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

The hot summer has brought several kinds of trouble to the monastery at Wickit, and Pip the orphan and Perfect the stone gargoyle find themselves up to their eyebrows in it all! What is the king's man really doing at Wickit? Will the Black Bog give up its secrets? And will the Beautiful Norse girl find Johan Shortleg's long-lost buried treasure?

"But it was Mum!" Eric tells Lizzie. "I saw her...." At first, Lizzie thinks it's just one of her little brother's stories. Their mother's dead: there's no way she could be working in the gift shop at the Natural History Museum. But what if Eric's right? If there's a mystery at the heart of Lizzie's family she wants to solve it.

After a psychic predicts that he will commit a murder before his next birthday, Gabriel is compelled to visit the office of Inspector Espinosa and confess to the potential crime. As a south-westerly wind starts up, what seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur, and their only link is the lonely, clever man who sought out Espinosa for help a few days earlier.

Isis and Hopi, orphaned when crocodiles kill their parents, are due to perform for the pharoh's tomb-builders near the legendary Valley of the Kings. But the villagers fall under suspicion when the heavily-guarded royal tombs are broken into. Can Isis and Hopi discover the truth about the robberies - in time?

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.

Dashing career soldier and ladies' man, Captain Daniel Rawson, happily accepts the Duke of Marlborough's dangerous undercover mission to find a missing spy - a Dutch tapestry-maker's beautiful daughter Amalia, unaware of her father's espionage role, is fearful for her safety. It's up to Daniel to find her father and put Amalia's mind at rest.

When Sally's husband Charlie says he's leaving her, she makes him go at once. As a child growing up in Dublin, she never had friends thanks to her lonely, secretive unmarried mother who kept her at home with her. A succesful actress, she can effortlessly mimic others, but who is she, herself? With desperate courage she decides to visit her grandfather, a shadowy figure, in the forlorn hope that she can unlock the door to her past.