Collection: Fiction

In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters.

A pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.

Who does the US government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution and discretion? Meet former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional ability.

Carlotta is happily engaged, and the wedding plans are coming together. Maybe Chris doesn't make her heart race every time she sees him, but you can't have that feeling for ever. Can you? Then, on a trip to Seville, Carlotta runs into Luke Evans...

Mrs. Palfrey had come to London, after her husband died, because that was 'where it's happening.' In London there would be plays to see, friends to visit, her adorable grandson at the archives of the British Museum. It would be a lark.

AD 235: Set in third century Rome, a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war. A surprise attack and the brutal murder of the Emperor Alexander and his mother ends the Severan dynasty and shatters four decades of Roman certainty.

Erin Granger is thrust back into the folds of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ to protect the world from an enemy of immense and terrifying power. But the enemy also seeks the boy believed to be an angel given flesh.

Its the summer of 1940 and Europe is in the grip of the Nazi war machine. Jack Teller arrives in neutral Lisbon on the arm of international screen legend Lili Sterne, to help her search for her childhood friend, Eva Lange...

Christopher Bright is a well-respected conservation architect, good neighbour and friend. He has a devoted wife, two talented children and an old Rover. Life is orderly, yet an unresolved question has haunted him: who was his birth father?

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women, two hundred years apart, who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away....