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It's 1970s London....When his firm's next robbery goes badly wrong, Glaswegian Colin Grant knows it's time to move on - fast. In Africa, Colin finds a new way of life and new friends. But, as he soon discovers, it's a land of unbelievable and almost irresistible riches. And all he has to do is work out how to fly a planeload of gold out of the country without anyone - especially Major Judas Akaba - finding out.

Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possesion of the dead spy's secert soon begins and threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for his upstairs neighbour, Sonia.

It's summer in Cambridge, and the half-consumed body of a young man sticks out grotesquely from the mouth of a shredding machine! Does this death mark the beginning of an unprecedented crime wave in this well-heeled community...or something else?

In June 1973 the bodies of three missing teenagers were found on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And when his father was arrested for the murders, 11-year-old Miller McAllister's life fell apart. Now, 32 years later, Douglas Mcallister has died in prison, and Miller returns home after decades of self-imposed exile. The rest of his family has always claimed Douglas' innocence, while Miller has always maintained his guilt.

Years after Alice Draper's death her murderer remains unpunished, and six of her lovers still have their lives blighted by suspicion. Exiled to the seaside town of Eddathorpe, DI Robert Graham expects to have lots of time to brood about his failed marriage and his formerly promising career. Instead, he finds himself drawn into the Draper case, and unwittingly takes the lid off of a surprising variety of scandals, some of which involve senior policemen.

As the ship docked in Bombay,the shocking news of the rising by the Indian mutineers and their massacire of women, children, and civilians reached Anthony Morgan and his company. Even so,they were hardly prepared for what they now faced.Morgan himself has another quest. On discovering that the son he had fathered,his child's mother and her husband,Morgan's old sergeant, are captives up in the hills, he is determined to rescue them. A gripping tale of a soldier torn between orders and honour.

Nostradamus wrote 1000 prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing verses? This mystery drives two very different men. Adam Sabir is a writer desperate to revive his flagging career; Achor Bale is a member of an ancient secret society dedicated to the "Three Antichrists" foretold by Nostrodamus: Napoleon, Adolf Hitler - and "one still to come". As Sabir is drawn into the hidden world of France's gypsies, Bale is on his trail. A terrifying hunt begins...

The rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley has turned sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment. Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick ceremony.

Diving for plunder in the Caribbean, Hector Lynch and his companions are spotted by a Spanish ship. Escaping capture by burning the vessel's sails - an act of piracy - they head for Tortuga, where Hector's wife Maria awaits. He longs for a better life for them both, on the right side of the law. But the crew run into Laurens de Graff - a renowned mercenary captain now in command of a royal French frigate - and after fleeing his clutches, they are cast away on a tiny desert island, Salt Tortuga.

Research biologist, Piers Egerton, has been working on a top-secret project for a number of years and has finally realised it is something he wants no part of. But the people he works for think he knows too much. Lee Barber is a train driver, whose career is seemingly ruined through one simple error. Frustrated and desperate, the two strangers are thrown into each other’s paths at a pivotal moment. As Thames Valley Serious Crimes Squad, headed by Mike Yeadings, investigates the disappearance of one of the men, grim secrets of national importance emerge.

There isn't much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts. It is a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where burglar alarms are typically set off only by foraging wildlife. So when Edward Iman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel Security, is alerted by a late-night alarm from the house of Doyle Cutler, one of his wealthiest clients, Edward thinks little of it - until a local student, Mary Steckl, claims that she was sexually assaulted at Cutler's house that same night.

Ray Greenland is an exemplary family man, a Thames River pilot who guides others to safety, while his wife Lily runs a dating agency, navigating others to happy futures. What none of those around him know, including Lily and their children, is that Ray's life is not his own. An act committed when he was twelve has meant that Ray must live under a false identity for the rest of his life.

But his slice of heaven turns to hell when 14 year old Charlotte, goes missing while walking home from a friend's house. Can he trust DCI Jack Finch and DS helen Wyatt to catch the right man, or should he take matters into his own hands to ensure revenge?

A young boy is hiding for his life having witnessed a murder. Thirty years later, that boy, Jack Renoir, is in the business of dicovering other people's secrets, yet keeping his own. Renoir is forced to confront the horrors of his past in order to ensure a future with the woman he loves.

A new life in Wales has not turned out to be the rural fantasy that social worker Jess imagined when she left London for a simpler, more fulfilling future. And it seems there's no escape from evil - even in such a beautiful landscape.

Dublin. Joshua Boyce watches a jewellers as he plans a job; Dixie Payton desperate for cash attempts a mugging; DI Synott calls on a rape suspect, convinced of his guilt; gangland boss Lar MacKendrick is getting back into shape after brothers Jo-Jo's murder. Criminals and police each have their own code, with both sides resorting to desperate measures as a means to an end.

In the last year, Mel Stenning's seven-year-old daughter, Poppy, has had to get used to a new step-father, a new baby, and a new home. During a game of hide and seek, Poppy disappears, and Mel's new husband is suspected of having something to do with it. Mel also discovers that, the day before, the police had accused him of murder.

The Count and Bonnie played their game of love, lust, and power to the very limits of fantasy. When the fantasy became real, however, and the number of players grew, the sedate town of Rawley was shaken to its very roots: because when you lost the Game, you lost everything.

Tom Fletcher has left the police force, and its cold outside. Working as a P.I. in Cambridge, he is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Tom's inquiries begin to spiral into very darker conspiracies. How is an American company involved in an officially-suppressed story from World War II? Where is the US Air Force base that seems to be the key to a centuries-old mystery?

Christmas: a time of peace and goodwill. Oh no it isn't, thinks Detective Paul Banham, called out to a suspicious death at the local theater, right in the middle of the pantomime. Was it an accident - or murder? On the other side of rivalries, grudges and illicit liaisons begin to surface. A second death leaves Banham in no doubt that there's a murderer on the loose - but the panto is sold out and the show must go on.