Cirrus@Austlit

'A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.'

Source: Production blurb.

'Marine archaeologists Kate Wetherall and Lou Bates are diving off Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when a torpedo-shaped object hurtles through the water towards them; the fuselage of Amelia Earhart's lost plane. In the cockpit, they find a corroded metal cylinder the size of a baton. Landing back on US soil, Kate and Lou are arrested and interrogated by special forces, and the cylinder confiscated. Behind the arrests is Glena Buckingham, CEO of the powerful energy conglomerate Eurenergy, as she too has discovered that the wrecked plane may have held precious secret cargo.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'When the Titanic sank, it took a secret with it...'

'375 miles south-east of Newfoundland, the crew of a ship film an extraordinary event: the surface of the ocean bubbles as though boiling, covered with millions of fish. Then an enormous sperm whale roars through the water, before crashing down, dead, onto the surface. Within twenty-four hours, the footage has become a global phenomenon. The precise coordinates of the event are where the wreck of the Titanic lies some 13,000ft beneath. Engineer Kate Wetherall and her one-time boyfriend, marine archaeologist Lou Bates have been working together for almost a year - specializing in the scientific investigation of shipwrecks at the Institute of Marine Studies. Three days after the incident off Newfoundland, Commander Jerry Derham, head of a team investigating what the military have designated 'Marine Phenomenon REZ375', arrives to see them. They need to get a team down there fast to investigate. But none of them are prepared for what they find in the wreckage. Someone on the Titanic had been keeping a secret. One that might have cost lives, and that has remained trapped beneath the ocean for a hundred years. But now, there are those who would kill again to get hold of what one man died for in 1912...'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Craig Gisto narrates first three cases for his new Sydney Australia branch of international security firm, Private. Blood-soaked corpse of young Asian man kidnapped by Triad crashes into company launch party. Serial killer stuffs photocopied bills in vaginas of victims near house of Brett Thorogood, Deputy Commissioner of cooperating NSW Police. Rock star Mickey Spencer doubts manager.' (Publication summary)

When journalist Mark Bretton is asked to write an article on Professor Abigail Marchant, who has been denounced by the American Psychology Association for her belief that rebirth is a genuine phenomenon, he's more than a little sceptical about the assignment. An ambitious journalist, Mark would much rather be writing about current affairs but, once he meets the beautiful Professor and hears her theories, he can't help but be won over.

Eventually persuaded to undergo regressive hypnosis himself, Mark is shocked and horrified by what he sees. He is returned to the early ’60s when he worked for the Kennedy administration and not only does he learn the truth about the conspiracy that led to JFK's assassination but also his own murder. Struggling to make sense of it all, Mark turns to Abi for help but someone is watching Mark's every move and will stop at nothing to ensure that the truth about JFK's murder never comes to light...

Source: Author's Blurb

'An adrenalin-fuelled action thriller - as global rescue team E-Force swoop into action on their second heart-stopping mission...

'For billionaire Michael Xavier, the opening of The Neptune Hotel in Fiji is the culmination of a childhood dream and an adult obsession - to build a luxury hotel, deep under water on the ocean bed.

'But during the glittering Opening Night Gala the unthinkable happens. There is a succession of explosions and aftershocks that destroy the hotel and leave a handful of survivors attempting the impossible - to escape from a crumbling building 100 metres deep in the ocean.

'Enter E-Force, the global rescue team, who race to the scene...

'But even for these experienced operatives this is one rescue they will never forget.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon had never seen a corpse like this one. After the initial horror, he recognised the reference to the surrealist painter, Magritte. But that made the crime even more sickening - accomplished, as it had been, with a sickening ferocity which placed it in another league from common or garden homicide.

In the Whitechapel area of London in the 1880s, a person, who remains unidentified to this day, committed a series of sadistic murders of local prostitutes, which involved elaborate mutilation of the victims' bodies.

Although the contemporary crimes are not directed exclusively at female targets, there is grotesque similarity in the mindset of the two perpetrators - divided, as they are, by more than a century. But Pendragon is determined that his pathologically brilliant killer will not escape detection.

Source: Author's Blurb

'E-FORCE: Six gifted, super-fit, highly trained individuals

'MISSION: Specialist rescue in times of global emergency

'The Emergency Force team - including Marine Mark Harrison, Shuttle pilot Michaela Buchanan and Cyber genius Tom Erickson - employs some of the most advanced equipment on the planet: from Mach-10 jets to incredible cybersuits. And they'll need all that gadgetry for their first mission - to save the life of US Senator Kyle Foreman.

'Foreman was giving a speech in LA when two bombs ripped through the Conference Centre. Miraculously Foreman survives - except he's trapped inside, as fires rage and floors collapse.

'But as E-Force plan their perilous route into the building, so too does The Dragon, the assassin who will let nothing stop his deadly mission.' (Publisher's blurb)

When a blackened skeleton is unearthed on a building site in the City of London, no one can have the slightest idea of its extraordinary link to a plot to assassinate the Queen of Englandover 500 years ago.

But there is one very conspicuous clue. On the index finger of the body's right hand is a gold ring topped with a brilliant, round emerald.

DCI Jack Pendragon has just transferred from Oxford to Brick Lane Police Station - in part to escape his own past. Immediately, he finds himself investigating three particularly gruesome murders. And he will need all the experience he has acquired from two decades on the force to track down a killer for whom an eerie obsession has become total madness. A killer who draws his murderous inspiration from a Renaissance family whose power and cruelty remain a living legend.

Source: Publisher's Blurb