In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to...

"North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though,...

Ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathereed together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.

What was life like back before Europeans showed up? Devon's answers may not be strictly accurate, but does it matter?

Raised by her father after being abandoned by her mother, Brigid has nursed a lifelong resentment of the woman. After her father dies, Brigid inherits the family estate. Soon her mother comes to visit and gradually insinuates herself back into the unwelcoming Brigid's life. In addition to this tempest, Brigid has become fast friends with Louise, a yearly boarder who suspects her husband of infidelity, and she must deal with her half-sister, Jemima,...

The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers. The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.

"A nonfiction picture book biography celebrating Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman, who became the first full-time solo percussionist in the world"--

The Mogadorians have commenced their invasion and the Garde have to awaken the power in the Sanctuary if they hope to save this world.

The Garde, broken and divided, discover that the Mogadorians have commenced their ultimate invasion plans and will stop at nothing to thwart it.