Books published by publisher Charnwood

When a mysterious and beautiful young woman named Katie appears in the small American town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Despite her determination to avoid forming personal ties, she becomes drawn into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a store owner; and another with her neighbour, Jo. Katie begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie falls in love, she's still haunted by the dark secret that set her on the journey to the sheltered oasis of Southport. Eventually, though, Katie realizes that a choice must be made between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards...and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.

In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned. Twenty years later, Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help, believing that he had stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body... Michael's account is indistinct - he was only six years old at the time of the kidnapping. But Kinsey is certain there is something vital within Michael's recollections. And even when what is eventually unearthed isn't what anyone expected, she can't quite let go of the case. As the protagonists of the tragedy are gradually brought to light, from Country Club parents to their free-living, hippy children, the truth finally begins to emerge. And while stepping back into the past, Kinsey discovers more about her own history too...

It's Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore, and Jane is lying in hospital, trying to piece together the events of the previous night. One minute she was at a party, wearing fairy wings and cuddling with her boyfriend. The next, she was lying, near dead, in a rosebush after a hit-and-run. Everyone believes it was an accident - despite her protestations that the phone threats were real... As Jane's boyfriend, friends, and admirers come to visit, memories surface from the party and from her past - including the night her best friend Bonnie died. Nearly everyone in her life is a suspect. As she's forced to examine the consequences of her life choices, Jane must unravel the mystery before her killer attacks again...

Mark and Melanie Bridges are lost in the world's most hostile forest. They have no shelter, no water, and no hope. Then, they stumble on the wreck of a crashed helicopter. Inside, the skeletons of the pilot and passenger remain, their doomed mission uncertain. Vital supplies have been left behind - and a mystery that threatens to kill them. Soon nowhere is safe. Not even the civilisation they left behind. As the clues unfold it all begins, the lies, the blackmail, the kidnapping and murder. Mark and Melanie's secret is far bigger than the jungle that hides it, and the ruthless killers who pursue it. It is a secret that commands the power of life and death - a secret that will change the world forever.

'A tour de force...an absolute must for anyone intrigued by the TITANIC' - JOHN MAXTONE-GRAHAM 'A fresh and absorbing look at the classic sea disaster by a master storyteller' - ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, Jr The most awesome ocean-going vessel the world had ever seen, the mighty TITANIC struck an iceberg and sank on the night of 14th April, 1912, carrying more than fifteen hundred souls - and unaccountable secrets - to the icy bottom of the mid-Atlantic. Why did the crew steam full speed ahead into dangerous waters despite six wireless warnings? How able was Captain Smith? Why did the nearby ship CALIFORNIAN ignore TITANIC's distress signals? How could such a disaster ever have occurred? Walter Lord explores - and answers - the untold mysteries behind the twentieth century's greatest catastrophe at sea.

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for.

'Crichton certainly has the Midas touch.' SPECTATOR 'A giant of a writer' DAILY EXPRESS In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian Sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandinavia and save his countrymen and family from the monsters of the mist...