Explores the varied landscapes and wildlife of China.

Are sharks developing a taste for human flesh? A rash of shark attacks off Hawaii spurs a team of researchers to track the predators' elusive movements - and the scientists discover some surprising truths about the way sharks kill.

Loyalty: Peacetime (1807) Hornblower forced to make a living at the gaming tables and caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he is betrayed and temporarily imprisoned. Hornblower and Maria get married. Duty: Admiral Pellew's sends Hornblower off in search of his old mate Bracegirdle, whose sloop Grasshopper...

When two young lovers are found murdered at the base of Nine Sisters Henge, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers are called in to investigate the crime, but as the team digs into the victims' pasts, they discover a bizarre collection of would-be suspects and dangerous enemies.

When Cadfael is called upon to bury rebel soldiers, he finds one body too many and sets about trying to discover who the extra man is and who killed him.

After spending some of her compensation money learning Aikido at a retreat in Cornwall, Havers has been invited by Lynley's mother, Lady Asherton, to stay at the family estate. Lynley is also in Cornwall visiting his mother, but avoiding answering any questions about his relationship with Helen. So when horse trainer Jim Fenner, who lives on a neighboring estate, is found hanged in his stable, it is a welcome diversion to delay the inevitable questioning....

Cadfael investigates the disappearance of holy relics after a group of monks come to ask for charity.

Lynley and Havers are assigned to a new case back in London, following the discovery of a body floating in the Thames. The victim, Eric Ramsey, was a doorkeeper at the House of Lords. On closer inspection, it appears that he has been savagely beaten, having had his hands tied behind his back. Initially, it looks as if the murder may be connected to Ramsey's gambling debts, but when a Clerk at the House of Lords is also murdered, events seem to point...

When a body is found in the hustle and bustle of the annual cripple's day, Cadfael takes the body for investigation but later finds that it has been stolen.

Cadfael investigates the death of a woman after her body is dug up on a potter's field that has just been donated to the abbey.