A killer call. A murder close to home. A case only DCI Matilda Darke and her team can solve.No one wants to be the first one to die…***'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths‘A master of horror and suspense’ ★★★★★***A KILLER CONFESSIONWhen journalist Danny Hanson answers a call from someone with blood on...

Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer sits like a woole...

From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series, comes a brand new standalone to keep you on the edge of your seat.***‘A powerhouse of a book… Incredible’ Jane Casey'Tense, atmospheric… A first-class crime novel that already feels like a classic’ Elly Griffiths‘Unputdownable… Michael Wood [is] a force to be reckoned with’ Sophie Hannah‘Michael Wood’s books are the gold standard of crime w...

A killer call. A murder close to home. A case only DCI Matilda Darke and her team can solve.No one wants to be the first one to die…***'Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths‘A master of horror and suspense’ ★★★★★***A KILLER CONFESSIONWhen journalist Danny Hanson answers a call from someone with blood on...

In the middle of an unexpected experience that impacted everyone across the world; a new audio-only app burst on the social media scene and connected people from all genders, ethnicities, and social status in a way no one thought possible.Celebrities, influencers, CEOs, authors, politicians, artists, stylists, and leading entrepreneurs emerged as dynamic voices that freely shared their wealth of knowledge and experiences with people who were suddenly faced with the ...

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more…DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word.Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back to Matilda's case. Suddenly the past and prese...

‘Amazing… literally blew me away’ ★★★★★‘Real Stephen King vibes. Tense, unsettling and a surefire winner’ Trevor Wood'An intense one-sitting read full of twists and turns that kept me guessing right until the end’ Angela Marsons️️️A bestselling writer. A murder that hasn’t been scripted… Or has it?Since being left for dead in a brutal attack, crime writer Aidan Cullen hasn’t le...

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”—carries multiple meanings. On a ...

‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly GriffithsThe second book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid.When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead.The victims are ...

‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly GriffithsA short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid.It’s Christmas in Sheffield. But not everyone is enjoying the festive season…A man has been found brutally murdered in his own home. The victim is Iain Kilbride, a once-famous TV sta...

Cats in the Mouse House launches a mystery/techno thriller series in the spirit of Rex Stout and Michael Crichton. Created by Michael and Mary B. Woods, co-authors of 50 published books on science and technology, the Nicholas Drake novels unfold from Towering Oaks, an updated Civil War era plantation in the Virginia countryside near Washingtion, DC. Home of Nicholas Drake, former FBI director turned news media magnate and private investigator and his flagship newspaper, Towering Oaks gives...

Michael A. Woods has been digging into core precepts that define leadership for the past thirty years.As a young man in the Navy, he was perplexed by the random distribution of leadership talent. Sailors lined up to follow some leaders, while others with the same rank could not motivate a crew of subordinates to sweep a deck.While teaching lessons on Biblically based leadership, the author discovered the story of David and Goliath, recognized many leadership core concepts d...