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The explosive series begins with The Night Shift, where ex-sniper Sam Pope leads his own investigation into a bombing at the London Marathon, setting himself on a collision course with some of the most dangerous criminals in London.

Sam’s fight continues in Too Far Gone, as he goes head to head with General Wallace, in a bid to bring down Blackridge and finally discover the truth of Project Hailstorm. The Final Mile sees Sam fighting for survival inside an off the books, maximum security prison where both the convicts and the guards have him in their crosshairs. And lastly, Man of My Word finds Sam in South Carolina, fighting to keep his promise to Alex Stone, whose desperation to find her family has landed in an escalating drug war.

When government cutbacks threaten Project Dragonfly, General Rufus McManus takes direct action to secure its future. Deep undercover with his life on the line, can Danny survive long enough to bring him to justice? After the theft of a consignment of prototype rifles and the death of one of Howard’s agents, Danny Pearson is sent undercover to infiltrate a team of ex-special forces soldiers, led by his old SAS buddy Commander Rex Benton.

Sam Pope is back, in the explosive sequel to The Night Shift. As his mission against organized crime rages on, Sam Pope finds himself the target of a dedicated task force led by a tenacious young inspector. In the midst of a gun fight with a violent street gang, he finds a desperate father venturing into a world he doesn’t understand, searching for a daughter he will never see again. Realizing that the net is tightening and the clock is ticking, Sam burns a hole right through the underbelly of London to find the missing girl.

Trying his best to live a normal life, Sam is called back to his crusade by the abusive behavior of a celebrity billionaire in Out of Reach. In Days Gone By, the chance to finally discover what happened on a mission gone wrong over a decade ago sets Sam off on a battle with the soon-to-be-president of France. And in The Fighter, Sam is recruited by an off-the-books government agency to enter an underground fighting tournament as their one and only chance to get close to a brutal arms dealer.

A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course! The Mistro family has a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a 600-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail...well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.

Nigel Foxton was jailed for the murder of three women. Not only was the evidence damning, but during the trial, he changed his plea to guilty. Case closed...or was it? It’s almost 20 years later, and Meredith is being taunted with more victims murdered in the same way. Foxton claims he is innocent and wants to appeal, and Meredith has to prove they jailed the right man.

On the surface, John Meredith appears to have it all. He’s blessed with good looks and a successful police career, and he’s never short of female attention. But is everything as it seems? What lies beneath the smooth, confident exterior? Is he a man who has simply plastered over the cracks of a dysfunctional childhood, betrayals, and heartbreak? Can he allow anyone close or will they see the joins and the damaged person that he really is?

Meredith is impatient to get back to work following his illness, but has a few matters to sort out, and a wedding to attend before that happens. The wedding is ruined when Meredith is arrested and his half brother turns up with a body in the boot of his car. The investigation reveals that Patsy and Amanda are being stalked and are in the sights of a sadistic killer. It seems an old adversary is trying to ruin Meredith’s life before he wipes out everyone Meredith cares about.

DCI John Meredith has one day left in the job when his friend Ben Jacobs is arrested for murder. According to the numerous witnesses in the nightclub where Jacobs works, Jacobs stabbed Aiden O’Brien in a motiveless attack. Meredith believes all is not as it seems and is determined to prove his friend’s innocence, even if it means letting down Patsy Hodge, allowing the secret intelligence service to call the shots, and ignoring his increasing ill-health.

Meredith and Hodge are stranded up a mountain with two dead bodies and a murderer on the loose, Christmas is put on hold until they can catch the killer. John Meredith has been coerced into joining a group of friends, in a castle on top of a mountain, for the Christmas holiday. His irritation at being dragged away from home soon dissipates, as he relaxes in the picturesque surroundings, enjoying the company of good friends. Even the sudden snowstorm is accepted without complaint; it will be a white Christmas. But then Patsy Hodge discovers a dead body in the salt box.

Andy Field brings together history, science, psychology, queer theory, and pop culture with his love of urban life and his own experiences—both as a city-dweller and as a performance artist—to forge creative connections: walking hand-in-hand with strangers, knocking on doors, staging encounters in parked cars. In considering twelve different kinds of encounters, from car rides to video calls to dog-walker chats in the park, Field argues "that in the spontaneity and joy of our meetings with each other, we might find the faint outline of a better future."

Rhianna Chow has been abducted, snatched from the street in front of her home, and in this second Little Compton Mystery, cleaner Liz Thorne, and accountant Tom Large team up once again to help find her. As they dig deeper into Rhianna’s life, they discover a maze of secrets and betrayals that threaten to muddy the waters, and obscure who is really responsible for Rhianna’s abduction.

Damian, a lovable hapless fool, makes a series of disastrous decisions–he loses everything. Of course, his father, who died thirty-three years ago, can’t help because he’s dead–or is he? However, the dead really do walk amongst us–apparently. Terry and Deana return in their second riotous escapade as they attempt to help Terry’s son scramble out of a rather tricky situation–will they succeed and, at last, atone for their sins?

After three years undercover in some of the most dangerous gangs in the UK, DS Jack Townsend, along with his wife and young daughter, relocate to a pleasant village in Buckinghamshire. A promise of a fresh start, a chance to reconnect, and the opportunity to join the Thames Valley Police's Specialist Crimes Unit (SCU). Headed up by DI Isabella King, the SCU is handed its first case when the body of a woman is found in the woods of Wycombe Rye, the victim of a brutal stabbing.

Relive the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s in this witty and gripping time travel series. Evoke the memories and discover the mystery. The impossible dilemma of two identical men from different eras, a mysterious time-shifting event, and a future that holds the consequences of his past mistakes. Courtesy of a random time-shifting event in 1976, Jason Apsley time travelled from 2019 to 1976 and unwittingly displaced ‘other’ Jason, who has no choice but to continue his life forty years in the future.

On a school trip to London, Becky Mellor witnesses the sheer ambition and brutality of Emerson Drake firsthand when she is involved in the greatest terror attack in world history. So begins the most explosive Time Hunters adventure yet - a story that takes Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy to Jacobean England, the American Old West, and the legendary city of El Dorado in a search for the Sacred Chalice - a relic more commonly known as the Holy Grail....

Fight for someone. Alex Stone saved Sam's life. On a cold, rainy night in Rome, Alex had arrived just as Sam was about to be executed. With his life in the balance, she had gone on the run with him, nursed him back to health, and gave him a chance to fight back. A chance he took to bring down Wallace, Blackridge, and the truth behind Project Hailstorm. But Sam had made Alex a promise. The US government had used her family as leverage to control her, and as Sam had headed home to fight his battle, so had Alex.

Five years ago, the London mob clashed with the Russian mafia. Death and violence escalated, putting Danny’s family in danger. Danny Pearson ended the war, or so he thought.... Time has passed and Yuri Volkov's daughter Annika has come of age. After reviving her father’s empire, she spends five long years searching for her father’s killer, and now she's found him. Kidnapped and packaged off to a Moscow prison, Danny learns of his fate. Annika Volkov doesn't want him dead; she wants him to spend an eternity of suffering at the hands of the Volkov mafia inmates…

Cast out by his father, Jeremy Rossiter drove away from his friends and into a wall. Some 40 years later, half of those friends are dead, and Amy Cleaver, who was present on that fateful night, predicts her own death. In her will, she instructs her solicitor to appoint someone to find out who is killing her friends. He appoints Patsy Hodge. Meredith is investigating a gruesome murder. Wealthy jeweler Christopher Kentish has been leading a double life, which was brought to an end in the most violent manner. As their cases collide, Meredith and Hodge join forces to find a killer.