Human Horrors

1976. The hottest summer in living memory. A little girl thinks she sees a dead body in a deserted gallery at Kew Gardens. But did she? Forty years on, Stella Darnell investigates a chilling new case which takes her deep into the past, the world of botany, and an unsolved murder.

Mike saw what he saw. But his son Jack denies it. They were playing the hiding game when his daughter Susie disappeared. The search party gives up. But Mike knows she isn’t dead.

Crossing the tumultuous territories of time and change, these poems confront defining moments of loss and death as troubling abuses of the past bleed together.

From the archives of the News Of The World Sunday Magazine, comes a fascinating compendium of real-life murders fuelled passion, lust and jealousy. Jean Ritchie explores some of the most brutal stories behind the chilling truth — that women are more likely to be murdered by a partner or ex-partner than a stranger.

Separate arrivals at the abbey arouse Brother Cadfael’s suspicions: a guileless, young Benedictine with an impish intelligence and a bawdy French troubadour with his seraphic— voiced servant girl. When rising flood waters subside, Brother Cadfael discovers both a robbery and a dead body — but are the two connected?

Juliet Yates Marrs is a heroine with a heart-wrenching history in this engaging family saga exploring the way people live and fitfully cope.

Murder in an ancient Samaritan community. Hundreds of millions of government dollars in (or out of) the control of a dead man. But where’s the money? Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must solve the murder and find the money before Palestinian aid is cut.

Twenty years ago, five children escaped a two-week captivity… but six were taken. To honour their deceased friend, an annual candle-it vigil is held, with memories firmly left unspoken. But this year, a young girl’s abduction leads DCI Dawson to investigate the truth about ‘The Bad Place’.

In a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort, fifty-year-old, teddy-bear-hugging, spinster Marion endeavours to shut out the shocking secret that her overbearing brother John keeps in their cellar.

From niche brothels in Oxford and Soho, to the inner sanctum of a sadistic Russian people— trafficker, the trail of two dead students leads DCI Hanlon deeper into danger — until she becomes the killer's next target.

Muna's desperate and heart-wrenching battle for survival is a true story which claimed the lives of her mother and sister.

When a local hero is found murdered, all fingers point to the new guy. But what's the real story here?

Is violence ever justified? Even when defending liberal views from extremists? What lessons can we learn from what went on at Charlottesville?

Not convinced 'fake news' is a thing. Think again.

A campus shooting — told from multiple perspectives.

A Jewish doctor faces up to his Nazi collaboration past when someone unexpected reappears in his life.

Two teens. One mystery. West Virginia. Says it all really.

Not just an account of what happened then; but also of the horrors that came after.

The criminal underbelly of Renaissance Italy, documented by a leading historian. Crime, punishment, corruption, murder, all neatly juxtaposed the cultural 'enlightenment'.

When a senator's daughter — an investigative journalist — is found murdered, fingers point all the way to the top.