her head, and up to her neck in unanswered questions. Stephanie for the first time takes a job with Ranger at his company to make ends meet.
Why are there pictures of body parts in Uncle Fred's house? Why is a nasty bookie following Stephanie around? Could her Uncle's disappearance have something to do with two dollars? Why can't she bring in the certified midget FTA Randy Briggs?
Stephanie's stalker Benito Ramirez, from book one, is released and is back to irritate Stephanie some more.

A severe case of World War Two takes James Herriot away from his vet's life in the Dales and into a training camp somewhere in England.... Square-bashing in his uniform of RAF blue, he daydreams of the livestock he left behind him.

Spirited, independent and in her late twenties, Miss Annis Wychwood held herself to be past the age for falling in love. Befriending a pretty runaway heiress brings unexpected consequences, among them the very conflicting emotions aroused by her encounter with the wayward girl's guardian, Mr Oliver Carleton, who was quite the rudest man Annis had ever met....

Captain John Staple had enjoyed active service too much to ever settle for a life of humdrum respectability. The post of gate-keeper to a toll-house in the Pennines appeared to offer certain unexpected and agreeable diversions. This exciting, witty novel tells how the handsome dragoon becomes involved with an engaging highwayman, a tacituen Bow Street runner and a stolen hoard of coins whilst protecting the squire's attractive neice from black villainy.