Collection: Adult Fiction

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cooke have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were aquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint.

Jess is thrilled when her law firm's senior partner asks her to meet the President's wife in a Washington hotel late one Saturday night. But when everyone who knew what the First Lady was doing that Saturday night ends up dead, Jess realises that if she remembers, she'll be dead too.

Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. When a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the...

A striking first novel by a young writer - the tale of a highly unusual rites of passage which confronts one of the strongest taboos.

The discovery of two young girls' bodies leaves Detective Inspector Jack Frost in a race to hunt down the killer before he, or she, can strike again. At the same time he faces a crisis at Denton police station which could result in him being sacked.

Growing up in Bethnal Green, Charlotte longs for the day she's old enough to be part of the swinging 60s. Her family moves to the country, leaving Charlie homesick as she grows into a beautiful young woman. When she returns, she finds London has a dark side too, and the East End hides as many sin...

A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the 60s. From its tentative, unpromising early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate 40 y...

In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning ten. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a 300-year curse.

Jane is a brilliant corporate lawyer in the City - a lonely, unpopular career girl determined to get to the top. But when illness forces her out of work, she takes a voyage of discovery back to her estranged family in the Somerset Levels, where she is drawn into an old family feud to preserve the...

Despite a difficult private life, Harriet has a charitable but passionate interest in the local workhouse, and she can relate to Daisy, one of the residents, through shared personal tragedy. The parallels do not end when Daisy's lover flees after a violent attack which leaves her life in the bala...