It's the following Thursday.

Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He is being hunted and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very big mistake.

As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a killer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus?

But this time they are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knockin...

Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the legend of Troy - a tale of love and war, passion and power - following his sensational bestsellers MYTHOS and HEROES

'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .'

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay ...

With a burst of machine gun fire the assassins strike . . .

When the Van Dorn Agency's top detective, Isaac Bell, thwarts a plot to kill a US Senator, the race is on to uncover who was behind it and what they hoped to gain.

For Panama's Red Viper insurgency, the senator's death could have brought a welcome halt to the construction of the giant canal that threatens to divide their country.

It looks like an open and shut case. But when Bell heads south to investigate it's clear something about ...

THE MUST-HAVE SUMMER READ

'Need a post-Waystar fix? Get your eyes round Bad Summer People' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

'Wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp. Sinfully good like a summer cocktail you want to keep refilling ' KEVIN KWAN

'A cracking debut . . . Brilliantly written, wryly funny' DAILY MAIL

'Think Succession by the sea' RED MAGAZINE

'Awful rich people on their summer holidays having affairs and secret money worries, it is DELICIOUS' MARIAN KEYES

'A delicious summer read' HELLO!

'Th...

Is love on the small screen better than the real thing?

Brynn’s happy ending has gone up in flames. She’s newly divorced and living with a roommate – Josh – to afford her mortgage. At least she’s got Carson’s Cove to binge - her beloved 90s teenage soap.

So when a birthday cake shows up on her and Josh’s doorstep, Brynn makes a wish for her own happily-ever-after.

The next morning, she doesn't wake up in her apartment. She's in Carson's Cove... and Josh is there too. Except they...

Richard Osman meets MasterChef. In this cookery school, murder is on the menu...

'Delicious fun!' Tess Gerritsen

'Knife Skills for Beginners is a joy.' S. J. Bennett

‘A deliciously dark slice of murder and mystery.’ Chris Whitaker

'If Ruth Rendell had teamed up with Delia Smith they’d have produced something like this.’ J. M. Hall

‘Dazzlingly sharp with a wit that sparkles off the page.' Jane Corry

A recipe for disaster.

When chef Paul Delamare takes a job teaching at an exclusive r...

Why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?First Amendment rights lawyer Greg Lukianoff teams up with Rikki Schlott to show how a trend of intolerance on university campuses in America has spread to a wide range of workplaces and cultural spaces, which are giving up on a culture of free speech in favour of cancel culture. Drawing on original research and data, along with hundreds of new examples from publishing to psychotherapy, comedy, science an...