Dennis Butcher

A man is found hanging in the woods. Everything points to suicide but DCI Banks delves into the superficially straightforward death to discover a murder that has its roots in post-war Berlin.  Book 18 of series.

This is the story of Jacob Cullen, first son of a gentleman in Civil War England. After his family becomes destitute he becomes the servant of another well to do family. Later he becomes a soldier in the service of the New Model Army and finally has a progressive decline into madness. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

When an American aid worker is brutally murdered in Serbia his grandfather, Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on justice and revenge. He employs Cal Dexter, ex-Special Forces, to track down the killer. But Cal's investigations lead him into the world of international terrorism.

It is 1929 and young George Ginder is desperate to exchange the toils of teaching in Bradford for a job in the land of his heroes: the Wild West of America. So he buys a third - class ticket and sets off on a journey from Liverpool that will eventually bring him to Palisades, South Dakota.

In Granada the murder of a Muslim girl is the precursor to terrorist outrage. Max Romero finds himself co-opted into the anti-terrorist operation based in the city.

In order to write a feature about a remote research station in Antarctica, journalist Michael Wilde joins a diving expedition which uncovers two bodies encased in ice. When they are brought to the surface and the ice begins to thaw the bodies start to reawaken and Michael is drawn into a story that started in the battlefields of the Crimea.

After the seventh and last crusade a young Spanish nobleman returns a broken man and reveals his experiences to Brother Lucas, who has been given the task of exorcizing his tortured soul by The Inquisition.

Danny's mum was always checking up on him so he invented a best friend to keep his mum happy. When his brother, Tid, started telling scary stories about 'Wolf', Danny decided that he too was an invention. But was he?

In 1540 Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is trying to keep a low profile and concentrate on his legal practice. His involvement in a prominent murder case brings him back into Cromwell's sights, and he is given a new assignment by the most devious politician in England. Book 2 of series.

John Simpson is one of the country's most respected journalists who has reported for the BBC on, and from, trouble spots all over the world. In his latest volume of memoirs he looks at his own childhood, and tells the strange and sometimes painful story of his family.

Four sons reveal the bonds that exist between themselves and their fathers. X rated, contains offensive language.

The first novel about Nicolas Ramage, a lowly lieutenant in the navy commanded by Nelson. The book charts the adventures on the high seas as Nelson battles with Napoleon's fleet.

Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories of recent decades and has fronted television news and documentary programmes for the BBC. In 1984 his report on the famine in Africa sent shock waves around the world, and as a direct consequence Live Aid was born.

In Autumn 1541, Henry VIII and his new queen, Catherine Howard, make a royal Progress to the North, ending in York. Matthew Shardlake and Jack Barak are already in the city, on a mission for Archbishop Cranmer. When a glazier is murdered Shardlake finds himself in close, but dangerous, proximity to the Royal Court. Book 3 of series.

For over half a century the beautiful Temple of Apollo has been in the care of the beekeeper Gabrilis, an old friend of Hermes Diaktoros. Then, not long after Gabrilis has signed away the land, Diaktoros discovers his friend's battered body by the roadside, and finds himself the prime suspect.

When Inspector Wallander and his team are called to investigate the disappearance of a respectable wife and mother they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade members of the South African secret service who are determined to halt Nelson Mandela’s rise to power.