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In the tenth installment of this dramatic Elizabethan series, Westfield’s Men are flying high after a celebrated performance of The Insatiate Duke at the Queen’s Head. However, victory is bittersweet as the company is soon faced with dissolution and the loss of their theatre; were it not for one of the company’s rising stars. After acquiring a new benefactor, the company plan to build their own theatre. However, before they have the chance to find out who this guardian angel is, one of the group is found brutally murdered.

Theatre troupe Westfield’s Men take on a new actor, Francis Quilter, after reaching new heights of success. But with the new member brings new trouble. Quilter’s father, Gerard, is on trial for the murder of an enemy, but he denies the charge and Nicholas Bracewell sets about proving his innocence. However, Bracewell’s loyalty to Francis drives a wedge between the players. Who will clear the Quilter family name? On their quest for the truth, they stumble across an unlikely ally, who may just hold the answers they’re looking for.

Winter, Witchcraft and Devilish Deceit. Faced with the austerities of a bitterly cold English winter, the theatre is deserted and Westfield’s Men find themselves out of work. Fortuitously, the company is invited to perform at a country home in Essex; welcome news to the disgruntled players. The company decide it’s the perfect opportunity to trial their new play, The Witch of Colchester. However, when the group’s leading actor begins to fall mysteriously ill, the company fear witchcraft might be involved.

'Ross Greenwood doesn’t write clichés. What he has written here is a fast-paced, action-filled puzzle with believable characters that's spiced with a lot of humour' Kath Middleton How far would you go to protect your friends? Will, Carl, Aiden and Darren are inseparable from the day they meet...

'Ross Greenwood doesn’t write clichés. What he has written here is a fast-paced, action-filled puzzle with believable characters that's spiced with a lot of humour' Kath Middleton The Santa Killer is coming to town… One night less than two weeks before Christmas, a single mother is...

'A masterclass in crime fiction' Jane E James When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially-motivated crime. As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of...

The shocking page-turning thriller from top 50 bestselling author, Ross Greenwood Ben wasn’t brought up, he was dragged up. With absent parents and broken friends, a young Ben makes choices that are ruining his life. Before he’s even twenty, Ben’s spells in prison begin, and soon he finds...

Top 50 bestselling author Ross Greenwood is back with this page-turning glimpse into the criminal underworld Vinnie has always been different. But Vinnie is a survivor… A childhood accident robbed Vinnie of his memories, making him sensitive and anxious, and his difference soon attracted...

A shocking, page-turning crime thriller from top 50 bestselling author, Ross Greenwood It's hard to live when you think you deserve to die… When a tired old inmate is found dead in his cell, the prison is obligated to investigate and so DI Barton attends. The men he interviews have been...

48 assassinations - from Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Osama Bin Laden - that changed the world. We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. Instead heads of major powers and lone assassins (or martyrs) target each other to pursue their...

Discover the shocking thriller inspired by the true stories of a male prison officer in a women’s prison... Greenwood returns with this compelling glimpse behind the bars of a women's prison. From a man who walked the landings himself... Prison Officer Jim Dalton works on the male side of HMP...

A gripping, pulse-pounding DI Barton thriller from the top 50 bestselling author, Ross Greenwood Winter is coming, and Detective Inspector Barton is facing the toughest case of his career... Ellen Toole's therapist told her to forget the past, but with her family story shrouded in secrecy...

The addictive, page-turning crime thriller from top 50 bestselling author, Ross Greenwood A crime story with a twist in its tale which will surprise even the most hardened thriller readers. ‘Fear the north wind. Because no one will hear you scream…’ A family is gunned down in the snow but...

Jon Bartlett's path is clear before him: finish his last year of schooling, then off on the family's ships to learn the intricacies of interstellar trade. But a message of tragedy at home comes for him, and his expected life is flung far out of reach and he's cast into a role he never wanted.

Colm's powers could save humanity from extinction … if he can learn to control them. For centuries, humanity has viewed the sentrienza with wonder and reverence. They gifted humanity with technology and knowledge, teaching us the secrets of space travel. Until the Ghosts arrived and everything changed. Among the slaughter of the Ghost invasion, humanity learned an awful truth: Every gift from the sentrienza comes at a price. The price is our freedom. Now humanity is fighting back, but it’s an uphill battle. We’re outnumbered, outgunned, and the sentrienza have the home-field advantage.

It took us 200 years to establish 15 colonies on the closest habitable planets to Earth. It took the Ghosts only 20 years to destroy them. Navy pilot Colm Mackenzie is no stranger to the Ghosts. He has witnessed firsthand the mayhem and tragedy they leave in their wake. No one knows where they came from or how they travel or what they want. They know only one thing for sure: Ghosts leave no survivors.

Amra and Holgren's comfortable—if decidedly unexciting—life is rudely interrupted when Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box. A longstanding debt calls her back home to Bellarius, the scene of many childhood horrors she would much rather forget about. Bellarius must be saved from utter destruction and civil war. After Amra suddenly vanishes, Holgren crafts a plan that teeters between impossibility and insanity. But first, he'll have to deal with three separate armies vying for control, all of which view him as either a threat, an inconvenience, or a potential tool.

Discover the heart-pounding thriller with an unforgettable ending from bestselling author, Ross Greenwood Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham and Stuart MacBride. A murder made to look like suicide. Another that appears an accident. DI Barton investigates the tragedies that have shattered a...

'A festive and heartfelt story of love and hope - beautifully told.' Sandy Barker Join us for Christmas in the Cotswolds in this perfect festive escape, from the bestselling Lucy Coleman. Imogen Tolliman never knew her mother. And when an accident robs Immi of her father too, she goes to live...

On the besieged planet of Kepler 186f, a Marine platoon races against time to rescue civilians from an army of unstoppable Ghosts. Dropship pilot Justin Ceguerra is living through his own private hell, until the mission offers an unlikely chance of redemption.