ulia Franklin is an international concert pianist who is losing her nerve. Thousands of adoring fans pack the concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic. But Julia can’t shake off her nightmares or the fear that her career may be over. What Julia doesn’t know is that stage fright is the least of her problems. She has no idea that she is heir to a 200-year-old bequest worth a billion dollars - enough to bankrupt America's oldest bank when the bequest it holds in trust matures.Miles Bartholemew, son of the president of Bartholemew Equity and Trust, is trying to atone for his wild youth by working in the public defender’s office in Sacramento, California, helping kids get off crime charg...

Rosa Daniels has spent years living down the reputation of her father, Ferdy Daniels - a legendary con-artist living out his days in Switzerland. When Ferdy dies, alone and penniless, Rosa becomes the target of KGB and British intelligence chiefs, determined to learn the cold-war secret they are convinced he passed on to her through the manuscript of a book, Conjuring For Beginners. To stay alive, Rosa must unravel Ferdy’s web of deceits and intrigues herself and decipher the few traces Ferdy left behind. But to understand her father’s scams, she must learn to become as quick-witted and cunning as Ferdy.

 

 

Hard–nosed journalist Tony Gabriel inherits the research papers and books of a long-dead Cambridge historian - and a human skull. Tony uses his years as a reporter to investigate this mysterious legacy - and is stunned by what he uncovers.The Chadwick Foundation is a wealthy and politically powerful institution whose beliefs in the paranormal both repel and attract him. Are they just rich, powerful people playing an elaborate game, or have they truly gained powers to penetrate the mystery of the future?Eve Canning is the keeper of The Foundation's secrets, a powerful woman whose regal beauty turns Tony’s search for the truth into a very personal quest - and his life and beliefs upside do...

Every story in this book is true - except one. Some tell of crimes that have gone unpunished by the law. Some are crimes against laws that are unwritten. And some are crimes that exist only in the mind. This collection of short stories covers a multitude of sins.

Major Sally Honeychurch has spent two years as an agent behind enemy lines. Now the war is over, the women who risked their lives are no longer needed. Sally is back in civvy street, haunted by the French Resistance lover who died in her arms. When terrorists smuggle an atomic bomb into London, the Head of MI6 urgently summons her for one more mission. Sally has inside knowledge few possess. She was there when the first atom bomb was assembled and detonated. Sally is the only woman among hundreds of soldiers and intelligence agents hunting the terrorists. And she uncovers a clue to their identity that will rock the establishment to its foundations. To save London, she must not only track dow...