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The Chameleon is the hitman hired for the job and he is on the move. DCI Allison and Sergeant Stringer are frustrated when they arrest the wrong man. The Chameleon is a master of disguise with numerous identities at his disposal. Only two people are able to identify him, Chrissy Stephens and police psychic Holly.

Wales between the wars, a place of poverty and a world full of anguish. Yet, there is hope. Within family, within community and most of all in the brave heart of one young girl. Set in the lush Dulais Valley; Carrie is fated to a life of hardship and sorrow, but she grows stronger as she is forced to become a woman before her time. The hand she is dealt becomes a challenge and she refuses to surrender.

Carrie's life is turned upside down when the London Chest Hospital is bombed in the Blitz and it threatens to tear her from the slowly flowering love she has found in Michael's arms. After this horrific incident, her bravery is brought to the attention of the authorities. They contact her with a proposal, which drags her into the center of the conflict in Europe and out of the security of her home and family.

Oliver Twist has been rescued and is safe and well. Bill Sikes is dead. Fagin is in prison under sentence of death by hanging. His gang of pickpockets and thieves has been disbanded. One of the gang, Jack Dawkins, is in Newgate prison awaiting transportation to Australia. His crime? Theft of a silver snuffbox. What happens to him is the story of a young man trying his best to survive in the harshest of worlds. How does he fare?

British filmmakers Amy Wilde and Jon Curtis just want to make an entertaining documentary about Electra, a pop icon famous for her signing with strong opinions about capital punishment and the sale of land mines. Unfortunately, for Amy and Jon they’ve chosen the wrong singer at the wrong time. The Brandenberg Sect, a secret group of top Western politicians and businessmen decide Electra has to go. She is a thorn in the side of the establishment and her popularity is proving to be too dangerous for their future plans.

Amy and Jon are on the run in Croatia. They are desperate to reveal to the world the truth about pop icon Electra’s death in their explosive biopic and documentary. They have had their lives stolen. The Secret Service is after them, together with the police, and agents of the Brandenberg Sect who have fingers that reach to all corners of the globe.

For some, a life at sea is all they want. That’s certainly the case for Adam Barrie. Out there, among the waves, he has a peace he cannot find on land. When tragedy strikes his family, Adam’s commitment to them has to become his focus. For him, it’s family before everything else, and his inheritance proves to be the catalyst to a new life.

After witnessing the brutal death of his father, at the tender age of seven, by a band of smuggling cutthroats, Nathaniel Brookes swears to find his father’s killers. As a man he initially follows a medical career, but he turns his back on his comfortable life and dons the garb of a Riding Officer to fulfill his vow. Hated in all communities, ostracized, and friendless, he faces more than just his father's enemies. Little did Nathaniel expect, when taking up his duties to ride the dramatic Welsh coastline, that he would meet and fall in love with local beauty, Jenny Banwen.

Detective Chief Inspector Allison and Sergeant Mark Stringer have the chilling task of tracking down a serial killer who is terrifying a city with his bizarre and cold-blooded murders of innocent women. They are ordinary men with human frailties and too much to do. The psychological profile of the killer is meticulously pieced together to reveal a suave, sophisticated seducer of women. He uses his deadly charm and good looks to lure his victims to horrifying deaths.

A poignant heart-rending tale demonstrating that the power and passion of true love can conquer extreme adversity. A harrowing birth to a peasant woman working in the fields of repressive 1920’s China sees her discarded female child, Mai Lee, incarcerated in a brutal orphanage until, as a young adolescent she is transported to work in the brothels of Singapore.

Coppers overloaded with work are once again led down a path that twists and turns, bringing to light a female psychic, Holly, who has a physical and psychic connection with Tony. Holly lives through the new slayings at a huge cost to herself and when Tony’s mother recognizes she is being watched through Holly’s abilities she turns her evil eye on the psychic.

German armies once more march across Europe, and one small Welsh village is changed forever. Carrie has escaped the suffocating, unhealthy love of her brother. With her innate kindness and strength, she begins her new life in midwifery. But the shadows of war rise. She is sent first to Birmingham and then to London during the Blitz. Carrie is no stranger to tragedy, but her courage and self-sacrifice bond her tightly to new friends and old, helping to keep her safe in uncertain times. Love, laughter, and friendship abound, making her a force to be reckoned with and admired.

The thrilling sequel to Against the Tide, which was highly acclaimed by the Historical Novel Society, sees Brookes returning to ride again at the request of the King, when his friend and fellow rider Goliath comes back to England to seek his help. Aleka, Goliath’s wife is missing, stolen by barbaric slavers. Her father, the Governor of Sierra Leone has been alerted to this tragedy and is known to work tirelessly to stop this hideous trade.

Cornelius Phipps is a man caught in a web of despair. Utkena is a demon seeking vengeance. Sanjukta is a woman striving for justice. The moment she is born during a terrible storm, which also sees the death of her mother, Sanjukta's destiny is sealed. Half Native American Indian, she is given the gifts necessary to fight an evil created by the Nations but used by the White Man. Her life becomes a battlefield. Both in the Court House, where she fights for the rights of her people becoming a lawyer of renown, and in the spirit plane.

A woman witnesses from her bedroom window a violent assault on her elderly neighbor, and becomes embroiled in something much larger involving a criminal gang. They want her eliminated. DCI Allison has his work cut out as he tries to close his file on Kelland and Paulson, in the sex trafficking case, together with a number of other crimes linked to the OCG.

Thunder in the Sun is the fourth in the continuing Llewellyn family saga. Carrie, in her new role as district nurse, finds that she has far more to deal with than patients recovering from minor ailments. She takes charge of organizing a troop of evacuated children escaping the Blitz in London and finding them safe houses in which to stay. Some are lucky, but some are not, and Carrie’s life is flooded with incidents of cruelty, rape, and heart-wrenching drama.

The final and explosive conclusion to the Killing Me Softly trilogy, which completes the story of serial killer Tony Clifton and his abhorrent and evil mother, Grace. Allison and Stringer have an even heavier caseload, which varies from a hardworking Asian family being targeted by murderous bully boy thugs to the repercussions from the escape of an insane killer to a young reporter being stalked by a lunatic.

Teacher, Tara Lomas just wants to spend time with her husband, Steve but he is intent on working hard to secure them a bright future in order to raise a family. Feeling bored and unloved Tara is persuaded to try a little social networking. Once she embarks on setting up a profile on Friend Finder she soon becomes addicted and hunts for her old netball coach Lee Powell.

A dismembered body with no head, hands, or feet turns up in a suitcase at New Street Station. The only witness to the suitcase being deposited is a young runaway, Katy, who relies on selling the Big Issue to survive. Some of the female sellers are, themselves, running scared, and Katy sees more than is safe for her.DCI Allison and Sergeant Mark Stringer are on the case. As usual, they have too much to do and not enough officers. Little do they know that this investigation will uncover a criminal gang involved in something much bigger.

Book five in the DCI Allison detective series, set in the Midlands, continues on from where the last one, Would I Lie to You, finished. Intimate and realistic, listeners will be on the shoulders of the police as they are followed into every corner of their lives, which shows that work pressures don’t end at the station door. If you are a fan of gritty thrillers like Missing, then this series is for you.