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"1873. Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have arrived at Matthew's grand family home in Maine for the wedding of his sister Martha. But preparations are thrown into chaos when a body is discovered in an upstairs bedroom. And that's not the only skeleton...
"During the traditional Halloween festivities, one of Maggie Miller's customers comes to a sticky end in this entertaining cozy mystery. It's Halloween, and cafe owner Maggie Miller's special pumpkin spice beignet promotion is proving popular. But the...
"February, 1922. Hollywood is young but already mired in scandal. When a leading movie director is murdered, Irish-American investigator Tom Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumoured to be involved....
"A dinner party descends into chaos - and death - in the latest gripping Abbot Agency mystery. Attending a birthday celebration for two young girls, Bea Abbot tries not to let superstition get the better of her when she realizes they are thirteen at ...
"When Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts brings his fiancee, trauma surgeon Carrie Walker, to his remote home island in the Bering Strait, they are faced immediately with a medical crisis. Then Russian helicopters swarm in. America is on the eve of...
"Ishmael Jones is attending the re-opening of Tyrone's Castle, an ancient Cornish inn originally built by smugglers. Over dinner, the guests entertain one another with ghost stories inspired by local legends. But it would appear the curse of Tyrone's...
"The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He's dressed in a $2000 suit, yet half his teeth are rotten and his skin is bad. Who was he ... and how did he end up there? When he's offered an exorbitant fee...
"October, 1093. Two young men have been brutally beaten to death; a third viciously attacked. All three men are of similar appearance. But could there be another connection? Lassair meanwhile has agreed to accompany her former lover Rollo on a peril...
"When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the co...
"A Faberge Egg is stolen and a trail of dead bodies follow - Poppy Denby must unearth the secrets that it contains."--Publisher's description.
"London, 1942. 13-year-old Nell and five-year-old Olive are being sent away from the devastation of the East End. They are leaving the terror of the Blitz and nights spent shivering in air raid shelters behind them, but will the strangers they are placed...
"Liverpool, 1941. Haunted by the death of her sister, June Lavender takes a job at a Dr Barnardo’s orphanage. June couldn’t save Clara from their father’s violence, but perhaps she can help children whose lives have been torn apart by war. When June...
"Hyderabad, India. 1798. Beatrice Sinclair, a grieving young widow facing financial destitution, has travelled from Hampshire to Hyderabad to visit her brother, an employee of the British East India Company. There, she is astonished to discover that he...
"A village without a voice. That's what the locals are saying about Llandegwen, deep in the Welsh valleys. The village choir, once a source of pride for the small mining community, has been forced to disband; the elderly choirmaster heartbroken by the...
"It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where...
"In the midst of the war, as Cornwall prepares for potential invasion, two sisters, Amelia and Adele, find the influx of American GIs a welcome distraction from the grim realities of life. But on a heady night of celebration, a betrayal is committed that...
"Vian and Nell are thrown together at the age of five when Vian's mother and Nell's father fall in love. At first wary of each other, they soon become the best of friends. But five years later, they are torn apart and Vian moves to the other side of the...
"One magical summer Nell fell in love in the mountains of Crete and her life changed for ever. 18 years later, Nell is ready for a new beginning. When she sees a honey farm in the same hilltop town has lost its bees, the opportunity is impossible to ...
"Joel lives in a nursing home and he's not one bit happy about it. He doesn't like being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. In fact, he doesn't like living at all, and he's decided he's going to end his life on his terms. When he...
"Leanne and her teenage daughter Abby have recently been forced to move from London back to Kesterley-on-Sea, to Ash Morley Farm where Leanne grew up. Leanne's husband Jack, Abby's father, killed himself over a year ago, and the pair are still reeling...
"The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change. Here, amongst...
When exiled Prince Stefan learns that he might inherit land in his principality, he sees a chance to honour his late mother. However, beguiling Holly Romano, whose family work the estate, is also named in the will - and the land goes to whomever marr...
Is life outside the palace walls... everything she's dreamed of? When billionaire Gio Grassi rescues a beautiful stranger on the streets of Florence he never imagines she'll be royalty! Princess Luciana's innocence compels Gio to protect her, and her...
If ruthless developers want Mariana Balducci's land, they'll have to kill her for it. And they nearly succeed - until Ty Morrison foils her attacker. The sexy San Francisco cop is part of a secret organization called Frontier Justice. Mariana is tough,...
Lawyer and bride-to-be Abigail had her life mapped out. Good job, wealthy fiance - it was perfect... too perfect. Then gorgeous bad-boy-turned-cop Raff re-entered Abby's life, landing her with an adorable homeless dog and a whole lot of trouble...
The beginning of a very long journey... together? Quinn Laverty and her young sons are planning to start a new life on the other side of the country! With her family abandoning her and her ex choosing wealth and privilege over fatherhood, her boys are...
From making the royal bed... To carrying the royal heir! It's the day of the royal wedding, and everyone who's anyone is in attendance - except the bride! Refusing to let being jilted disrupt his kingdom, duty-bound, cold-hearted Sheikh Zufar commands...
He's the billionaire she should resist... but he's the billionaire she's bound to! Hotel tycoon Lukas Blackstone is shocked to learn he has an orphaned nephew - and he's infuriated by the electricity sizzling between him and his nephew's guardian, B...
Kassie's scandalous family has left her craving a life in the shadows - not the spotlight. And then King Giorgos Nicolaides kidnaps her, demanding information about his missing sister! She knows nothing - but their potent attraction unlocks a desire ...
Nicolo Santo Domenico's marriage to heiress Chiara is purely for convenience - until their explosively passionate wedding night! But when Chiara realises that Nico's reasons for seducing her are as cold as his heart, she flees their fledgling marriage....
For a stolen night of freedom, ever-dutiful Princess Halina throws caution to the wind and succumbs to the seduction of notorious Rico Falcone. Yet the consequences of their insatiable passion lands Lina in royal disgrace. When she's hidden away to conceal...
After being plucked from peril by resolute bachelor Lord Hugo Alastair, Lady Olivia Beauchamp is secretly outraged that he doesn't even try to steal a kiss! He's a notorious rake amongst the ton, and as a result utterly forbidden to an innocent debutante...
Adventure awaits! And it starts with his kiss... Part of Russian Royals of Kuban: Princess Anna-Maria Petrova has known stoic, upstanding Prince Stepan Shevchenko all her life. Or at least she thought she knew him. Because he's never before looked at...
'I do have an option to offer you.' Three months between the Greek's sheets! Blackmailed into the billionaire's bed? Elvi can't believe her attempt to appeal to heartless Xan's benevolent side has gone so wrong! But to save her stepmother's job she n...
One magical night... could change their lives for ever! After her ex leaves her penniless, Nurse Molly Murphy takes an admin job in Dr Ryan McFetridge's practice. When Ryan needs a date for a charity ball Molly finds herself wearing a gorgeous gown and...
She needs an heir... But not a husband! Gabrielle Frost knows that marrying any man would mean handing over control of her beloved family vineyard in Portugal to her new husband. She won't take that risk. But she needs an heir! So when Nathaniel Gray...
She can't resist the doc from her past! But do they have a future? In this Hot Greek Docs story, obstetrician Erianthe Nikolaides is returning home to Mythelios - and dreading seeing her sinfully hot ex Dr Ares Xenakis! She's still haunted by the dev...
A date with her former flame... brings the past flooding back! Doctor Naomi always thought her ex didn't want kids. So she's shocked to find Dr Christos Moustakas at her new workplace - and he's now a single dad! Chris has dropped his playboy ways, but...
For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. And so Jaxie runs....
There's a crisis in paradise! But is her heart at risk? When Dr Amber Berkeley meets ruggedly handsome Jack at a conference in Hawaii, she never imagines they'll end up locked down together in the middle of a hurricane! Army doc Jack's take-charge at...
One night, unexpected consequences... But can they be a family? When sparks fly with Dr Gabriel Marks at a conference, Nurse Zoe Avery's left with a permanent reminder of their night together. Knowing Gabe doesn't want kids, she decides she'll have the...
1864: Suddenly left as the head of the family, Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep her family together against the odds. Evicted from their resplendent home in the fashionable part of York after her parents' deaths, Kitty must fight the...
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin,...
This collection of stand-alone short stories is a treat for new readers and dedicated fans alike. In each of these seventeen stories, an ordinary person takes on an extraordinary journey to a new life, discovering facets and strengths they never knew...
Wrongly disgraced and her career left in tatters, palaeontologist Darcy Manning embarks on a mission to expose the fossil smuggling syndicate responsible, to clear her name and reputation. But how will she resist alluring country boy and fellow foss...
After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son Daniel and his teenage sister Freya with her. The family move from Sydney to Newcastle, where Roy has bought a derelict house on the coast. As Roy painstakingly...
It begins with the normally healthy Beth - aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Gem - feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. 'There are a few things here that aren't quite right,' says Dr Yi, 'and sometimes...
Old-time lawman Charlie Crow finds peace in Wyoming; but before he can settle down permanently, he must face a distant and dangerous past. Old ghosts, graves and range wars, greed and double-cross mark the long trail back to his youth in the Texas bo...
This is a story of murder, greed and corruption littering the long dark trail from the East Coast of America, to south Texas. It is the story of Louise Kettle, a frontier woman, and her love for an ageing gunfighter, a man with a voice in the White House....
Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself entangled with Helen, a troubled young English student....
No matter what the odds, US Marshal Alvin LeRoy always completes his assignments. That's why he's been sent after the Reno gang. His pursuit takes him across southwest Texas, where he faces up to bushwhackers and the aftermath of a massacre as he rel...
Danny Roden's Travelling Medicine and Jamboree Show pulls into Bradbury, hoping for a peaceful trip. But trouble quickly finds them in the shape of Jack Donovan. After a failed robbery attempt, Donovan disrupts the lady sharpshooter Smoke Winters' act....
Bolt, the general foreman for Tug Mackintosh's railroad line, is charged with the simple task of meeting and bringing Mack's young bride-to-be to the end of the tracks. Arriving just in time to fend off would-be abductors, Bolt is smitten by the ench...
When Crado Bluestone buys some cattle to start his own ranch, it comes as a brutal shock when he is accused of being a rustler and is strung up from a tree. The real cattle thieves, led by a killer named Monk Purvis, leave him for dead. Help is close...
Two years after the murder of a wealthy Baroness inside Harrington Convent, the orderly everyday affairs of the nuns and students are disrupted anew with unmitigated misfortune. When a body neatly wrapped in brown paper is found by the gardener, Mr. Turtle,...
Contemplating a scheme to plunder a sinister Venetian island of a rumoured hoard, a tour company advisor finds more there than he bargained for... The group gathered for the reading of a will get the shock of their lives... A distant oil-drilling pla...
In this collection of twelve brand-new cases, Sherlock Holmes and his long-serving biographer and companion Doctor Watson face a wide-ranging criminal fraternity. Adventures include a one-time Baker Street Irregular jailed for violent robbery, a devious...
Steeple Bumpleigh is a rural idyll. But for Bertie Wooster, it might as well be marked with a warning that Here Be Dragons, being the domicile of his Aunt Agatha (the one who eats broken bottles and conducts human sacrifices by the light of the full ...
Colin's ghost: In the uncharted jungle of Peru, explorers Colin Davis and Arthur Birnes find the lost city of Kosan, overflowing with gold and gems. Davis intends to share their discovery with the world, but Birnes has more avaricious aims - and he's...
A wave of lawlessness hits the silver-rich Tamarra Hills of Texas, and Texas Ranger "Lone Wolf" Jim Hatfield must face down deadly foes in order to restore peace.
1808: In the South Sea sails H.M.S. Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate under the command of Captain Horatio Hornblower. Having received orders to spark a rebellion in the Spanish American colonies, he must form an alliance with Don Julian Alvarado and help...
1810: Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed H.M.S. SUTHERLAND, the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List. Half his crew consists of raw landsmen; he is so short of funds he has been obliged to pawn his best sword; and he must serve...
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and darkly observant. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind - and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. Lovers...
Watt Coxon arrives in Santa Fe to take up duties as a U.S. Attorney. But he is young and green, and residents reckon he'll be lucky to last a week...
A successful housebreaker who leaves no traces and no clues as he strips Reykjavik homes of their valuables has been a thorn in the police's side for months. But when one night the thief breaks into the wrong house, he finds himself caught in a trap,...
No one in Carniskey has ever truly understood what led Sean Delaney, a seasoned local fisherman, to risk his life in a high storm in the dead of night. Now, three years on from those tragic events, his wife Alison is still struggling with her unresolved...
York, 1798: An artist is found murdered in his home, stabbed with the tools of his trade: a pair of scissors. The people depicted in the final six shades, or silhouettes, made by him become the key suspects - but who are they, and where are they to be...
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. This is the...
1941. Violetta 'Vee' Smith has a secret. Her real name is Schmidt, and she is half German. Vee and her mother May risk being interned as enemy aliens... if their neighbours don't find out and torch their smallholding near Southampton first. Vee and May...
After a cold, hard winter on the streets, three orphan children are about to give up hope when unexpected events bring them to the doorstep of a grand house in Ardwick, Manchester. Taken in by the firm but kind-hearted cook, the young friends can har...
Jonah sits on a bench in Kew Gardens, trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life following the sudden death of his wife, Audrey. Chloe, shaven-headed and abrasive, sits by the lake, finding solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But...
A moving story of heartbreak and friendship in 1950s BritainTilbury, 1950s. The Empire is a pub run by Vi, Doris's mother, but when Doris falls pregnant out of marriage, she is kicked out of the house and forced to fend for herself. Desperate to look...
Hardworking Essie Chapman lives with her boatman father on the banks of the Thames. When an accident leaves him bedridden with only ale to ease his pain, it is Essie who takes up the oars for the family's survival, risking her life to ferry passengers...
After losing her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing she can recapture a sense of family with him. But five years on, she is just another back-street housewife, performing miracles with scrag-end. When she discovers...
Sent to the workhouse as a child, all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering, 'Dearie, promise you will never forget what you saw. Your Ma was killed deliberate... and someone oughter pay for it.' When young, wealthy spinster Letitia Fairch...
What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright...
Stoke Newington, 1863: Little Margaret Lovejoy is found brutally murdered in the outhouse at her family's estate. A few days later, a man is cut down in a similar manner on the doorstep of courtesan and professional detective Heloise Chancey's presti...
Helen Walmsley-Johnson's first husband controlled her life, from the people she saw to what was in her bank account. He alienated her from friends and family and even their three daughters. Eventually he threw her out, and she painfully began to rebuild...
When Mrs Shepherd arrives at the Dales Detective Agency on a December morning, quite convinced that someone is trying to kill her, Samson O'Brien dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused elderly lady. But after a series of disturbing incidents...
When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn't expect a reply. And when Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, neither does he. They're both searching for something - they just don't know it yet. Anders...
When artist Violet Brooke runs away from her London life and apartment, she heads for Sunrise Cottage. Safe in her rural retreat, she can forget about ex-fiance Jayden Fox. The last thing she needs is romance - until she meets handsome Max Finch... As...
The villagers of Stoney Cross are preparing for their "Great Event", the first Stoney Cross Arts Festival, and the enlisting of a local radio presenter to advertise and review their efforts has added an extra frisson of excitement. But delight soon turns...
Twenty-year-old Lexie fears their family-run hotel may be heading for bankruptcy due to her mismanagement. She doesn't know which way to turn when, out of the blue, her father and his stepson Jake get in touch. Lexie had always thought her father was...
Janine is a professional dancer - admired, adored, envied. Her life in Monte Carlo should be glamourous and exciting, but she is desperately unhappy. She suspects her lover, the fascinating Nikko, of cheating on her with rich society women. Nevertheless,...
When Chloe Potter wishes on a star that she'll find a man who'll accept her and her noisy dachshund, Wilma, almost immediately she meets Ryan Green and his boisterous basset hound, Fred. But Ryan's job as a photographer means that when he's not in the...
During a stormy winter's night, Meirian Penlan travels by stagecoach to take up a mysterious post at Blackthorn Manor. Wild and remote, Blackthorn lies amongst the great meres of Lancashire, surrounded by long-held superstitions, tales of witchcraft ...
With his sister Hope about to marry a real-life prince, Max must find a suitable woman to partner with for the official engagement ball in San Michele. Flora Deare, Hope's friend and bridesmaid, is in charge of catering the royal wedding, and has quickly...
When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she's inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. She owes money to a loan shark, and the threats are getting increasingly aggr...
2 March, 1975: In Asmara, Eritrea, Yonas Kelati is born into a world of turmoil. At the same time, on the same day, Jude Munroe takes her first breath in London, England. Thirty years later, blacklisted in his war-ravaged country, Yonas has no option...
Imagine you meet a man, spend seven glorious days together, and fall in love. And it's mutual: you've never been so certain of anything. So when he leaves for a long-booked holiday and promises to call from the airport, you have no cause to doubt him....
Proud single parent Joanna is accustomed to receiving phone calls from her fourteen-year-old son Ryan's school telling her that he's in trouble. When he hits a girl and is excluded, Joanna knows she must take drastic action to help him. Ryan's dad Lex...
Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to stay cheerful despite the Luftwaffe making life thoroughly annoying for everyone. Emmy dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent, and when she spots a job advertisement in the newspaper, she seizes...
Lisa and Elliot have been best friends since the day they met as children. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart, and Lisa is struggling. Her marriage is floundering, her teenage kids are being secretive, and she's so tired she can't thi...
1964: Rina Walker returns for another adventure with deadly consequences, as George Preston defends his turf from rival crime boss Tony Viner's murderous ambitions. London swings while Rina becomes entangled in a web of visceral deceit and double-cross...
Mike knows that most of us go through life searching for that missing person, someone who will make us feel complete. But he and Verity are different. They have found each other, and nothing and no one will tear them apart. It doesn't matter that Verity...
Harry Bosch works cold cases, helping out the under-funded San Fernando Police Department. When a double murder at a local pharmacy is called in, Bosch is the most seasoned detective on the scene. But with experience come the ghosts of long-forgotten...
1919: The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four years of war. Just when the village has begun to regain its tranquillity, a young woman, Myrtle Bligh, is found stabbed and left in a woodland, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove...
1889: Mrs Hudson, long-suffering landlady of 221b Baker Street, falls ill and collapses in her home, and is whisked off by Dr Watson to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Perhaps she has developed an overactive imagination thanks to her eccentric lodgers, but...
Tim Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's THE ARCHERS since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland - without an estate or riches - and the voice of 'Mind the Gap' on the Piccadilly Line. Timothy takes the reader behind the scenes...
"The collapse of a schoolhouse puts pressure on Amish families and their long-held educational values. Ella Hilty anticipates marrying Gideon Wittner and becoming a mother to his children. In a whirling clash of values, Ella seeks the solid ground that...
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