A gripping and heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers of War. Readers of James S.A. Core and Becky Chambers will love this fast-paced story of space piracy, deadly alien artifacts and a race to save what is left of humanity.When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Malachy Corcoran takes a demotion in order to accept a front-line job far away from his old position. If he can just keep his head down, perhaps he’ll avoid the worst of the personal and professional disasters headed his way. But once in Mission City, BC, he finds the woman he once walked away from. The woman he’s never forgotten.Abigail Reardon manages the office at Healing Horses Ranch in Mission City. She never told Malachy that she decide...

Murder -- it's one of the staples of mystery fiction. One of the unwritten rules of the mystery novel is to start your murder in the first chapter...and on the first page, if possible! Collected here are 22 tales of murder. Some are fiendish. ("The Doorbell" is especially chilling.) Some are exotic. (Egyptian mummy murder? You bet!) Some take place in far-off locations. (The Canadian woods? At sea? In foreign countries? Why not!) What they all have in common, though, is a criminal mastermi...

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘A joyous experience. I remember wishing there’d been more than twelve volumes.’ Roddy Doyle‘A long, varied, intelligent and funny narrative that will be a joy to us all for years to come.’ Philip Larkin‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature....

Newly promoted police captain Bennett Carlyle considers being project manager for the new district substation the way to prove her worth in the male-dominated upper ranks of the department. But when the first girl she loved returns as the architect with little understanding of the operational needs of a police station, Bennett’s career and her heart could face permanent damage.Architect Kerstin Anthony believes the new police substation will be the springboard to her own firm and t...

Kate Lambert is back, but this time as DCI for the Devon Constabulary, working alongside her handsome and mysterious partner Detective Sam Adams. A ghoulish murder of a young woman on Dartmoor has Kate and her team questioning the existence of the legendary beast of the moors. As more women fall, victim, Kate must determine whether they are dealing with a serial killer or something far more chilling.

He's fighting for his land, home, and woman… and he's going to win even if it kills him.Rancher Sebastian Maddox is a retired gunfighter who just wants to live a peaceful, quiet life on his Texas ranch. But when someone tries to scare him off his land, Sebastian realizes there is no peace without justice.Gilbert Kramer and his gang are the most wanted outlaws in the West.They're not just bad; they're pure evil.They relish in hurting others and make ...

The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up thecountry on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincol...

After being betrayed by her cheating husband, Catherine (Cat) Murphy and her Irish Wolfhound, The O'Brien, leave their home in Annapolis, Maryland and escape to a small fishing village on the wild western coast of Ireland hoping to find peace and quiet. But when The O'Brien unearths a small skeleton in their cottage garden with ties to the disappearance of the handsome Lord Granville's young wife, Cat is swept headfirst into a web of mystery and danger. Death stalks Cat as she and her best...

I am calling her Amber because amber is my favourite stone. In truth, it is not a stone at all. Technically, it is fossilised tree resin that has withstood all kinds of weather and woe, the likes of which would normally cause sap to disintegrate. Amber resists decay.I am calling her Amber to give her something precious. To remind her of what the world has to offer. She knew this once, more keenly than most. But she has forgotten. I am hoping to remind her that the worl...

'Honest, funny and, crucially, helpful to anyone who has ever had difficulty conceiving or considered adoption, this is required reading.' Emma ThompsonWhen journalist Rosalind Powell and her husband wanted to start a family, they had no idea of the journey that lay ahead. Encountering fertility issues and gruelling IVF treatment to no avail, but still determined to be parents, they set off on the adoption route. After many false starts and dashed ...

He's outnumbered and outgunned… but this sheriff won't give up his fight for justice.Sheriff Dusty Hicks has spent his life protecting others, but now he's facing a new kind of danger.It's a kind of evil he's never had to battle before, but he's willing to go to war if it means saving the lives of dozens of young girls.One-eyed Joe Pearson and his gang have a taste for the innocent.Joe likes his women young.He likes it even more when they're...