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After 30 years of marriage and children flown the nest, Jan decides to meet up with old university friends. But as well as making new friends, the reunion turns into the starting point of a series of unexpected and far from welcome developments which will, ultimately, turn her life upside down.

Following several days of persistent rain in northern India, Captain James Ogilvie of the 114th Queens's Own Royal Strathspeys is one of many British soldiers ordered east from Peshawar to help with the evacuation of flooded Patna. Meanwhile a tidal wave from the Ganges maroons Lieutenant-General Fettleworth in a native hut, and news filters through that the floodbound Rawalpindi-Calcutta train has come under attack from the Pathans. On board the train is 100,000 worth of gold bullion belonging to the Raj, highly desirable to the Pathans, which Ogilvie is immediately sent to rescue. A dangerous game of bluff and double bluff ensues, with Ogilvie at its centre as the flood recedes and time quickly runs out.

The new 'Rina Martin' mystery - When DI 'Mac' McGregor came to Frantham he was a broken man, guilt ridden at the death of a child he had tried to save, and whose killer had escaped. But he found friendship there, in the shape of Rina Martin's strange little household, and romance with CSI Miriam Hasting. But now his past is catching up with him. There are new leads in the child-killer case, and Mac rejoins the hunt - only to become the hunted . . . Can Rina save him from his darkest trouble yet?

Angela, a young girl abducted from Whitebridge Corporation Park, has been missing for over 24 hours and, in the opinion of Dr Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Charlie Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her. Can Woodend and his team find Angela before she is killed?

When James Wilson retires he decides to settle down in Herefordshire with a room mate, a Mr Cedric Coombes, and at first thinks little of his new friend's eccentric behaviour. As Coombes becomes embroiled in a police investigation into a bizarre death, Wilson begins to wonder just who Coombes really is.

Eccentricity is the family byword for the Compton-Milnes - The Compton-Milnes are eccentric, to say the least. A marriage between Gus, a reclusive but brilliant professor, and Lisa, a promiscuous cosmetic surgery addict, has produced Ben, an OCD-riddled genius, and his self-sacrificing sister Harriet, while Gus's acerbic invalid mother rules over them all from her attic throne room. But when Lisa's lover turns on her, the family must pull together to survive . . .

Set in the corrupt world of Restoration London, this is a story of Olivia Paris, a woman whose father was a friend of Oliver Cromwell. It seems as if no escape is possible until the Great Fire provides a solution to her predicament.

Life on Sutherton's Main Street has always been inexplicably hazardous, no matter the season in the North Carolina resort town. People are dying - in greater historical numbers - and unless AnnaLise Griggs can figure out why, her mother may be next.

When, in 1955, forensic pathologist Richard Pryor uses his 'golden handshake' from Singapore to set up in private practice with former Home Office scientist Angela Bray, their risky venture in the Wye Valley depends on getting enough case-work to survive.

1483. Amidst the chaos following the death of King Edward IV and the ensuing tussle for the throne, Roger the Chapman is called to London to investigate a threat to the Godslove family. Soon Roger stumbles upon a shocking secret, one that threatens to destroy the entire Godslove family.

The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling author New Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognises the corpse of the white man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January's closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man . .

Pregnant, and abandoned by her lover, Alice Meredith must make some tough decisions in order to secure a future for herself and the baby. In despair, she allows herself to be persuaded to marry the much older Henry Lightfoot, owner of the Mere Hotel in Chester, where Alice works as assistant manager. While keeping her pregnancy a closely guarded secret, Alice continues her work at the hotel and becomes involved in the lives of many of the guests. There's her good friend Edith, a permanent resident of the hotel, who falls for and runs away with a handsome doctor, with disastrous consequences. Then there's the widowed Mr Lester with his young daughter Perdita, who must face yet more sorrow before long. Life looks like it is finally shaping up for Alice, until a face from the past comes back to Chester to haunt her...

When the Russians learn that the British ambassador to Moscow is to return to London they give orders to the KGB that he is to be drawn into the Soviet net. If they are successful, their plans for Britain can be accomplished. But no-one could have envisaged what would, and does, happen.

When the highly unpopular Henry Mappestone is found killed, his last-surviving brother, the former crusader knight Sir Geoffrey, unwillingly inherits the castle. But while visiting his friend Bishop Giffard, attempts are made on Geoffrey's life, and several other guests are killed. Are these deaths related to Henry's murder?

Murder on the waterways of post-Regency England1827, Redditch, Worcestershire. Thomas Potts is despairing of his courtship of Amy Danks. With neither money nor prospects, she will surely look elsewhere. But when the body of a girl is found in the canal, Potts is drawn into the investigation, and he is sure the 'Leggers', town outcasts who work on the barges, know something. As more murders ensue, Tom risks everything to get to the truth . . .

Lucy, the tavern wench born from the flames that destroyed her past, escapes from the the slums of Restoration London into the household of a merchant and his wife. Always true to her own fiery nature, Lucy rises like a phoenix from the ashes of her past.

James Markham jilts his fiancée for a woman he appears to know very little about. Callum Firbank has always been evasive about his childhood, and his wife realizes she doesn't know much about his family. Jill Irving has everything she could wish for, but she too has secrets in her past. What links these three very different people, and who is the stranger whose sudden appearance causes such terror?

Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't 'do' murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust...after which Denzil had, unexpectedly, died. His widow, 'Lady' Honoria, turns out to be a bullying racist who wants to sue the Trust for defamation of character, while the paperwork that could have proved her husband's guilt has gone missing. Oliver, Bea's computer geek of an assistant, is delighted to delve into the mysteries left on Denzil's computer, while Bea is cajoled into silence by elderly Lord Murchison, whose family has run the charity for ever...and who faces ruin if the truth comes out. Zander and Oliver find themselves suspected of murder, while Bea thinks up a novel way to rescue her son's failing marriage. As the plot thickens, it emerges that although the first death may have appeared natural, those which follow definitely do not.

Queen Eleanor has summoned Abbess Helewise and her party to discuss the building of a chapel at Hawkenlye Abbey, dedicated to the well-being of the soul of her dear son King Richard. Meanwhile, Sir Josse d'Acquin receives secret orders that set him on the trail of a group of mysterious knights rumoured to be devil worshippers.

England, 1663. Angelica Saunders has always felt shut out by her fortunate cousins Hal and Claire. But Hal's destiny will not turn out as golden as it seems - for the sins of his father will return to haunt him.

A Rina Martin Mystery - When a body is washed up on a beach, it's assumed it must be Edward Parker, who fell from a cliff a couple of weeks before. But it is discovered to be that of Pat Duggan, son of local nightclub owner, Jimmy. Pat had been abducted - twice. And, to complicate matters, the missing Edward Parker worked for Jimmy Duggan and disappeared at the same time as Duggan's son. Coincidence? Mac and Rina don't think so . . .

A secret mission. A murdered abbot. A false accusation: the compelling new Sister Fidelma mystery. Ireland, AD 671. Sister Fidelma has a mission, and she is sworn by oath to reveal her purpose to no other. The secret investigation leads her and her companions to the abbey of Finnbarr to question the abbot. But before they have a chance to speak to him, the abbot is found murdered - and the young girl suspected of the crime has fled the scene. As vicious rumours spread, accusing Fidelma's family, the Eóghanacht Kings of Cashel, of conspiring to assassinate the High King and abduct his wife, Sister Fidelma's life is placed in mortal danger. Unable to tell the truth of her quest to anyone, including her husband Eadulf, Fidelma's time is running out - and now she has no choice but to face the challenge, and her enemies, alone

A stranger murdered in a gruesome ritual. A prophetess foretelling the return of the ancient gods: the intriguing new Sister Fidelma mystery. Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'. When a strange woman known as Brancheó appears in a raven-feather cloak foretelling of ancient gods returning to exact revenge upon the mortal world, she is quickly branded a suspect. But in their search for the killer, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf will soon discover a darker shadow looming over the fortress. For their investigation is linked to a book stolen from the Papal Secret Archives which could destroy the New Faith in the Five Kingdoms...and Fidelma herself will come up against mortal danger before the case is unravelled

A young woman determines to find out what happened to her missing sister in this tense and twisting psychological thriller Elvie McCulloch's sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Several young woman in the area have disappeared in similar circumstances, and Elvie's family fears the worst. As Elvie is driving to her new job late at night, the naked, emaciated body of a young woman crashes from high above onto an oncoming car. Elvie recognises her as Lorna Lennox, who has been missing for weeks. But why was she up there? Where had she been all this time? And why was she running for her life? Teaming up with retired detective Billy Hopkirk, who has been retained by the mother of one of the missing girls to find her daughter, Elvie determines to find out the truth. But as the pair alternately collaborate with and infuriate investigating police detectives Anderson and Costello, they find themselves up against a terrifying enemy. Someone who has killed before. Someone who will kill again, for pure enjoyment. Someone they call The Night Hunter.

Ellie and her new husband Thomas are suffering from terrible colds when called to deal with Ursula, a young student, who has staged a sit-in at church and refuses to move. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken engagement, her friend Mia's disappearance, and a murder. As she investigates, Ellie begins to suspect that there is more to these events than anyone is willing to admit. Soon she finds her own friends and family targeted as a powerful group hunts her down. Meanwhile Ellie's ever-demanding daughter Diana makes herself homeless, and her architect cousin lands himself in yet another financial mess. Both become caught up in the race to ruin Ellie before she can produce the dreadful evidence of corruption and abuse that is haunting the council chambers. Every lead returns to Ursula, who has not been entirely open with the truth. But what can one young girl do, against such a powerful family?

When Jinny Hendrie's love leaves Edinburgh to fight in the Second World War, she faces an uncertain future. Do even the darkest clouds have silver linings? 1937, Edinburgh. Attractive, dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office of a large bakery - until handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden walks into her life with the promise of an exciting future. Although her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against it, Jinny is determined to marry Viktor but, when war is declared between Great Britain and Germany, all her plans are in ruins. Austria has joined forces with Hitler; Viktor has become an enemy and must return home to fight. Troubled years lie ahead without news of him, and while Jinny and Ross find new love, there are huge question marks over their future. When the war is over, will Viktor return? And if he does, will this lead to happiness . . . or heartbreak?

A spellbinding saga of family, trust, secrets . . . and love Hampshire 1850. Beth Langton has been running her large family estate for nine months now, after the death of her father. Under the watchful eyes of her godfather and guardian, Lord Edward Sharland, and an excellent estate manager, Henry Greenway, she is loving the work. After a week away with Henry buying cattle, terrible news is waiting for her on her return. The father of her best friend, Lady Helen Denton, has shot himself after running up gambling debts, leaving Helen destitute. Beth persuades Helen to come and live with her, although Helen is too proud to take charity and insists she work as a paid companion. The girls soon settle happily together, but further tragedy awaits. Beth is informed by a stranger that her beloved guardian, away on business, has died. The 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?