With millions of devoted fans, Tom Jones is not only one of the most successful singers of all time but he has sustained his popularity over an incredible four decades. Robin Eggar has talked to close friends, family, business associates in England and the United States, and to Tom Jones himself, and paints a rounded portrait of the man from the Welsh Valleys who has become a pop legend.

In the small, sleepy town of Gravity, Maine, an extraordinary drama is unfolding. For the sake of two million dollars, Bobby Swift is going to fake his own death and let himself be buried alive. And he's about to find out who he can really trust.....

Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit,' Milo Sturgis tells psychologist Alex Delaware. Though there's definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow crime scene tape. On a lonely lovers lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head. But the female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike......

Taking a winter break in the Yorkshire Moors, and staying at The Old Silent Inn, Superintendent Richard Jury witnesses a most perplexing murder. Fascinated by the lovely widow of the victim, and puzzled by the dangerous cloak of silence that surrounds her, Jury is sufficiently intrigued to undertake his own unofficial - and very unpopular - investigation and becomes convinced that there are clues to be found in a kidnapping some eight years earlier.

The vagaries of memory, the legacy of war. The last thing in the world Richard Jury wants to think about is the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood, and made orphans of so many of the gaunt and sad-eyed children pictured in this handful of snapshots his old friend Mickey Haggerty shoves towards him on his desk.

The Lincolnshire fens are the setting for Superintendent Richard Jury's latest case. This landscape is one that can easily deceive, volunteering nothing - much like the locals of the only pub for miles around, the Case Has Altered. There's been a double murder. The body of one woman is found on the Wash; another woman lies floating in a canal in Windy Fen. Both are connected with the same manor house.

Edward Maichin's eloquent sermons and blond good looks have ensured his popularity amongst his congregation in the small Welsh mining community where he and his family live. But at home, the dark side of Edward's character runs riot, and since his errant father ran away to America, his mother and younger siblings have been powerless to prevent Edward's cruelty which dominates their lives. Only his younger sister Theo, a gifted writer haunted by her stillborn twin, is brave enough to defy Edward's hypocrisy.

As Melrose Plant sits in a Cornish tearoom, he is served by remarkable young Johnny Wells - waiter, cab driver and amateur magician. Melrose is attempting to escape his Long Piddleton lethargy by renting Seabourne house, positioned high on a promontory overlooking the sea. It looks like the set of a 40s or 50s romantic film, but Melrose is unprepared for the onslaught of memories it triggers. And in examining his own past, he is caught up in the tragic past of its owners, the Bletchley family.

Prosecutor Ben Kaplan, New York Chief of Crimes in the US Attorney's office, has always known exactly where his loyalties lie. But when his investigation of commercial fraud by a group of orthodox Jews uncovers a brilliantly counterfeited hundred-dollar bill, he enters a world where all his certainties are challenged.

Tycoon Byron Trumbo is the owner of the Mauna Pele, a luxurious Hawaiian resort, and he's got a problem: guests have been disappearing, and now 500 five-star rooms are standing empty. Determined to sell the resort to Japanese investors, Trumbo invites them to the Mauna Pele to finalise the sale, refusing to allow anything to stand in the way of his deal. Not even when giant beasts capable of human speech are spotted, visitors turn up dead and dismembered, and volcanic eruptions fill the sky with smoke and flames as fast-moving lava flows inexorably towards the resort.