Product Description: Rats’ Nest - a ghost story Long, shimmering hair extensions are in. The blondest, silkiest and most expensive type of all is known as Russian Virgin. Mandy Cost is a beautiful young woman who has come to London for one thing: fame...read more

Product Description: Laura and Owen's new home should be lovely. But soon after moving into the secluded cottage on the edge of the Peak District, Laura starts to hear faint snatches of birdsong. Her husband, wrapped up in his job, is rarely at home. Nervous and confused, Laura cannot decide whether the noise is real - or is coming from inside her head...read more

Product Description: Seventh in the critically-acclaimed DI Spicer series. Out walking with his family in the local park, Jon Spicer’s life is shattered forever. The dog – aggressive and huge - appears from nowhere. At first, Jon assumes the attack was random...read more

Product Description: In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired Law Lord is brutally murdered, while in rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning. Promoted to Greater Manchester Police’s Counter Terrorism Unit, Detective Constable Iona Khan’s first case appears to be a trivial use of false identity regarding a Sri Lankan student asking suspicious questions about Manchester’s tunnel system...read more

Product Description: "A persuasive, original plot. Realism about the underside of modern life is combined with psychological insight in an excellent thriller."―Jessica Mann, Literary Review The deliberate torching of a church creates outrages across Manchester, and when a charred corpse and satanic symbols are found in the smoking ruins, detective Jon Spicer and the city’s Major Incident Team are called in...read more

The Commonwealth Games are coming to town and the city is alive with possibilities. Caught up in the commercial feeding frenzy is Tom Benwell, account manager at an advertising firm. The pressure is getting to Tom - too many deals to make and lies to tell, and the passion for his job is waning.

From the author of KILLING THE BEASTS comes the second novel in a compelling new series set in Manchester, starring detective Jon Spicer

When a woman is found on the moors with her throat ripped out, Detective Inspector Jon Spicer is called in to investigate

Product Description: The complicated interface between economic change in developing countries and human health is still too little understood. While the World Bank continues to impose economic structural adjustment programs, and now health sector reforms, policy makers have little knowledge of their actual effects on health...read more

Product Description: "A gritty, suspense-filled first novel . . . here is a new crime writer who really knows his stuff—a compulsive and compelling read."--Publishing News “Simms’ fresh approach, and the way the story weaves between three viewpoints, makes this one of the most promising debuts in crime for some time...read more

Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm, but he dreams of a life in the army, despite the fact his numerous applications have been rejected. Then one day a mysterious visitor arrives and sees Rubble and his ability to kill without compunction. Soon Rubble is employed on a sinister secret project.