After ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother’s old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through...

When private investigator Elvis Cole agrees to take on Jodi Taylor as a client, he assumes it will be a run-of-the-mill kind of investigation. Jodi Taylor may be a beautiful, and successful...

In ‘Made in America’, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn’t won, why Americans...

Back on his home turf of Los Angeles, private investigator Elvis Cole is slap-bang in the middle of a high-profile and controversial murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his...

A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood’s heyday, this was Fitzgerald’s last work and he died without completing it. The novel’s tragic tycoon hero is Stahr and, caught in the...

Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne is too late... Too late to save the one man who knew the truth - the star witness who was about to blow the whistle on the biggest banking scandal in history. Too...

When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike - and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his...

Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend’s ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life – when he receives an ominous phone call from the...

Having seen Europe with a rucksack on his back and a youthful spring in his step twenty years earlier, Bill Bryson decides to make a sentimental journey back to that familiar territory - to savour...

Having seen Europe with a rucksack on his back and a youthful spring in his step twenty years earlier, Bill Bryson decides to make a sentimental journey back to that familiar territory - to savour...

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are...

Two minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it’s a lifetime in jail.

Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they’ll tell you...

‘The Martian Chronicles’ tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness...

Ellen Lang has lost something very valuable indeed—her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but PI Elvis Cole and his sociopath sidekick aren’t thrilled by the prospect of...

Elvis Cole is once again coming to terms with life as a PI on the streets of Los Angeles. He loves his girlfriend, but their relationship is stretched to the limit when Cole’s job brings danger...