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Four men calmly walked out of the Ozark Branch of the First National Bank with close to $50,000. It was the perfect hold-up - until it all went wrong. Shot as he rode away, Frank Jerome had a harsh choice. Should he try to make it back to Mississippi, or let the other three escape without being s...

Grace's life is perfectly fine, thank you very much. A widow of seventy-two, she lives quietly; though hearing a little more from her daughter and granddaughter would be nice, she has her health, her friends, her over-sixties yoga (however reluctantly attended) - and, most of all, her weekly club...

In 1824, Lyme Regis is as tumultuous as the sea that surrounds it. Wealthy holidaymakers dance in the Assembly Rooms whilst the poor riot over the price of bread, scientists do battle with theologists, and amidst it all, one woman is about to make an extraordinary discovery. When 24-year-old Ada ...

Sheltered and naive Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. C...

1922. After the horrors of the Great War, the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on their busy Hampshire farm. The two Truscott sisters are on very different paths. Kate is happily married to Albert, content to be a mother and farmer's wife. Her younger sister Dot sets her heart ...

The Isle of Wight has always felt like a safe place to live for keen dog-walker and reluctant sleuth Susan. But after being involved in the investigation of a troubling crime near her old home, Susan decides to move to the peaceful village of Bishopstone. Susan loves the sense of community and im...

Gwinny Tuffel is preparing for her first acting role in a decade in the West End, but she is dog-sitting on the side to keep the wolf from the door. So, when ageing rock star Crash Double needs help with his Border Collie, she jumps at the chance. After all, looking after the charming Ace on Cras...

Greece, 1941. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes his Nazi captors. He is taken into a safe house by Tasoula Paschilidou, a dressmaker and a member of the Greek resistance movement, who hides fugitives until they can be smuggled to safety. She em...

When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that di...

Nicole Wilde's life has not panned out how she expected. Ten years ago when she was living the rock star lifestyle as a music journalist - touring the country, going to gigs and hanging out with celebrities - she never thought she would end up living an uneventful life in suburbia, in a relations...

Olive Anderson is dining alone at a hotel when a glamorous stranger joins her table, pretending to be her wife. What starts as a thrilling game quickly turns into something dangerous. But as much as the fake wife has her secrets, Olive just might have more...

When your old life ceases to exist, its time to build a new one... It's early summer on the French Riviera when Vivienne Wilson arrives for a one-woman writers retreat after learning that her philandering husband or 30 years, wants a divorce. There to collect the shell-shocked Vivienne is recentl...

When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin. After a week of partying, she starts at the only job she can get, working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.On a solo night shift, Lou wakes to discover that she has...

When Callie Reynolds arrives at Glenmore, the property she's recently inherited, the last thing she needs is to be saddled with a warty horse, an injured neighbour and a mad goose. Haunted by her sister's death and her fractured family, all she wants is freedom. But Callie hasn't counted on falli...

Louisa and Kip, happily married for nearly forty years, have raised their children and are now settling into a new phase of life where they'll have more time for themselves. Everything seems perfect. But then, one Boxing Day after a lovely family Christmas, Kip tells Louisa that he wants a divorc...

After finding her fiance in a compromising position with her cousin, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. When a lawyer turns up on her doorstep with news that she has inherited a beautiful Victorian house, Sonya thinks maybe this is just the change of scene she needs. The house - nicknamed Lost Brid...

Glasgow, WW2. Despite being shy and reserved, Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day war is announced. Unsure if she would ever get another proposal, Jeannie accepts. But with war raging on, her wedding must wait... As she sets off to work at a munitions factory she meets Eileen, J...

A secluded villa... When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he's pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich - what could possibly go wrong? A glittering gathering... Inside the high walls of the pa...

Paris, 1899. Abigail Wilson has received an invitation from Professor Alphonse Flamand, a prominent French Professor of Archaeology, to join him on an archaeological dig in Egypt. Overjoyed to be presented with such an opportunity, Abigail and her husband, Daniel, travel to Paris to meet the prof...

1866. On a dark, brooding summer's evening, Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compartment on the train to Portsmouth. She is joined by a naval officer and a middle-aged man, in high spirits after dining at his club, travelling to his home on the Isle of Wight. His name is Giles B...