How dare a London store, no matter how big and famous, claim exclusive use of the first name of Charity Mupanga’s late father, Harrods Tangwenya, gardener to successive British high commissioners for nearly twenty years?
Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) – a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa’s most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her.
Well-meant but inept efforts to foil the lawyers by Edward Furniver, a former fund manager who runs Kibera’s co-operative bank and who seeks Charity’s hand in marriage, bring Harrods International Bar to the brink of disaster, and Charity close to despair. In the nick of time an accidental riot, triggered by the visit to the slum of World Bank President Hardwick Hardwicke, coupled with some quick thinking by Titus Ntoto, the 14-year-old leader of Kibera’s toughest gang, the Mboya Boys United Football Club, help Charity – and Harrods – to triumph in the end.

Thirty-three year old Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. War-weary and exhausted after a long stint in Bosnia he travels to Venice to meet Francis Xavier Peterson, and old friend and war correspondent for 'Time' magazine. Vanessa Stewart is a twenty-seven year old glass designer from New York. She's also in Venice, visiting the glass-blowing works in Murano.

Shocked by his brother's death, Jack McEvoy, crime reporter, investigates a surprising rise in police suicides. A disturbing pattern of coincidences suggests that a cop killer is choosing his victims with terrible care. Coast-to-coast Jack follows a trail of unusual 'suicide notes'. He may be on to the story of a lifetime, but scarier still, 'the poet' knows that Jack is on his tail.

Investigative journalist Kate Rider is just beginning her London tabloid career with 'The Flag'. Her first assignment is a seemingly straightforward accidental death of an infant at a nursery school. Kate, ever the opportunist, ruthlessly uncovers a past incident involving Caroline Kershaw, the school's proprietor. Following Kate's expose and ensuing front page success, the nursery school closes and Mrs Kershaw commits suicide. Michael Kershaw, successful city architect and husband of the dead woman, blames his wife's death on 'The Flag's' intrusive reporting and in particular the part played by Kate.

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.

Journalist Drew Looney is in a rut, waiting for her job to get better - or at least for a decent story. Then, while covering a mundane deportation, she accidentally stumbles upon something far more sinister.... Georgina Fitz-Simons has just overcome a flourishing cocaine habit, but not soon enough to stop her falling foul of gangster Broylan Grillo. As Drew and George are thrown together by circumstance they become increasingly mired in a dark world of drugs, slave labour, money and murder. Not to mention an inconvenient corpse, a Serbian hit man, and a retired Glam rocker...