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  1. The Consequences of Fear

    Winspear, Jacqueline
    Allison & Busby 2021

    London, October 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Dismissed by the police when reporting the crime, Freddi...

  2. A Cotswold Christmas Mystery : The festive season brings foul play...

    Tope, Rebecca
    Allison & Busby 2020

    It's Christmas, and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea's daughter Jessica has come to stay, much to her stepdaughter Stephanie's delight. But then things take a tu...

  3. The Exiles : A powerful story of hardship, redemption, freedom

    Kline, Christina Baker
    Allison & Busby 2020

    'Christina's level of research into characters, place and time to tell a powerful story of suffering and survival in an historical fiction is masterful' Heather Morris, author of T...

  4. The Mermaid's Call : A darkly atmospheric tale of mystery and intrigue

    Stansfield, Katherine
    Allison & Busby 2019

    Cornwall, 1845. Shilly has always felt a connection to happenings that are not of this world, a talent that has proved invaluable when investigating dark deeds with master of disgu...

  5. The American Agent

    Winspear, Jacqueline
    Allison & Busby 2019

    When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving...

  6. Unmarriageable : Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan

    Kamal, Soniah
    Allison & Busby 2019

    A FRESH AND DELIGHTFUL RETELLING OF THE JANE AUSTEN CLASSIC When Alys's family is invited to the wedding of the century in their town, her mother, the indomitable Mrs Binat, excite...

  7. To Die But Once

    Winspear, Jacqueline
    Allison & Busby 2018

    Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as the Bore War - nothing much seems to have happened yet - Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local...

  8. Ash and Quill

    Caine, Rachel
    Allison & Busby 2017

    Held prisoner by the Burner forces in Philadelphia, Jess and his friends struggle to stay alive in the face of threats from both sides ... but a stunning escape guarantees worse is...

  9. In This Grave Hour

    Winspear, Jacqueline
    Allison & Busby 2017

    Britain is at war. Returned from a dangerous mission onto enemy soil and having encountered an old enemy and the Führer himself along the way, Maisie Dobbs is fully aware of the gr...

  10. We Were the Lucky Ones : Based on the unforgettable story of one family determined to survive war-torn Europe

    Hunter, Georgia
    Allison & Busby 2017

    The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When w...

  11. Paper and Fire

    Caine, Rachel
    Allison & Busby 2016

    In Ink and Bone, Jess Brightwell learned that the shining light of the Great Library of Alexandria was an illusion ... one that hides great darkness. Now, barred from his goal of b...

  12. Guilt in the Cotswolds

    Tope, Rebecca
    Allison & Busby 2016

    Thea Osborne's latest housesitting assignment is a little different to the rest. Along with her spaniel, Hepzie, Thea finds herself in the village of Chedworth. She is asked to cre...

  13. A Southwold Mystery

    Hill, Suzette A.
    Allison & Busby 2015

    Rosy Gilchrist has been asked to accompany Lady Fawcett to visit Delia Dovedale, an old school friend in Suffolk and whom she hasn't seen for years. Rather reluctantly Rosy agrees...

  14. Ink and Bone : The internationally bestselling author's epic new series

    Caine, Rachel
    Allison & Busby 2015

    Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. In 48 AD, a fire set by the troops of Julius Caesar d...

  15. A Dangerous Place

    Winspear, Jacqueline
    Allison & Busby 2015

    Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place... In Jacqueline Winsp...

  16. Dreaming Spies

    King, Laurie R.
    Allison & Busby 2015

    1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find a stone. The stone is inscribed with the same name that they last saw in the Tokyo garden of the future emperor of Japan....

  17. Women Who Kill : Profiles of Female Serial Killers

    Davis, Carol Anne
    Allison & Busby 2014

    Why does a young woman lure teenagers into her car and participate in their horrific rape and torture? What makes a nurse lethally inject the healthy babies in her care? Women, sta...

  18. A Little Murder

    Hill, Suzette A.
    Allison & Busby 2013

    London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the...

  19. An Ill Wind : The heart-stopping urban fantasy adventure

    Caine, Rachel
    Allison & Busby 2013

    Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now Joanne is trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusati...

  20. The Firebird

    Kearsley, Susanna
    Allison & Busby 2013

    Nicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes sees images; glimpses into its past, and of those who have owned it before. Born with this rare abilit...