Books published by Allison & Busby

For whodunit fans who prefer their villains to be nice, refined people, the sort who quote Shakespeare and knock off their nearest and dearest between rubbers of bridge, The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks is a delectable treat.

Fun and informative, Small Great Gestures Art provides children with a great introduction to the global world of art.

Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose?

December, 1917. Ada Hobbs has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years, and on this frosty morning she arrives at 9am to begin the day there, while he is at work. But it turns out the house is not empty after all. The blood-covered George Tindall is sprawled across the floor.

September 1940: the height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its very safe series underground shelters it is discovered after one night of raids that one of the hotel's guests is dead, stabbed through the heart...

The story of a Victorian Actress and Lady Journalist

For those who loved Little People, BIG DREAMS, this new series showcases the lives and achievements of amazing men and women.This fun and informative book tells the fascinating stories of remarkable scientists behind ground-breaking discoveries such as penicillin and DNA. From the fall of Newton's apple, Ada Lovelace's imaginative step into the future of computing, to Stephen Hawking's work exploring the origins of the universe, Science shows a new generation of scientists that the greatest leaps in understanding start by asking the smallest questions.

The body of Durand Wuduweard, the unpopular keeper of the King's Forest of Feckenham,is discovered beside his hearth, his corpse rendered barely identifiable by sharp teeth. Hushed whispers of a man-wolf spread swiftly...

Things are all set for a fantastic Christmas in the Slocombe house, but then a local lady disappears, relationships are put to the test, and there's a death.

When novelist Sophie Carr rescues a man hiding in her garden from a group of paparazzi, she finds that her new neighbour is ageing pop star Jez Winter.

The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the murder of one of its monks.

1900. The death of her father forces Harriet out of her home to escape the advances of her stepbrother, the rule of her stepmother and into service at Dalton House. Over time Harriet develops a friendship with the Dalton's crippled son Joseph but her life is changed completely when she inherits Greyladies, an old and possibly haunted house.

When Mara Gregory travels to Australia to meet the father whom she had believed dead, will she be disappointed or might she find a whole new life waiting for her?

London, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague nowhere to be found.

When Juno Browne purchases a wardrobe to stock in her fledgling antiques store, she doesn't expect to find a dead body inside.

A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure

Love and Fury takes us on Wollstonecraft's travels from rural Yorkshire and bustling London to Paris at the height of the French Revolution and the beauty of Scandinavia.

October 1943. Nancy Dalton, working at the RAF base at Scampton never intended to complicate wartime life with a romance with Canadian Steve Allard.

When Tam Eildor arrives unexpectedly on a remote Scottish island in the year of 1587 after his time machine develops a fault, he quickly finds himself embroiled in the lives of the colourful locals who are trying to escape the tyranny of the greedy Earl Robert Stewart.

Arriving at Warwick Castle, Delchard and Bret are faced by a horrific murder. But this is only the start of their troubles...

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret come to Cheshire to settle a series of disputes. What they don't expect to find is a hostage, a suspicious priest and a gruesome death.

Nicolas Picard appears to be have been killed by a wildcat, but cuts on his neck are clearly made by a human hand. Three women fight for their right to his land, but can Delchard and Bret detect the murderer?

Osbern de Lench is known far and wide as a hard master, whose temper is perpetually frayed. His horse returns to the hall riderless one day and the lifeless body of the lord is found soon after. Was it the work of thieves, or something closer to home? Hugh Bradecote, the wily Serjeant Catchpoll and apprentice Walkelin have suspects aplenty.

When a little girl is murdered the only lead is a phone call about the death... but it was made 2 months before the incident.