The Olympic Games are under attack. Only Private the world's most exclusive detective agency can save them. July 2012. The Games have arrived in London and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee is found brutally murdered, Peter Knight, head of Private London is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on security for the Games, so Denton Marshall was a valuable client, but there is a more personal link - Denton was also the fiancé of Knight's mother. He is devastated by the murder but it soon becomes clear that this is no isolated incident. The killer is targeting the Games itself, and the lives of everyone involved are under threat. Told with breakneck speed. 497pp in paperback with fairly large print.

When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest investigation agency. In a city of over 13 million he has his work cut out at the best of times, but now someone is killing seemingly unconnected people, strangled in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces Private India that could threaten the lives of thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens. 473pp, paperback.

Unsolvable cases, unsolvable murders - Jack Morgan is the No. 1 suspect. Since the former US Marine started Private, it has become the world's most successful detective agency, but when his former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, Jack is instantly the number one suspect. With his team stretched to breaking point and Jack fighting for his life, he finds himself strong-armed by the mob into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and Jack realises he is facing his most powerful enemies ever. 455pp, paperback.

Jack Morgan cannot refuse an offer when the head of the world's foremost investigation agency is invited to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne. He boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan's skills, and his discretion. Sophie Edwards, a close friend of the royal, has gone missing and she must be found before the media become aware of it. Morgan knows that there is more to this case than he is being told. What is the Princess hiding? 409pp, paperback.

Even for Private Investigations, the world's top detective agency, it's tough to find a man who doesn't exist. Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. It's not just the man whose gone missing, all evidence he ever existed has vanished too, and there are powerful figures pulling the strings who want Moss to stay 'lost'. But when a woman is found brutally murdered and a baby is missing, Private are suddenly drawn into another frantic search, and this is a case Craig has to throw everything into, because he may well be responsible for sending the killer straight to the victim's door. 453pp, paperback.

Romance, quirky humour and animals, here is a charming festive story full of quirky characters and it's often laugh-out-loud funny. Publisher's Weekly: 'Ornery llamas, attack sheep and a wealth of colourful country characters (including a spectacular hairdresser-to-the-stars who coifs alpacas in his down time) electrify Matthews's charming tale...perfect for lovers of small-town romance.' Owner Molly Baker is organising a festive fundraiser, but with an anti-social sheep, awkward alpacas and a seriously sequined Santa Claus to assemble, she is feeling overwhelmed and in desperate need of some Christmas spirit. Despite the chaos of the farm interfering with her event planning, Molly is looking forward to a family Christmas, hopeful that the holidays will bring the family together, but Shelby it seems has ideas of his own. As the fundraiser draws near, the team are working hard to pull off a spectacular festive fete, and make sure the animals and humans remain on their best behaviour. 401pp, paperback.

'Thriller of the Year, this is a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller by the TV frontman of SAS: Who Dares Wins and who has achieved the Holy Trinity of the UK's Elite Forces. Ant Middleton writes thrillers 'that can come only from boots-in-the-mud experience.' Mallory - he was the best of the best, a Special Forces leader and a hero, but then he made a fatal decision, gambling with the lives of his men with terrible consequences. Two dead and his young friend Donno left in a coma. Back on the streets with nothing to lose, Mallory has a darkness growing inside him, and a dangerous need to seek out trouble. Then Donno's mother asks him for help - her other son Scott has gone missing in South Africa and she wants Mallory to find him. Perhaps it's redemption, perhaps he's looking for revenge on the world, but suddenly Mallory has a purpose and nothing and no one is going to stand in his way. Large sized softback, 434pp with fairly large print.

2022 paperback from the bestseller charts first time discounted. In the 1930s, Stalin's activists marched across the Soviet Union in the first step in creating a man-made famine that, in Ukraine, stole almost four million lives. Inspired by the history the world forgot, author Erin Litteken reimagines their story. In 1929 Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin's men arrive in her village it's just a few, a little pressure to join the collective, but soon neighbours disappear and those who speak out are never seen again. Resistance has a price and survival seems more a dream than a possibility, but even in the darkest times, love beckons. 70 years later, a young widow finds her grandmother's journal, one that will reveal the long-buried secrets of her family's haunted past. This is a novel that shines an unflinching light on historical atrocities while at the same time celebrating the resilience of the human spirit. 338pp,

A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank. Footsteps pound up the stairs. He's been set up. An enemy is closing in and he is cornered. He jumps. Bruised and battered he crawls out of the raging river, alone and unarmed without money or friends, trapped in a deadly conspiracy at the heart of the Empire. The City Watch has orders to take him alive. Other more sinister forces want him dead. As the day dies, he realises he only has 24 hours to expose the conspirators and save the leader of the world. If the Emperor dies, chaos and violence will ensue. If the Emperor dies, every single person he loves will die. He must run, bluff, hide and fight his way across the Seven Hills. He must reach the Colosseum, and the Emperor. He must make it to The Last Hour. Brutal, brilliant and relentless, this is 'Jack Reacher in Ancient Rome' - Ben Kane. The epic tale starts with a chilling assassination and is a tale of ruthless ambition and revenge by one of our favourite writers of historical military fiction solidly based on a profound understanding of what it meant to be alive in a particular time and place. 366pp, paperback.

Jack Morgan is having a bad week. His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack's clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach. But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse - a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there's more bad news - Hollywood's golden couple Thom and Jennifer Harlow have been kidnapped, along with their adopted children. It looks like the whole world is about to discover whether Private are really as good as they say they are. 501pp, paperback.