Collection: Fiction

Carla Roberts lives alone in the top of a highrise building in Hackney, then she is found brutally murdered. Meanwhile, Samson Segal, an unemployed thirty-something has taken to spying on his neighbours, particularly beautiful Gillian Ward...

In death, as in life, Elizabeth Hunter remains a callous, destructive vivisector of the lives around her, as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed in a Sydney suburb, and her housekeeper, nurses and solicitor dance attendance...

Pandora English is a go-between between the living and the dead, a gift that comes with frightening responsibility. In this story, Pandora must deal with a dress designing spider goddess, who seeks revenge when her designs are criticised.

Amelie, deaf since birth, was born to SS commander Gerhardt Schlick and his wife Kristine. Wanting to maintain his status as one of the Reich's genetically elite, he plots to dispose of Amelie and her mother. Kristine asks her friend Rachel for help.

Set in the future, this novel follows the life of mute teenager, Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia and her elevation to the position of First Lady.

Detective Inspector Sean Duffy is left cold by the murder of a wealthy couple. When their troubled son commits suicide, leaving a note that appears to take responsibility for the deaths, it seems the case is closed. But something doesn't add up...

High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered in nineteenth-century Manhattan

When Amy Carrell's wealthy boyfriend ends their relationship just before Christmas, she's left to nurse her broken heart alone. With nothing to lose, she replies to an advertisement requesting a companion for a mysterious 'Manhattan adventure'...

Mma Ramotswe is persuaded to take a holiday from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. But she finds it impossible to resist the temptation to follow the cases taken on by her business partner, Mma Makutsi, and to interfere in them...

June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head...