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PJ has a life she's happy with - she spends her evenings as an up-and-coming San Franciscan DJ, scratching, spinning and mixing disks an...

From the time she was a child Annie Colville has seen the dead - they're always dressed in chocolate brown, and they want her to deliver...

Anne Smith is miserable and exhausted (and starving!) with the mumps, thought she's so miserable and exhausted that her parents say she ...

It seems like the coldest of cold cases when DI Karen Pirie is asked to locate a man missing for almost quarter of a decade, but Mick Prenti...

Jas, the star of Bad Kitty , is back, this time in Italy, completely against her will, thanks to Dadzilla, who's researching the history...

Jack Spratt, head of Reading's Nursery Crimes Division, is back from his triumph in the Humpty Dumpty case ( The Big Over Easy ) - only ...

Subtitled How to write a chicklit novel , this comprehensive text begins with a history and definition of the genre: a subgenre of the large...

Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent is unpopular with Atlanta's police force as a result of the corruption enquiry he heade...

It's been three years since Anna, Bett and Carrie have spoken; a huge fight caused by Carrie stealing Bett's fiance from her ripped ...

FBI agent Jules Cassidy and partner Robin Chatwick, who met in Force of Nature , are about to tie the knot, an adventure marred only margina...

An explosion on a flight from New York to London crashes, killing all those on board, including the wife, daughter-in-law and two grandchild...

Actuary Min Dobbs decided not to sleep with David in the first week they were dating, when he told a waitress they wouldn't need desert ...

Willis "Willie" Keith has been fairly protected, sheltered from the harsher realities of life by his doting yet domineering mother...

A sixteen year old girl living at an all-girls boarding school in the late sixties keeps a diary. Her poet father had committed suicide, her...

Sam Foundling is one of England's rising sculptors, the happy father of an infant and the loving husband of a good woman, the daughter o...

Once a week an anonymous modern-day Scheherazade tells a growing email list of strangers the intertwining stories of four friends, all girls...

Persian cat breeder Maxie Dublin's been waiting for the birth of her daughter for as long as she can remember - she, too, will be a red-...

When one of the editors outs himself in the first chapter as a Da Vinci Code fan I expected this book to offer yet another weird and wacky ...

There are rules to being a Hunting Hills wife, rules that newcomer Claire Stark, a journalist who grew up in impoverished Webster County, is...

A decade old, this is an ecclectic collection of short stories on a variety of themes around young adults finding themselves in places they ...

Gemma genuinely loves researching clothes - her roommate hates watching historical series with her because Gemma can't see the plot or t...

Ex-cop Enrique (Ric) Alvarado has set up a PI firm in Sarasota, Florida. The younger sister of his best friend from high school, Annie Dugan...

In Class A James Adams went undercover to destroy the Kevin Moore Gang. In the absence of a strong leader, Moore's old turf is being fo...

Far from home, Sir Alanna, her cat Faithful and her trusty manservant Coram are on a quest to find the Dominion Jewel when she crosses paths...

James is trapped in Russia when mission with MI5 goes seriously, and mysteriously wrong. Though he's shown CCTV footage by a CIA agent, ...

Oh, it is so hard being the second wife, particularly when you're husband's 20 years older than you, and you used to work for his wi...

Sir Alanna, the first female knight in living memory, cuts a unique figure - purple-eyed, lion rampant, a purple-eyed cat curled upon her sa...

Once a prisoner in Poland's notorious Jadwiga Concentration Camp, Dr Adam Kelno fled England when, though defeated, a false charge of sa...

Still disguised, and on her way toward becoming a knight, Alanna is now a squire to Prince Jonathan of Conté. On her way back from Corus she...

Alanna of Trebond wants nothing more than to be a knight, but she's a girl and has to train to be a lady instead. Her twin brother Thom ...