LONDON, 1942. A killer going by the name of 'Crimson Jack' is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation Scotland Yard turn to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely he is the one man who can sift fact from legend and track down Crimson Jack before he completes his tally of death. As Holmes and the faithful Watson tread the blacked out streets of London, death waits just around the corner. Inspired by the classic film series from Universal Pictures starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which updated Sherlock Holmes to the 1940s, this is a brand new adventure from the acclaimed author of The Thirty-One Kings, Castle Macnab and the Artie Conan Doyle Mysteries.

Frank McNeill, a young architect and grandson of a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, finds his family's security as well as his honor and loyalty challenged by an evil far beyond his imagination or control; an evil orchestrated by an unlikely nemesis, Ishmael, a foreign exchange student in Frank's university crowd.

Ishmael, the heir apparent to the Islamic tribe of Kuhmaad is the only one who knows of Frank's apparent murder of a prostitute during his graduation party. Frank's panic to conceal this act forces him to supply information to Ishmael for his hired terrorist so he can infiltrate the ranks grandfather Jasper McNeill's International Gateway to Freedom project and make the kill. Ishmael is unaware that the man has contracts to eliminate all the high profile international board members including the United States President. Frank realizes too late that he alone must avert the horror he has unleashed.

Lost Marsh ---- the second novel in the continuing saga of Cole Damon. Once again, our hero finds himself involved in a web of romance, adventure, hilarious intrigue and mystery. Cole is just a man who is quite content to live his life in a laid back peaceful manner. He is happy to let the fast paced world in which we live just pass him by. A house full of high energy teenagers ---- a delightfully pregnant wife ---- a cantankerous mother in law ---- the local bad guy ---- his ex wife ---- a gorgeous she-devil ---- a fanatical mayor ---- a very special aunt and uncle ---- a best friend ---- all make sure his life is anything but quiet and peaceful. Cole is constantly up to his elbows with problems and special situations, the kind that drives us all crazy in our everyday lives. Most of which are humorous and harmless ---- until he makes a discovery. Our hero makes a discovery that will turn his world upside down. He makes a discovery so hideous and gruesome, that it threatens to totally consume his sanity. It takes all his courage and inner strength to face this horrible twist of fate. Sometimes the lessons we learn in life give us more knowledge than we really want. The question is can we handle this knowledge, and what do we do with it. It is in this sense that Cole is of a special caliber. He finds himself responding to his twist of fate with the knowledge of knowing he is in a situation way over his head. He knows his peaceful little existence is over, but he cannot turn his back on fate. He has to face it head on.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE 2018 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER WINNER, NUCLEUS. Can a ruthless spy ring change the course of war? In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . . On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie? For readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and William Boyd, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements. Praise for RORY CLEMENTS 'A dramatic, twisty thriller' DAILY MAIL 'Dramatic...pacy and assured' Daily Mail 'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph

A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ... Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the train applies her make up in a ritual he now knows by heart. He's never dared to strike up a conversation . . . but maybe one day. Then one evening, on the late train to Gipsy Hill, the woman invites him to take the empty seat beside her. Fiddling with her mascara, she holds up her mirror and Gary reads the words 'HELP ME' scrawled in sticky black letters on the glass. From that moment, Gary's life is turned on its head. He finds himself on the run from the Russian mafia, the FSB and even the Metropolitan Police - all because of what this mysterious young woman may have witnessed. In the race to find out the truth, Gary discovers that there is a lot more to her than meets the eye . . . Readers love Alan Johnson and The Late Train to Gipsy HIll 'A fast-moving plot ... expertly told. The fact it comes from the pen of a former Home Secretary makes the rich security detail all the more powerful' Alastair Campbell 'Espionage, the Russian Mafia and a gorgeous female on a train with a deadly secret' Fiona Phillips 'Johnson's writing style is easy, relaxed, self-deprecating . . . impressive' Observer 'Johnson writes wonderfully' Telegraph 'This boy can write . . .' The Spectator

In this high-powered, high-octane international thriller, Barry Koch brings his gripping characters to life in this riveting and poignant story-telling. Filled with political intrigue of the highest order, your heart will race when you follow CIA agent Tyler Cahill in his quest to find the terrorists responsible for hijacking fifteen billion dollars worth of drugs from the DEA. The global conspiracy threatens to spiral out of control forcing Tyler to do what he does best-ignoring all the rules and finishing the job his way. Finishing the job means killing his way to the top. He's on the edge, he knows it and decides this has to be his final mission. His path is fraught with cartel kingpins, reptilian henchman and rival assassins. The treachery knows no boundaries as evil villains try to kill a man who simply refuses to die. His motivation and inspiration come in the form of a beautiful woman, the passionate woman he walked away from years ago. Can he regain his only true love? Can he save the world? You'll sit on the edge of your seat cheering him on with every new page as Koch redefines the concepts of action and romance.

After a concerned citizen comes forward with evidence of corruption within the New Orleans Criminal Sheriffs Department, Sheriff Ellis Grayden enlists the help of his best friend Danny Henderson, to help flush out whomever it is.

When a wealthy young man is found dead on the New Orleans Lakefront, with a suitcase full of cash, and a body in the trunk of his car, Ellis and Danny discover a connection between the dead man, and the corruption investigation within the Sheriff's Department, and are unknowingly drawn into a sinister scheme to steal a powerful piece of military hardware from the United States government.

During the course of the investigation, Ellis will indeed find out who is corrupt, and who is not. A revelation that might kill him. While Danny will come face to face with a dangerous figure from his past, whom he believed to be dead. Setting the stage for a meeting between the two of them that may very well kill both of them, and destroy all that they hold dear.

Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of unprecedented security breaches... and now his neighbor on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The only thing keeping him sane is the hunch that there's something not quite right about the nervous young man several rows ahead - a hunch that is confirmed when August watches him throw away directions to an old European cemetery seconds before being detained by Turkish police. A reckless August decides to go to the cemetery, where he meets a mysterious figure from the dark heart of the Islamic State and quickly finds himself drawn into a shadowy plot to murder an Iranian scientist in Istanbul. But nothing is what it seems, and before long August realises he has gone too far to turn back. As he struggles to break free from the clutches of Islamic State and play off British intelligence against their Turkish counterparts, he will find his resourcefulness, ingenuity and courage tested to the very limit of what he can endure. The second novel in a trilogy about loyalty and betrayal in the modern world, How to Betray Your Country is an authentic thriller about the thin line between following your conscience and following orders.

Drew Phillips is a modern day prophet whose only desire is to travel from town to town in his crusades helping people and healing the sick. He had no idea that when he called a beautiful young cancer victim forward for healing that it would change his life forever. Sam Hogue was the youngest Assistant Director in the history of the C.I.A. and he had just been handed the job of stopping an assassination attempt against the President. He knew was this was not a group of loose knit amateurs but professionals, well funded and better connected politically than he was. As you read this story you will see how time and fate twist these two very different men together. Drew refuses to work for the C.I.A. until Sam reaches into his bag of "Dirty Tricks" and forces the issue. When Drew decides to use his calling as a prophet to save the life of the President, his heart starts pumping red white and blue and not even Sam was ready for what Drew would see Who would have ever suspected that the wealthiest oil Sheik in the world would have such a diabolical plot that if not stopped it would forever change the fate of the world and launch "The Caliphate." As you read this book don't be surprised if you feel this is non-fiction. Some of the early edits were done by government employees and retired military officers and they were shaken by the elements of truth found within the pages. I will let you decide what is fiction and what is not.

An Islamic Bedouin prince... a Catholic British-American... One shackled to the past, the other struggling for a future. From a peaceful bedroom community nestled beneath the snow-capped mountains in Montana, to the dissident Saharan badlands deep within tribal territory, comes a provocative drama of conflicting love, lust, honor and betrayal that unravels the unique, collision-bound destinies of two extraordinary young men and the adventurous women who dare to love them. Intrigue, tragedy and obsessive desires of the flesh and heart provide the powder for this explosive, politically flavored love story that slams together the Moroccan Crown, the United States CIA, Algerian-based Polisario and centuries-old archenemies: the Kahan Abdah and the Beni Sair, the two largest and most feared desert tribes in North Africa. As colorful and intricate as an exotic Moroccan carpet... Delicious characters impossible to forget...

It's been three years since Germany's unconditional surrender, and United States Army Sergeant Rich Hammond remains on duty after originally being drafted in 1942. Exploiting the divisions between East and West Germany, Hammond runs a profitable black market business for drugs, cigarettes, porn-even Spam-as goods remain sparse. But Hammond's dealings make him a perfect target for the Russians in their search for spies.

With tensions between the United States and Russia escalating, Hammond is blackmailed into supplying seemingly mundane information. It's a role that suits him, at least while he's still stationed in Germany. When Hammond is shipped back to the States, the stakes begin to rise. The Russians want Hammond as a stateside operative, but Hammond wants that part of his life left in Europe. Unfortunately, he can't shake it off.

Only slightly behind Hammond on his trail of treason is Carl Foreman, an officer serving in Army Counterintelligence. As Foreman begins to rise through the ranks, he puzzles together pieces of Hammond's deceptions, even as the trail just seems to become more and more confusing.

With the twists and turns of this spy game ever more entangling, discover if Hammond is able to keep Foreman at arm's length-or if the spy will ultimately meet his demise.