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Tragedy strikes two friends, who must then deal with a stranger on their doorstep. Can he be trusted?
Hampshire, 1850. Beth Langton has been running her large family estate for nine months now, after the death of her father and under the watchful eyes of her godfather and guardian, Lord Edward Sharland. When the father of her best friend, Lady Helen Denton, shoots himself after running up gambling debts, Beth persuades Helen to come and live with her. But further tragedy await when Beth's beloved guardian dies. A stranger claims to be Edward's heir, making him her legal guardian - and he has the paperwork to prove it. But can they trust him? And should they?
A desperate phone call from an old acquaintance plunges forensic psychiatrist Claire Roget into an explosive situation with echoes in her own past.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget receives a desperate call for help from obstetrician Charles Tissot, who's been accused of impregnating one of his patients. His career on the line, Tissot begs Claire to expose his patient's fragile mental state and discredit her wild claims. But is Tissot telling the whole truth?
By popular demand: a welcome return for Simon Brett's actor detective Charles Paris, last seen in 1997's Dead Room Farce.
After a long period of 'resting', life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet, but rehearsals are fraught. When the company reach the first staging post of their tour, matters get more serious, with one member of the company seriously injured in what appears to be an accident, and another dead. Once again, Charles Paris is forced to don the mantle of amateur detective to get to the bottom of the mystery.
The explosive third Harry Tate thriller.
Former MI5 officer Harry Tate's skill at tracking down runaways is second to none - and the Security Services need his help. When MI6 ask him to trace Vanessa Tan, a lieutenant with the Royal Logistics Corps who failed to report for her return flight to Afghanistan, Harry instinctively feels it's a mission to avoid. But when he learns of the involvement of his former boss, Henry Paulton - the man who tried to have him killed - he agrees to take the job, and events soon take an unexpected turn . . .
An enthralling Burren mystery.
April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is celebrating the christening of her son when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning, one of them is found dead on a lone mountain pass with suspicious wounds. He was carrying an important legal document that has now disappeared. But why did he choose to deliver it during the night, and what of the two other missing students? Mara must uncover the truth - and it at first seems that the stolen deed holds all the answers...
A past crime causes new murder in the latest intriguing Kate O'Donnell mystery
1964. DS Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray Robertson, who hasn't been seen for several days. Meanwhile photographer Kate O'Donnell is working on a feature about Canvey Island, finally being rebuilt after the devastating floods of 1953. But it turns out there's a connection with Robertson's disappearance.
Crispin Guest must tackle a number of strange occurrences involving St Modwen's Church and a missing relic in this latest medieval noir mystery
Father Bulthius Braydon begs Crispin Guest for help when corpses are seen stalking St Modwen Church's graveyard, while Crispin's former flame Philippa Walcote's seven-year-old son is accused of murder. St Modwen's seems to link both cases... Can Crispin solve the strange goings-on and prove a child's innocence?
A Hennessey and Yellich Mystery.
When a woman's body is found frozen on a bench one winter's morning, it looks like a simple case of death by misadventure. On closer inspection, however, marks on her neck - and a piece of paper hidden inside her shoe - point towards foul play. But as Hennessey and Yellich investigate, they discover that the victim may not have been all she seemed...
The seventh Jim Rook novel from the master of supernatural horror.
Remedial English teacher and psychic Jim Rook has been feeling out of sorts all summer, and on the first day of the Fall semester he runs over and kills his pet cat, Tiddles. But halfway through his first class, enigmatic new Korean student Kim Dong Wook arrives . . . with a gift: a basket containing Tiddles, alive once more. The Korean spirit Kwisin, Jim is told, is saying 'thank you' in advance. But what for? Jim can't help but feel deeply uneasy . . .
A murder leads Sarah Burke to investigate a money-laundering ring with connections extending far beyond Tucson - but does the key to solving the case lie closer to home than she realises?
The murder of a man during a Tucson Fourth of July street parade plunges Sarah Burke's whole household - including her niece, Denny - into her latest case. The investigation leads to a money-laundering ring with international connections, but could the answers lie closer to home than she realises?