THE BREAKER (X Rated)

ACID ROW (X Rated)

Ten-year-old Amy has been abducted from Acid Row. The revelation that a known paedophile has been re-located to the area leads to rioting, which, after five hours of savagery, leaves three people dead. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

THE CHAMELEON'S SHADOW (X Rated)

Lieutenant Charles Acland comes home from Iraq with serious head injuries and begins to display aggressive tendencies, particularly against women. After moving to London he narrowly avoids killing a man who annoys him in a pub and is forced to confront the real issues behind his problems. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

CHICKENFEED

Based on the true story of the 'chicken farm murder', which took place at Crowborough, East Sussex in December 1924. Norman Thorne was found guilty of the murder of Elsie Cameron, but even at the time of his execution there were doubts about his guilt. Still swearing his innocence, Norman Thorne was hanged on 22 April 1925.

THE DARK ROOM

After being jilted by her fiance, Jane (Jinx) Kingsley goes into a coma. When she awakes she remembers nothing, but she is told that she attempted suicide, and finds herself facing a murder charge.

THE DEVIL'S FEATHER

Five young women have been savagely murdered during civil conflict in Sierre Leone. Although three young soldiers confess to the killings, Reuters correspondent, Connie Burns, believs the real killer is a foreign mercenary.As she searches for the killer she endangers herself and is forced to flee the country, but even rural Dorset is no longer safe!

DISORDERED MINDS (X Rated)

In 1970 a retarded young man, Harold Stamp, was convicted of murdering his grandmother. The evidence was flimsy, and after three years of protesting his innocence, he committed suicide. Thirty years later an anthropologist recognises the terrible miscarriage of justice, but is he courageous enough to re-investigate? X rated, contains graphic violence.

A DREADFUL MURDER

Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon becomes the suspect ... But is he guilty? Quick Reads.

FOX EVIL

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, land-owning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. The inquest gives a verdict of "natural causes" but the gossip about James refuses to go away; Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets.

THE ICE HOUSE

The people of Streech village have never trusted the three women living at the Grange since Phoebe's husband vanished. When a corpse is found in the grounds the police are determined to charge her with murder.

THE LAST HOURS

1348: The Black Death enters England and people start to die in their thousands. In the demesne of Develish, Lady Anne takes control of her people's future. Along with her slave, Thaddeus Thurkell, they decide to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside the walls. With this sudden overturning of the accepted social order, where serfs exist only to serve their lords, conflicts soon arise…

THE SHAPE OF SNAKES (X Rated)

In 1978 'Mad Annie' is found dead by her young neighbour, Mrs Ranelagh, who spends the next twenty years trying to prove that Annie was murdered, but why? X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

THE SWIFT AND THE HARRIER

Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality. One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, who offers her services to both sides in the conflict. Through her dedication to treating the sick and wounded, regardless of belief, Jayne becomes a witness to the brutality of war and the devastation it wreaks. Yet her recurring companion at every event is a man she should despise because he embraces civil war as the means to an end. She knows him as William Harrier, but is ignorant about every other aspect of his life. His past is a mystery and his future uncertain.

THE TINDER BOX

In a Hampshire village Patrick O'Riordan has been arrested for a brutal murder. Siobhan Lavenham is convinced that Patrick is the victim of a prejudiced investigation, and risks her standing in the community to support Patrick and his family.

THE TURN OF MIDNIGHT

As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorsetshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. When Lady Anne and Thaddeus conceive an audacious plan to secure her people's independence, neither foresees the life-threatening struggle over power, money and religion will follow...