Beneath a sky the colour of sapphires and the sinister moonlight, a gentleman in evening dress is discovered slumped in the stocks on the village green - he is dead. Superintendent Hannasyde's consummate powers of detection and solicitor Giles Carrington's amateur sleuthing are tested to their limits as they grapple with the Vereker family - a group of outrageously eccentric and corrupt suspects.

Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie's life gets shaken up. Max claims he's here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana's now taking his shots in the political ring.. Beaumont could use a mayor with scruples, but what it gets is a crime - and what Jamie gets is a story that's taking her for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins, a washed-up stripper and an insane poacher. Between a spray of bullets and a fast getaway, could it get any more romantic - or dangerous?

When Gene Vanbrugh discovers that a proposed business associate has been murdered he sets out to uncover the truth. His path crosses with that of Anya Stonari's, the beautiful but aloof mistress to a politician with a decidedly murky past, and their meeting acts as a catalyst to a dangerous political adventure. As the relationship between Gene and Anya grows, so does the realization that there is much more to lose than either had thought possible.

From a foxhole on Guadalcanal (shared with Barney Ross) to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the '40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and the Mob. Something happened at the Canal, something Heller's blocking out. What he can't block, though, is the wound he received - the 'million-dollar wound', the one that got him home. Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during the gang boss' last violent days, and with the gangland attempts to take over the movie unions.

A life of crime can be very alluring, especially to one who falls between law-abiding respectability and the underworld. For David Abden, a baronet's nephew who loves fast cars and women, illegitimate opportunities present more then mere temptation, and when the glamour of risk begins to consume his life, Abden is presented with few easy ways out

Rommy 'Squirrel' Gandolph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress towards execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy's reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent is the formidable prosecuting attorney Muriel Wynn. Together with Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, she is determined to see Rommy's fate sealed. Meanwhile, the judge who originally found him guilty is just out of prison herself and suspicious of Arthur's attempt at friendship.

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, land-owning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women rule the roost in the isolated Dorset village where he lives? Shenstead has become a ghost town and, with only five houses in permanent occupation, it's a place of too few people and too many secrets...

Spraining an ankle is rarely a stroke of luck, but for Lindsay Gordon, jobless in Glasgow, the injury is her introduction to freelance journalist Rory McLaren and the opening of a new chapter in her life. Rory's invitation to team up with her is irresistible. From there it is a just a short step to political corruption and other juicy stories - all welcome distractions from Lindsay's problems at home. But when a local car-dealer's stepson is kidnapped, Lindsay and Rory trade journalism for detection. The trail leads them to St Petersberg and a dangerous snatch-back operation that will test Lindsay to her absolute limits.

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less': Four men: the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless overnight. They band together and formulate a plan to sting the crook who robbed them for exactly what they lost. To the penny. 'Shall we tell the President?': The tale of a plot to kill the first woman President of the United States. Only one man stand between her and certain death, and the clock is ticking.....