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With Boyd convalescing at home after his operation, and DS Minter preparing for his Inspector's exam, CID Hastings is woefully under-manned. So, when the body of a young man is found hanging from a tree - an apparent suicide, and a house is burned down killing a wheelchair-bound old woman, it's...

Returning home from a police conference DCI BOYD catches the last train back to Hastings from Brighton, unaware that he's about to play a central role in what will become a sensational news story. But Boyd is reluctant to get caught up in the media hype or have his face plastered across the...

When a fire destroys a landmark home in Hastings and 'national treasure' Sir Jeffrey Sutton's body is found in the debris, it seems that arson may be to blame. But who would want the old man dead? Could it be his children - both with strong motives? Or his ex-wife? His live-in carer? Or perhaps...

Audrey Hincher, a middle-aged woman, with a mundane job and an unremarkable home life suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day on a busy street in the centre of Hastings. Boyd and his team are not immediately concerned for her welfare, but as the days pass and questions start to surface about...

Argyle House, the most hated home on Cottle Street. A place where the town's unwanted and despised are housed. Given the local hostility, it's no surprise to anyone when a body is discovered in one of its flats. Boyd wastes no time despatching Minter and Okeke to investigate. But it's not long...

The restoration of an old costal defence tower is halted when work starts on the flooded basement, leading to the grim discovery of a human bone.

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. When Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a mystery as to whether she has witnessed a monstrous crime or...

Ten years after a massive oil crisis, the world lies devastated. The towns and cities of Britain are skeletal ghosts and very few humans have managed to survive. But sitting quietly amidst the ravaged landscapes are a few communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living. Jenny Sutherland leads one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs, she has helped a few hundred people rebuild a semblance of normality.

When Jay Turner - a nightclub doorman accidentally overhears a murder being planned he suddenly becomes Hastings' MOST WANTED man! Not only is he wanted by East Sussex Police for a violent crime that he's been framed for, but, by a desperate psychopath with limitless resources who simply can't...

When a female body is discovered at the bottom of the cliffs just outside Hastings, Boyd and Okeke find themselves dealing with an apparent suicide. But as forensic details begin to emerge, it becomes evident that it was a staged suicide. As Boyd and Okeke delve into the last few months of the...

Plague Nation is the gripping sequel to the apocalyptic thriller Plague Land, by the best-selling author of the Timeriders series, Alex Scarrow. Eighteen months have passed since the events of Plague Land. Leon and Freya have seen no sign of the virus, clinging on to the hope that two hard winters may have just killed it off. When news of a rescue ship arriving off the coast comes in, the pair are on the move once again. But all is not as safe as it seems. The virus has been busy. It has learned and evolved. And now it is reborn....

It happened within a week. Survival was just the start of it. It has a plan.... Leon is stuck in England. Grace is on her way to New Zealand and Freya to the 'New United States' in Cuba. The virus has assimilated all of humanity except for these three communities, and now it is prepared to talk with them. How they each choose to respond to the virus will ultimately decide their fate in Plague World, the apocalyptic finale to the Remade trilogy from best-selling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow.

The restoration of an old coastal defence tower is halted when work starts on the flooded basement, leading to the grim discovery of a human bone. The Napoleonic-era ruin is known to the locals as 'Devil's Tower' for the many urban myths and ghost stories attributed to it. Far more terrifying is...

When a couple of storage auction bidders win the contents of unit 37 at 'Best Price Storage', they discover the mummified remains of three dismembered bodies inside. Thus begins a new murder case for Boyd and his team. While East Sussex police force are concerned they may have another serial...

When old bones are discovered buried beside an A-road it becomes clear that Leon Martin - dubbed the Ken Doll Killer by the tabloid press - may not have taken his life 21 years ago. As Boyd investigates the old case file it becomes clear there may be new bodies buried at lay-bys around the...

Bloomsbury presents TimeRiders: The Eternal War by Alex Scarrow, read by Trevor White Continuing the heart-pounding, time-bending action of the TimeRiders series, The Eternal War brings readers back to a pivotal time period in American history: the Civil War. Only this alternate history is one...

Bloomsbury presents TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow, read by Trevor White When a British computer hacker finds his name coded into a centuries-old manuscript, TimeRider Maddy recognizes it as the same message she had also been sent. Sure it must be communication from other...

Bloomsbury presents TimeRiders: Day of the Predator by Alex Scarrow, read by Trevor White Liam O'Connor, Maddy Carter, and Sal Vikram all should have died. But instead, they have been given a second chance-to work for an agency that no one knows exists. The TimeRiders' mission: to prevent time...

Bloomsbury presents TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow, read by Trevor White Maddy should have died in a plane crash. Liam should have died at sea when the Titanic sank. Sal should have died in a tragic fire. But a mysterious man whisked them away to safety. Maddy, Liam, and Sal quickly learn that time...