Telos Publishing Ltd: 115 books

Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy breaks into the house of missing nurse Marilyn Smith. She finds Marilyn upstairs, spreadeagled across the bed, provacatively dressed and elaborately made up – she is also stone dead. Despite a lack of evidence at the post mortem, Piercy is convinced that...

Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy and her sergeant, Mike Korpanski, find themselves investigating the murder of a ten-year-old boy whose burning body is found beneath the Winking Man, a desolate outcrop from which nature has carved a human face. The boy’s body is scarred by cigarette burns,...

Joanna bent down to peer at the work, neatly done, evenly stitched in bright silk, and now spattered with blood. She read out the title: ‘Massacre of the Innocent’. A spate of robberies targeting old women is disturbing enough, especially in a town as peaceful as Leek. But then DI Joanna Piercy...

There was a hole in his chest. A big hole. A quick glance showed exposed flesh and bone, red gore. It had been an accurate shot. Truck driver Dave Shackleton senses that all is not well at Hardacre farm when he arrives to collect the morning’s milk. The cows are loose and the farmers nowhere...

Rafe Perez’s greatest love is for the rainforests of his native Brazil, so when he is faced with acting as a guide for the headstrong Gina Matheson, whose father is the boss of the logging company that he despises, it seems unlikely they will get along. Rafe’s task is to ensure that Gina makes...

When India Melling decides to move out of her ancestral home, Selby Hall, she places the sale with Quinton Holdings and the capable hands of her niece, Laura Fenton, who works for its owner, the pushy Nick Quinton. Laura loves Selby and is unhappy that her aunt is selling, especially as the most interested...

Ella is the new English teacher in a small mountain village on the island of Rhodes. When she has a car accident on the mountain road, she is rescued by a young man who is efficient yet gruff, and angry with her for risking the treacherous route in the dark. Later, she learns that her savior, Loukas,...

Alys Symons’ beloved father seems too weak to shield her from her cruel mother’s plan to marry her off to the odious Alexander Huston – and in Elizabethan England, a young woman is expected to do as she is told in such matters! Then brothers Tom and Nicholas Merson pay them a visit, and Alys...

Newly qualified as a horticulturalist, young Cathy Murdoch is spending the summer in her mother’s childhood home, the ancient French town of Chinon, on the banks of a sleepy tributary of the River Loire. When she receives an offer to restore part of the local chateau garden to its former glory,...

The year is 1903, and young Mary Flynn has voyaged from her native Ireland to America to find her fortune in New York. But the aunt who promised to meet her on her arrival fails to appear, and she is stranded on Ellis Island … One of Mary’s fellow passengers, the handsome Sean Mullen, offered...

Lucy Page flies into the Yemen, ready to risk everything to save her brother, who is being held hostage by terrorists. She is met at the airport by handsome Conor Kendall, the enigmatic leader of the rescue attempt, and together they set out into the desert on their perilous mission. Lucy’s instincts...

Cracks in Time is the comprehensive guide to Series Five of Doctor Who — the first to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor, with his new companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill). All 13 episodes plus the Christmas special, ‘A Christmas Carol’, are discussed...

End of Ten is the comprehensive guide to the Doctor Who specials transmitted at the end of 2008 and through 2009, culminating in the dramatic regeneration of the tenth Doctor (David Tennant) into the eleventh (Matt Smith) on 1 January 2010. All five specials are covered, along with the associated...

Monsters Within is a comprehensive episode guide to Series Four of the new Doctor Who, following the ongoing adventures of the Doctor (David Tennant) as he travels through space and time accompanied by his new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and rejoined by old friends including...