Colin Forbes
The Main Chance

At the urgent plea of a friend, Tweed, Deputy Chief SIS, and Paula Grey, visit Bella Main at remote Hengistbury Manor. The formidable Bella controls the most powerful private bank in Europe, the Main Chance. She tells them she has refused an enormous offer from Calouste Gubenkian, a villainous Armenian. Within days of their visit Bella is murdered. Tweed and Paula return to investigate the atrocious act. The bank's Hengistbury HQ is based in an Elizabethan manor hidden in the south of England. Tweed has already met members of the two families which have run the bank for generations. He now becomes aware of hatred between the families, and unearths deceit and dangerous secrets. Then Calouste arrives in England and a second murder is committed. Will Paula and Tweed be in time to prevent another murder?

John Francome
Cover Up

Rob Harding has bred a big winner. His three-year-old colt, Goldeneye, is the product of Rob's own stud farm and, when the horse wins the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, it looks as though he might give Rob's business a much-needed shot in the arm. But no amount of prize money can deflect the tragedy that's waiting round the corner. Rob's head girl Ivana, a horse-mad beauty from the Czech Republic, would also revel in Goldeneye's triumph except for the terrifying reappearance of her sadistic ex-lover Milos. She's run a long way to escape from him - but it looks like she hasn't run far enough.

`The natural successor to Dick Francis'- Irish Times

The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world, and Roy Straitley, Latin master, and eccentric veteran of St Oswald's, is contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt. Who is 'Mole', the mysterious insider whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards violence - and perhaps murder? And how can an old and half-forgotten scandal become the stone that brings down a giant?