Collection: Fiction

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that develops leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls.

Impoverished sisters Gladys and Annie Barnes live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when a new landlord arrives

Sydney, 1942 - the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Through the eyes of Father Frank Darragh, a young priest, we see into the hearts of people fearing the end of life as we know it.

Most police duos run on trust, loyalty and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett's partner, Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but darkness and danger. And now Eden is about to head undercover to find three missing girls.

Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of a New York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotected single mother...

Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty allows a fiendish new criminal mastermind to rise to take his place.

RAF flyer Alan Duncan comes home to the ancestral manor in Australia to tragedy. The parlour maid, Jessie Proctor, had committed suicide. Then Alan comes across her photograph and in a shock of recognition, triggers a lifetime of haunting memories....

When four seconds of video is captured halfway around the world and anonymously transmitted to D.C., covert wheels are set in motion, and counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is tapped to undertake the deadliest assignment of his career.

Down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer and camerawoman. But when her group accidentally releases something truly evil into the world, they are forced to call in reinforcement...

Philadelphia is suffering from one of the country's worst murder rates. Homicide sergeant Matt Payne must navigate death threats and misdirected public outrage to follow a strange pattern of seemingly unrelated killings.