Under extreme duress, publican and ex-spy Mike Strange hands over vital coded information about an impending terrorist incident to Frank Sterling. Straight away, the private investigator is impelled into a fast-moving, unorthodox race against time. With diverse, eccentric and often unexpected support, can Sterling stay ahead of his relentless, violent pursuers and complete his latest mission?

The tranquility of a small southern town is shattered when one of its citizens is reported missing and a battered body is found in a wrecked car. Hasty investigations and judgment errors result in both cases being prematurely closed. Detective Lieutenant Lanny Boone is faced with the dilemma of following orders from his superiors and letting things lie, or of following his intuition and taking on the Dixie Mafia to find the killers. The only thing...

Clint rides to the mountain top to view the evening sky and learn if there are anysigns of trouble. There are. There will be blood. The predictions don't take long to prove correct - but what do they have to do with Clint and/or the comarca?

Bath, England. When his life drawing model disappears without trace, painter-sleuth Chris Honeysett uncovers evidence of a dangerous conspiracy. Henry Blinkhorn drowned when his boat capsized in the Severn estuary. So how come his photograph appears on the front cover of The Angler six years later? The insurers who paid out a small fortune on his death have asked private investigator Chris Honeysett to track down the elusive Mr Blinkhorn and prove...

Vacillating between the hate he'd nurtured all his life and the burgeoning wish to be the man his father never was, Acey decides to look at the evidence in the case against his father, Karl Tapp. What he finds is proof of full-blown incompetence, a suicidal old man and a killer who wants to put a son alongside his father in lockup.

On a bitterly cold night in midwinter a beautiful young woman throws herself off Chattanooga's Walnut Street Bridge. Harry Starke was there, on the bridge, and he want's to know why Tabitha Willard decided to kill herself. Was it his fault?"....she saw me, stopped running, put her hands to her mouth, looked desperately around, then turned, ran to the rail, and started to climb...."Tormented by guilt and the thought that he might have caused the girl's...

Lomax chases an accountant who has come back from the dead to blackmail his widow The plane went down outside Tucson, and all aboard were burned beyond recognition. The sole passenger was Martin Blyleven, an accountant employed by a Colorado televangelist with shady business partners, but the death was ruled an accident, and $400,000 in insurance money went to the widow. Four years later, she begins getting phone calls from a man claiming to be Martin....

Private investigator Jake Smith is sometimes a hero, sometimes vigilante, but always a thorn in the cops' side. His nemesis, Detective Max Marsh, Marshmallow, as Smith refers to him, is bent on driving him out of San Diego. With Andrew and Leslie Howell's remains discovered in their garden graves by their busy body neighbor, Jake inserts himself in the middle of the case, bringing Smith and Marsh to loggerheads. Hamilton-Adams Investigations does...

Sergio, head of the Bocas Town police, calls Clint. He says he has a problem. A dead drunk."Why call me about some drunk?" Clint asks."No. I mean a dead drunk. A body."

Clint is visiting friends in Culantro on his way to Quebrada Tula when Rigo, a student at the university, says his only problem lately is dead aunts. He is practicing English. Clint asks what could be the problem with dead ants? Sweep them out."What killed them? Poison?"Juan says they were all strangled."How do you strangle and ant?" Clint asked, then added, "Oh, shit "