BelovedTerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Carson and his partner begin to suspect that someone close to them is the killer's ultimate target

He attracts itjust as a lightning conductor attracts lightning

His passions

and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk

Just when we needed her most' Gentlewoman

Crime fiction of the highest order Mark Billingham

And when that destruction comes

and his life on the straight and narrow

'He came on the shortest day of the year between the storms that carried the sea twenty miles inland and the great snow of that winter

Through Francis

your darkest moments

The question was what to do about it