Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, sets out in pursuit of the Man in Black into a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York. Faced with an agonising choice, Roland is torn between damnation and salvation as he determines to find out what the Man in Black knows....

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.....

Alexander Kinloch found solitude and a steady income painting in a bothy on a remote Scottish mountain. Until the morning the strangers arrived to rough him up, and Alexander was dragged reluctantly back into the real and violent world he thought he had left behind. Millions of pounds are missing from his stepfather's business. A valuable racehorse is under threat. Then comes the first ugly death and the end of all Alexander's doubts. For the honour of the Kinlochs he will face the strangers.....committed up to the hilt.

EJ and Willis Pugh aren't one of the more ordinary married couples in Black Cat Ridge, Texas. EJ writes romance novels, Willis washes the dishes. Willis works on the cars, EJ solves local homicides. But the latest murder mystery strikes much too close to home when Willis himself vanishes. EJ isn't sure if her couch potato hubby's disappearance is some kind of mid-life crisis romp or something far, far worse. But she won't rest until she knows for certain the fate of her missing spouse - following Willis' tracks to a corpse, a lovelorn redneck turkey trucker..... and a nasty mess of family secrets that could turn very deadly indeed.

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, is awakened at 2:33am, she knows the news is bad, there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police.

Based on a true story................No place like home. But what if home is unsafe and violent? Fifteen year old Simone is lured by her new boyfriend with promises of a better life in a big city. On the run from a dangerous environment and her drug addicted sister, she arrives in Palmino with stars in her eyes and hope in her heart. Reality check? Okay. But what is reality when her boyfriend turns violent, the other itinerants brand her an intruder, and home becomes a drain or a squat? Simone's story is the story of a society in which no child was going to have to live in poverty: a land of milk and honey, which for some people turns sour and is filled with despair.

The fifty-something pharmacy manager at the Food Go in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ruthie Kantor Morris enjoys nothing better than dishing dirt with her waitress friend Denise. But sometimes the gossip turns grim...... Harry Stokes is their latest favourite scandal. The elderly gentleman has been coming to Ruthie for male potency hormones ever since his recent marriage to a woman a fraction of his age. But when the old swinger dies abruptly - a victim of lethally misused medicine - his grumbling grown kids point their accusing fingers at the baby bride. Ruthie, however, has her doubts. And a second murder much too close for comfort convinces the inquisitive pharmacist to look for a fatal family secret hidden somewhere in her prescription records.

A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world......Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling and political corruption

When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton and Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired - a chauffeur-driven limo, a stunning home in the very building Mr Milton himself lives in. Little does Kevin realise he's joined a brotherhood of blood. John Milton assigns Kevin one of the most notorious cases of the year, along with a file that had been put together prior to the crime......

For thousands of years, a remote, rocky valley in the heartland of a war-torn country has sheltered the truth behind the fall of an immortal race. In these mountains, the site of lost Eden - where Yarasadi freedom-fighters battle daily against Western oppressors - the coming Millennium revives a struggle far beyond mortal comprehension. For here, the secrets of the Grigori are buried; the angelic race who once had the power to control the fate of humanity.