Llanegwen - on the coast of North Wales - used to be an attractive, healthy place for respectable people. But now it's a mixed bag of allsorts - there's a masked rapist stalking the streets, a petty thief with an eye to the main chance and anonymous businessmen who take over the local sweet factory after a highly convenient death. And when there is a polite and discreet demonstration by the workers outside his home, Mark Treasure is drawn into a fight to save their pension fund and even their jobs. Treasure needs all his skills as a banker to uncover the layers of greed and deceit at the factory. But he must turn sleuth again when a saucy scamper around the shop-floor ends in a bizarre double murder. Can he get to the heart of the mystery before everything goes sour and another life is lost . . . ? 'His sense of character is as keen as his sense of place, and the plot, while as thick as the sugar syrup it involves, is also completely convincing. Tasty fare.' "Financial Times" 'Treasure is a likable suave hero' "Booklist" 'An efficient, deft thriller.' "Publishers Weekly"

It's high summer in Oxford. The university vacation has just begun. The eight governors of the Moneybuckle Endowment (an architectural library) are assembling at All Saints College for the annual dinner before their meeting under chairman Mark Treasure, merchant banker. The talk at the table is of some pricey sketches said to be by Constable, and an offer from a dealer in the town. But the talk turns to shock when murder's done in Walton Street with the sketches as the obvious motive. The police are quick to make an arrest, but Treasure is sure they've got the wrong suspect-even though all other likely culprits are Moneybuckle governors, or Moneybuckle's custodian himself. 'As nifty a puzzle as clever Williams has yet devised, redolent with the reddest of herrings.' "Sunday Times" 'Elegant, literate, ingenious and a joy to read.' "Birmingham Post"

A vicar's wife begins a campaign to save her husband's failing church from a shady group of land speculators and is promptly killed in a seeming accident, spurring financier and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure to action

The Closter Drug company is going to double in value as soon as it perfects its cure for migraine: most of the directors are set to make sizeable fortunes as they float the company on the Stock Exchange. When a group pledged to stopping experiments on animals demonstrates at a Closter news conference, the action is seen as no more than embarrassing. But the kidnap of one of the Closter directors that follows cannot be so easily ignored, especially when, instead of a ransom, the kidnappers demand that the other directors sell their company shares at a crippling loss... No one understands what the kidnappers themselves are gaining by this, until banker Mark Treasure - the non-executive Chairman of Closter Drug - returns from an American trip and works out what's really happening. Even so, he is too late to prevent two murders and the stock market skulduggery that decimates Closter management and threatens to wipe out the company. The fourteenth of David Williams' elegant and intelligent Mark Treasure murder mysteries, Prescription for Murder is a perfect corporate puzzle with a cast of truly unique characters.

After the two financial managers for the valuable Chiversley convent are mysteriously murdered, the area bishop asks Mark Treasure to look into the case, and Treasure proceeds to unravel the mystery.

Selling a stately home's grounds for a leisure complex gets a mixed reception and stirs local scandals, until all are dwarfed by a ghoulish murder. This Mark Treasure novel is written by the author of "Treasure by Post".

"Williams continues to astonish with his subtlety and assured comic invention". DAILY TELEGRAPH Sir Ray Bims is in a lot of trouble; he's about to be charged as the principal in a Caribbean bank that's laundering international drugs money. He's also refused an offer from Lord Grenwood to buy back the Eel Bridge Rovers Football Club. When Bims is found dead, suicide seems the obvious verdict - but DI Jeckels has other ideas, and becomes convinced there is a more sinister explanation - murder! It soon becomes clear that it's going to take the unique skills of banker sleuth Mark Treasure to crack the case.