Collection: Reader Development

Peter Grant is a Detective Constable in the Metropolitan Police. He is also the first trainee wizard in the Met for 50 years. In the tunnels of London's Underground, the buried rivers, the Victorian sewers, he is hearing whispers of ancient arts and tortured, vengeful spirits.

Newly widowed, Bronwyn Parrish's fortune has been spent settling her late husband's debts - thanks to an unscrupulous business manager - and now there's nothing left. Society has no place for a woman without means, and with nowhere to turn, Bronwyn is lost - until, from out of nowhere, a handsome...

It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College, is murdered in a dark alleyway in town. While the university and town authorities investigate the murder, Seaton is asked by the college principa...

Long after earth was forgotten, a galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for generations. Everyone believed it would work forever, except Hari Seldon.

1635, Aberdeen. A girl lies dead in a frozen garden. A young man goes missing after a drunken brawl. A sinister cloaked figure watches from the shadows. The missing student is in Alexander Seaton's class. When the young man's companion turns up bruised and bloodied, suspicion mounts that he has m...

Disliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial magnet. When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to find out who murdered his sister, her husband and two young children, the trail's been cold for over a year; the original police ...

Called in to carry out forensic investigations into the brutal murder of a prostitute in Glasgow, Rhona MacLeod realizes that she is dealing with a serial killer - and that he will kill again. Anderson's other novels include 'Driftnet' and 'Dark Flight'.

Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what...