John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in "A Darker Shade of Blue" he has collected together some of his very best writing. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of Eas[...]

Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer - charismatic, provocative and in[...]

Features an excellent selection of modern words and expressions, clear and comprehensive, designed to enable students to read the average Arabic newspaper or book.[...]

A savage assault with a scalpel leaves Dr Tim Fletcher's body lying badly slashed in a deserted walkway. He is the first victim in a series of assaults on hospital staff and, as panic grips the city, Charlie Resnick is faced with a mass of clues that seem to lead nowhere.[...]

A story featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. It takes him back ten years, to a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face-to-face with a frenzied sociopath, and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover.[...]

Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it? Forty-eight hours. If you don't find them in that, likely they're sodding dead...' A cabbie's just been beaten up, there's a drunk and disorderly in the interview room and a possible child abuser on the way in. Nothing unusual there, then, just a[...]

Lorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on his patch, even is it's only for a matter of hours. Heartsore and worl[...]

When the take-down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch, and her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home...Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder's fears[...]

Stephen Bryan is found murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter. But doubts are soon raised. Could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and myst[...]

Two teenage girls are victims of a bloody Valentine's Day shooting; one survives, the other is less fortunate...It's one of a rising number of violent incidents in the city, and DI Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead [...]

Lorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on his patch, even if it's only for a matter of hours.[...]

When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime team. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crim[...]

When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong.[...]