The Stone WifeJust as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is shot dead. Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad, soon finds himself sharing an office with the stone wife until he is ejected. To his extreme annoyance the lump of stone appears to exert a malign

Concluding the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy

You can't trust your own memories

presumably

Romeo and Juliet

The second thrilling instalment of Adam Simcox's 'wildly entertaining' (Adam Hamdy) THE DYING SQUAD series

Hours later

eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car

a chinking shower of rubbled cement

Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse

Will he survive the battle to be with her once more

Until the day she hears a scream and the temptation to investigate proves irresistible

a barrister