Leah Devereaux is a dead woman. At least, that's what the folks now running the Devereaux plantation tell her: Leah has been presumed dead for nineteen years - since the day that both her parents died. Leah, very much alive, has returned to South Carolina to uncover the untold story of her parents' deaths.

'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy.

Actor Gwydion Morgan's dramatic appearance at Jessica Mayhew's psychotherapy practice coincides with a turbulent time in her own life - her husband has just revealed that he's spent the night with a much younger woman. In her quest to help her client, Jessica finds herself becoming embroiled in the Morgans' poisonous family dynamic.

Lisa Gardnera serial killer is being closely watched by one young boy. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find.

Life in all its richness is reflected in this collection from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers. Love and loss, sex and death, and the great pleasures of food, wine and reading all populate its pages. In the end, though, it is a collection of stories about happiness, its circuitous routes, and the consequences when we fail in its pursuit.

An interwoven narrative of modern-day Paris.

For Cassandra, an editor, books are easy. It's the real life that's the challenge: it doesn't sit quietly and let itself be fixed. Right now Cassandra's life seems far too heavy on the suspense, while the romance is distinctly unconvincing. But that was before the murders started, and before she suspected her own name was on the hit list.

Talks about the way we live, as expressed in our relationship with food and gardens. This book celebrates the great oral tradition of cooks throughout time who pass on recipes out of the love of friends and food.