Old and new readers, I hope, coming back for more. And there is another Sam Becket thriller out in July. Titled "HELL", it's pretty clear that much of my past year has been spent making life as tough as I can for poor Sam and Grace. I can only hope that you'll approve – and that you'll go on letting me know what you think of old and new titles (by email or Twitter). To be honest, I don't think that Twitter and I get on too well, but I love finding out that readers are following me – and it reminds me to Tweet now and again, since otherwise I'm too busy writing or researching or getting on with 'life' to remember! As I am beginning to learn, though, it's another great way to feel connected to readers all over the world.

It's 25 years this summer since my first novel, "IN LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP", was published. Doesn't time fly? I find it hard to believe.

HELL

The small scarlet box wrapped with white ribbon looks appealing, but its contents are pure horror – a human heart. When the grisly package is found in a toy dinghy tied up to the dock at the back of his house, Detective Sam Becket fears it can only mean one thing: that Cal the Hater, the psychotic killer with a personal grudge against his family, is back again.

As mutilated bodies and more hearts are found, tensions rise, and Sam's wife, child and adolescent psychologist Grace Lucca Becket, is already becoming uncharacteristically edgy. And that's before she finds herself in the kind of personal hell she could never have imagined possible.

Hell, for Sam Becket, is not being able to find any way to help her.

HELL will be published by Severn House Publishing in the UK on July 28 2011, and in the US on November 1. And the trade paperback edition of CAGED is out now on both sides of the Atlantic.

Also available for download now, Kindle editions of SHIMMER and CAGED.