Myrmidon Books imprint: 24 books

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD BEST THRILLER OF 2011'I turned thirty-seven that summer, older than Dante when he toured Hell, but only by a couple of years.' Life couldn't be better for David Albo, an associate professor of English at a small mid-western university. He lives in...

Ten years ago, sleepy Shiloh Springs was shaken as five teenagers were clubbed and shot to death and a sixth left for dead. But now the killer’s conviction has been overturned after allegations that his rights were violated on his arrest. Rick Trueblood is a careworn private investigator working for...

The second instalment in the chronicles of Isambard Smith - Captain in the service of the British Space Empire - and of his android pilot Polly Carveth and loyal and noble friend the psychopathic alien headhunter, Suruk. Tea... a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis...

Jim Reaper started to plan a murder as thousands began to die in a natural disaster that almost killed the world...Lonely and embittered ex-cop, Jim Reaper, has nothing much to live for. But then he learns that the man who raped his fourteen-year-old daughter is out of prison after serving only three...

Overworked, over budget and just so not over him! Kate would like an engagement ring from Steve but instead he's lumbered them with a thirteenth renovation project, and doing up Myrtle Cottage disturbs a ghost from the English Civil War who has romance troubles of her own.

SHORTLISTED FOR COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE AFRICA. In the mid 1950s, lonely middle-aged spinster, Phyllis, has spent much of her adult life caring for her ailing mother. On her mother's death, she takes a position as a matron at an exclusive Cape Town boarding school. She begins to keep a journal of...

Using characters known to recorded history, including one to become the real Sheriff of Nottingham, Elizabeth Ashworth weaves a tale of loves lost and found during the exile of Richard the Lionheart. Young Richard Fitz-Eustace's return from Palestine is far from joyous. Damned by leprosy he must bid...

Harmattan (from an Arabic word meaning destructive wind ) tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in a remote village in the Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, Haoua has benefitted from a stable home life and a loving and attentive mother. She enjoys working and playing...

"I'm 18, going on death - and this is the age of terror." Months since the virulent flu-like pandemic SuperSARS wiped out 98% of the world's population, Britain has become a place of chaos, carnage and terror for the few survivors. After its bloody confrontation with the murderous paramilitaries of 'Muldane's...

Stoical and industrious Carrie and carefree and vivacious May lose both home and livelihood when their Leeds pub is sold out from under them to make way for the coming of the railway. They head for Harrogate to find work and lodging in the spa town's burgeoning hotel trade. But the sisters fall prey...