‘Chronicles the courage and endurance of two women in wartime Shanghai, separated, then reunited, in a dangerous and desperate place.’
SARAH MAINE

April 1939. Berlin and Vienna. For Esther and Kitty, life is fraught with terror. The choice they share is brutal. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Unexpectedly, Shanghai offers a hope of...

I AM A DAUGHTER OF DEATH.
FROM THE ASHES I ROSE,
LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE PYRE.

I had a sister once.

I promised her the throne would not come between us.

But it is a fact of life that one must kill or be killed. Rule or be ruled.

Sometimes the title of Queen is given. Sometimes it must be taken.

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In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was...

Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying. What to eat, where to go, who to love. But one thing she is sure of – she wants to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.

Then Lea dies in a car accident, and Rumi is sent to live with her aunt in Hawaii. Now, miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, feeling abandoned by...

Expose the truth or let the dead lie still?

Grace Macallan's life is on an even keel – at last. But a 9-to-5 career away from the frontline isn't all it's cracked up to be.

So when she's sent to investigate a suicide at Glasgow's notorious Barlinnie prison, Grace gladly escapes her desk. The dead inmate is Tommy McMartin, heir to a ferocious criminal family...

Up in the Alps, Cara's old life feels a million miles away. Nobody at Hope Hall knows her past. With secrets to keep, can Cara allow herself this chance to live again?

New Year's Eve, San Francisco.

The most promising party of the year ends in tragedy.

Georgina is gone and nothing will bring her back.

Nine months later, Cara's mother decides a Swiss boarding...

Set in the badlands of urban Scotland, this taut, suspense-filled debut showcases a compelling new voice in Scottish crime fiction. When an expensively dressed, well-spoken Englishman walks into the shabby Dundee office of Allan Linton & Associates, Inquiry Agents, it’s the promise of a hefty fee that convinces Allan to take the case on. The Englishman...

TYLER’S STORY FROM THE SENSATIONAL DIMILY SERIES

“And all that’s left is me. The Tyler who doesn’t know who he really is.” 

At seventeen, Tyler Bruce is hot – a hot mess. His girlfriend is a knockout, his reputation untouchable, parties are nothing without him. Even his car is unreal. But inside Tyler is in ruins – and he’ll stop at nothing to keep that a...

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find your new neighbor dangling out of your window. And not only is he dangling out of your window, he’s also clutching your tattiest bra in his hand. What. The. Actual. Fudge. When notorious bad boy and new kid on the block, Alec Wilde, moves in next door to Riley, sparks fly. Alec is everything that Riley...

The Scottish Highlands, 1943 

A family torn apart by the secrets of war. 

In a remote corner of Scotland something momentous is underway. When Effie’s father receives a government notice to quit Kirk Farm, the lives of the Ross family and those of the whole community are utterly disrupted. 

But for Effie – irrepressible, beautiful, vital – wartime changes...

Grace Macallan is at breaking point. All around her, events threaten to run out of control – and a new investigation is testing her to the limit. 

An undercover officer is missing and a woman is washed up, traumatised and barely alive, on the shores of Berwickshire. She has witnessed horror on the dark waters of the North Sea, but survival turns her life...

Arizona, 1989

Joy Sheldon loves the plants that bloom in the desert but dreams too of the sea’s elemental wildness. Now, riven by terrible secrets, Joy embarks on a journey to seek her identity – and to discover why the sea pulls at her heart.

London, 1967

Lewis Bell, a young graphic designer, is aiming for the big time – if only he can keep his creative...

One farm. Two worlds. Three generations. 

Fuelled by dreams of a rural idyll, Lorna Sixsmith and her husband swap the 9 to 5 for a return to her family’s ancestral farm at Garrendenny. 

They love the fields and lanes of their corner of Ireland where their black and white herd flourishes, the land where the patterns of their lives echo those of generations of...

Abbie is missing. Her mother knows who’s to blame. 

But nobody is listening.

When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, he has no choice but to listen. Haunted by the girl’s cold gaze and her mother’s hurt, Valentine finds himself at the centre of the most harrowing investigation of his police career. 

As he uncovers a ring of ritualistic abuse that circles up...

BIOTERRORISM.
Real. Invisible.
Devastating.

And it’s taking New York by storm.

With its insatiable hunger for fast food, easy fixes and life lived at breakneck speed, the city that never sleeps is hurtling towards disaster. Now John Wyse, an ordinary New York cop, looks set to be the only person who can thwart catastrophe on an apocalyptic scale . . .New York...

Rose has always played by the rules – now it’s time to break them.

Life’s easier when you stay away from other people. Rose Valentine knows that. But some people are impossible to ignore. Take Theo Lockhart. He’s handsome, funny and beyond intriguing. He’s a mystery; one that Rose dreams of solving. 

Then one night Theo turns up on Rose’s doorstep, desperate...

Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin. 

But then Kiko doesn’t get into Prism, at the same...

A HAUNTED MAN. A BURIED PAST. A JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS.

'Brother, a dead body can't run from a coffin, but their spirit sure as hell can try.'

1967, Bristol. Life is tough for JT Ellington, ex-cop and reluctant private eye. He's still trading in favours, helping those scared of the police or trying to stay one step ahead of the law.

But when news arrives of a...

NOW WITH 72 FIVE STAR REVIEWS ON AMAZON

Approaching 80, frail and alone, a remarkable man makes the journey from his sheltered home in England to Berlin to meet his granddaughter. He has six days left to live and must relate his life story before he dies...

His life has been rich and full. He has witnessed firsthand the rise of the Nazis, experienced...

Book 2 in the Grace Macallan detective series

Scarred by the Troubles in Belfast, Billy Nelson returns to his Loyalist roots following his discharge from army service. But Belfast and the people he knew have changed, and after his gang are responsible for a series of violent attacks on innocent victims, he is forced out of the city and moves in on the drugs...

 A TAUT, COMPELLING CRIME THRILLER SET IN DUBLIN, FOR FANS OF SAM BLAKE AND ALEX BARCLAY 

 ‘Shocking and compulsive, Black Water offers a grittily realistic insight into the causes and consequences of inner-city drug crime – think The Wire set in Dublin.’

BRIAN MCGILLOWAY, NYT bestselling author of Little Girl Lost

Tara Crowe is on a mission to clean up the...