The tense atmosphere Beth's sister causes when she comes to stay is strained further by Lucy's references to Beth's inability to conceive. When Lucy has a fatal accident, she leaves the legacy of her child, providing Beth's only chance of motherhood.But forces are bent on Beth remaining childless."Britain's greatest living horror author." Dark Side"An expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages." Time Out"Hutson writes grippingly." SFX...

During an archaeological dig, a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children is discovered. At first glance they seem to have been there for thousands of years but closer examination reveals a more shocking secret. The opening of the chamber triggers a series of horrific murders, each victim mutilated and their entrails used to form a different letter of the alphabet. Who is behind this outrage? And how is it linked to a subterranean chamber...

As a member of the Counter Terrorist Unit, Sean Doyle thought he'd seen it all. Every violent act, every depraved action man could perpetrate against man but he is to discover that there are much worse things in this world than even he has encountered. Tracking a group of renegade terrorists from London to the Republic of Ireland, Doyle and his partner must discover who is funding these men and why. What he discovers is beyond even his experience...

A discovery in a local cemetery finds a sleepy village overrun with the dead400 years ago, a woman died in agony to keep the secret of a golden disk and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake. Wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil hideous, powerful, and vile is once again reborn.

Harold Pierce didn't mean to kill his baby brother all those years ago. He didn't intend to incinerate him in a fire but he did and he has spent most of his adult life in a psychiatric hospital because of that. Upon release he is given a job as a hospital porter but that job involves the burning of aborted fetuses and the memories of what happened to his brother begin to torment Harold. In the small town where he lives the terror is mounting because...

A sickening series of murders in London have left five homeless kids mutilated, and the capital is in shock. Nick Ryan, private detective, has seen the reports, but it's not his problem. No one's paying him to find the killers. He doesn't care. In fact, since his wife and daughter left him, he hasn't cared about a lot, least of all himself. Suddenly there's another victim. She's not homeless - and so far she's not dead. But when Ryan sees the videotape...

"…She glanced out over the churning waves, thinking how dark and forbidding the sea looked tonight. She could hear it lashing against the pier and, more than once, she fancied she felt the structure beneath her move slightly. She reached down slowly and unzipped the holdall. Inside there were towels and pieces of rag. Inside those was a baby. No older than six weeks, the child was crying softly and it continued to do so even when Polly picked it...

TESTAMENT - For some death is just the beginning...You have a chance to save the world or the only person you ever loved...What would you do...?Sean Doyle faced danger, death and other things he'd rather forget during his time in the Counter Terrorist Unit. But times change, even if Doyle doesn't. He's older but no wiser and the world he knew has changed.Now he finds himself working as a Private Security Consultant in Baghdad, still a city in turmoil....