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London, 1388. When the mythical Stone of Destiny disappears from the throne of England, the populace takes it as a sign that rebellion is near. Desperate, Richard calls in Crispin Guest to find the missing stone and uses Crispin's page Jack Tucker as leverage. Unless Crispin can find the stone in three day's time, Jack will hang for treason.

Sir William Cecil has a mission for Ursula Blanchard. She must visit group of recusant women led by Abbess Philippa Gould. They possess an ancient book that the Queen's advisor is eager to get hold of. But two of Sir William's previous emissaries vanished without trace in the search. What happened to them and will Ursula suffer the same fate?

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Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and Pot Noodles, has been spending holidays in the same Welsh seaside town for years. She loves the wet walks, she loves The Anchor pub, and most of all she loves the pub quiz. This year, following an act of raw creativity involving some cans of gold spray paint, Miyuki will take part in the most turbulent events the village has seen since tall Mr Hughes returned from the pub toilet without remembering to button...

When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the sleepy English village of Croxton Ferriers, Jack Haldean finds an odd clue at the scene of the crime: a black marble chess knight with crystal eyes. Is murder just a game? It could be - to a killer who calls himself The Chessman.

Jessica Lord is dismayed when she meets bestselling author Jivan Childering, he is arrogant and stand-offish. Later, their paths cross once more - and she begins to see a different side to this troubled man. Jivan is drawn to Jessica, but following a bitter divorce, he has vowed never to love again. Can Jessica break down his barriers?

17-year-old Linda Corbet is missing and Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate. The only clue she has is a fragment of a 17th century poem she finds in Linda's room. But from that one clue Jennie's investigations will lead her to a hidden world of privilege, violence and excess which lies behind Oxford's dreaming spires.

When private investigator Tess Grey accepts a commission to track down state witness Crawford Wynne, one of the few men still alive who can help the state nail a vicious drug lord, there's only one man she can turn to for help: renegade ex-con Nicolas Villere, known as Po. Po always gets his man - but he's never been teamed with a woman before.

A couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house: could this be the resting place of 14-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from the same garden two decades before? With a murder twenty years in the past, this is the coldest of cold cases. Most of the suspects are now dead too, and all passion is long spent. Or is it?

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1974. Foggy Moskowitz, a Jewish car thief on the run from Brooklyn authorities, is in Florida working for the Child Protective Service. For personal reasons. Searching for a missing child, snatched from hospital by her addict mother, Foggy finds the case takes an unexpected turn as he makes his way from seedy Fry's Bay to Indian Seminole swampland.

It was love at first sight for Antonia 'Toni' Ward and her fiance, Justin Metcalfe, but jealousy threatens to tear them apart. Can Justin really be trusted? And what about Aaron Osborn? Toni may only see him as a friend, but he desperately wants to take Justin's place - and will stop at nothing in his attempts to make Toni his own ...

Having completed her mission to silence an agency defector, CIA operative Cassie Bradbury finds herself cut adrift in Moscow, with no documents, no tickets and no identification. Hot on her trail are the Kremlin, the Russian Mafia, and Sean Ravensdale, the disgraced ex-CIA agent who's been sent to track her down.

Pet chef Kitty finds herself reluctantly hosting a new cooking show called 'The Pampered Pet'. While shooting the pilot, the show's producer is found in her office with a knife in her back - one of Kitty's knives, to be exact. The list of suspects is long and time is short. If Kitty can't find the killer soon, her own goose might be cooked...

Toby Clements lives in London where he reviews crime novels for a national newspaper, and where he keeps a who's who in crime fiction on his desk.