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A group of strangers pitching up on a Cotswold caravan site is looking for rest and relaxation but instead encounters starvation, sleep deprivation, dehydration, motor bikers, drunken yummy-mummies, the police, shredded feet, unexpected nakedness, curries, the great loo run, and a line dancing barbecue. Oh, and the creepy guy in a tent at the bottom of the field. It's a camping trip like no other and it will change all their lives.

Trixie was within yards of her mother and other shoppers in a busy supermarket, yet no one witnessed her disappearance. Trixie had died within hours of being taken, her body discovered two days later.

Jasper Munroe has it all. Good looks, a cult social media following, and a dad who just happens to be one of the most powerful billionaires in the country. With such power and wealth behind him, Jasper has seen numerous accusations of sexual assault fall by the way side. Until now....

Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues, and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to defect to the West.

Hotelier Stephen Sanderson is dead. Stabbed after hosting a police officer’s wedding. Chief Superintendent David Ashworth is a family friend of the victim and assigns the case to Meredith. Sanderson had a past that the family would rather keep quiet if it’s not related to his murder, but Sanderson’s life style provides the police with many suspects, including some in his own family.

Five million alive. Three million dead. That is the contract put on Sam Pope's head by the vengeful Dana Kovalenko, the sister of crime boss Andrei Kovalenko, who Sam killed three years ago.

After the shocking conclusion of The Time Hunters and the Wraith’s Revenge, Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy embark on a time hunt for the Odin Horn, a legendary artifact believed to be the drinking vessel used by Odin in Valhalla.

Eight years before he was being hunted by the Metropolitan Police, Sam Pope was hunted in the heart of the Amazon. As part of Project Hailstorm, Sam is sent into the rainforest with three other soldiers, to rescue two hostages. But as the rain falls and the bullets fly, they soon realize that their mission isn't one of extraction. It's one of survival.

After a mission in Afghanistan goes wrong, highly decorated sniper Sam Pope finds himself trapped behind enemy lines. Injured and abandoned, Sam is taken in by a local doctor, in a town under the threat of a local terrorist cell. As they close in, Sam must fight not just for his own survival but for the survival of the doctor and his family. Set 10 years before his war against organized crime, experience Sam Pope's fight for justice turn into a fight for survival.

After stepping back into his war on organised crime, Sam Pope travels to East Anglia. Following the path of an illegal firearm, Sam sets his sights on the person flooding the streets with guns and drugs. Slaven Kovac. A ruthless ex-mercenary with a brutal stranglehold on the weapon's trade, Kovac is on the cusp of removing his benefactor and ascending to the throne as one of the most powerful criminals in the UK. As he and Sam prepare to go to war, an undercover police officer finds himself on the front line, and in a desperate situation.

Lucy James goes out to celebrate the end of her final exams at college. It’s a decision she soon comes to regret, because next day, she has to attend an important interview, but she can’t remember why. Having recently passed the stringent vetting procedure for a top recruitment agency, she thinks she is probably meeting a prospective employer. Or is it yet another member of the agency? Deciding to wing it, she turns up and meets Gloria.

The Time Hunters and the Wraith’s Revenge is the sixth book in The Time Hunters Saga. After a happy, uneventful year, Becky and Joe Mellor’s world is thrown into chaos when a masked psychopath, The Wraith, kidnaps various members of their family and friends. To their horror, he’s hidden them at different historical disasters in a diabolical game called "The Empedoclean Trials". With time running out, Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy must solve the clues and rescue the "participants" before they become victims of the disasters themselves!

His dying mother, Sandra, is desperate to know what happened to her son. Believing the police have let her down, Sandra hires Patsy Hodge and the Bearing Witness team to find out the truth behind Jason’s disappearance, however devastating. When Meredith meets the Bearing women at a Christmas do, he introduces them to Patsy. The women begin working together to solve the mystery. But as they dig deeper into Jason’s last days, they put other lives in jeopardy. Can Meredith help them solve the mystery of what happened to Jason before the murderer strikes again?

When Ben and Deborah leave the city to start a new life in the beautiful countryside, they can almost taste their perfect future—growing their own food, the kids running free, peace and silence. But as soon as they arrive in their new home, bad things start to happen. And it becomes clear that somebody out there wants them gone. But ex-crime reporter Deborah doesn't scare easily. This is the life she's dreamed of for her family, and she's not giving up on it without a fight. Deborah is determined to unmask whoever is trying to hurt them and starts to dig for the truth.

On a school trip to London, Becky Mellor witnesses the sheer ambition and brutality of Emerson Drake firsthand when she is involved in the greatest terror attack in world history. So begins the most explosive Time Hunters adventure yet - a story that takes Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy to Jacobean England, the American Old West, and the legendary city of El Dorado in a search for the Sacred Chalice - a relic more commonly known as the Holy Grail....

Fight for someone. Alex Stone saved Sam's life. On a cold, rainy night in Rome, Alex had arrived just as Sam was about to be executed. With his life in the balance, she had gone on the run with him, nursed him back to health, and gave him a chance to fight back. A chance he took to bring down Wallace, Blackridge, and the truth behind Project Hailstorm. But Sam had made Alex a promise. The US government had used her family as leverage to control her, and as Sam had headed home to fight his battle, so had Alex.

Cast out by his father, Jeremy Rossiter drove away from his friends and into a wall. Some 40 years later, half of those friends are dead, and Amy Cleaver, who was present on that fateful night, predicts her own death. In her will, she instructs her solicitor to appoint someone to find out who is killing her friends. He appoints Patsy Hodge. Meredith is investigating a gruesome murder. Wealthy jeweler Christopher Kentish has been leading a double life, which was brought to an end in the most violent manner. As their cases collide, Meredith and Hodge join forces to find a killer.

Faced with life behind bars, Sam Pope has made peace with his fight being over. After discovering the harrowing truth behind Project Hailstorm and bringing down the corrupt General Wallace, Sam is abruptly sent to Ashcroft prison. A secret, maximum security prison known as "The Grid", housing the most dangerous criminals and a sadistic team of guards to keep them in line.

Cragfeld was a remote island in a magical world, once a happy place until its Kingdom was overpowered by a cruel Ice Queen who would do anything for the throne. Having imprisoned her own sister, the rightful Queen, in a tomb of ice, there was little hope for the people of Cragfeld who were under a dark curse.

After a terrifying encounter with Emerson Drake, Becky, and Joe Mellor return to Bowen Hall for the Easter Holidays. All seems quite normal until they meet Shamus Cusack, a young Irishman with a shocking story to tell, and are pitched into a quest for the fourth Eden Relic, the Sword of Ages. So begins the most powerful Time Hunters adventure yet...a thrilling story that leads Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy and Will to 1950s Italy, Medieval England, and the subterranean caves of Loch Ness.