Mick Rogers had his heart broken by Maria. He tries but can never forget the woman he loved and who stole his very soul and now he sees himself as a man that women will always turn away from and consider to be stupid and not worth the effort. So what happens when 'fate' brings him and his beloved Maria and her family together? Why are people around them changing their personalities, some of them finding it easy to kill? And what has Maria's little sister got to do with the changes that mor...

'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily MirrorMaria Price is a survivor of the care system who thought she would never have a family or security again. She's just inherited a house and a bank account, and things appear to be looking up.Joel Parry - good-looking, charming and a wonderful lover - seems to know everyone who is anyone in Manchester. He just happens to need a place to stay.Before lo...

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated seriesA junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly unconventional taste in men. When she vanishes, her friend Phoebe fears the worst—and calls on her father, forensic pathologist Quirke, for help.Sober again after intens...

A DELICIOUSLY UNSETTLING TALE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE THAT DELVES INTO THE MIND OF A MAN WITH A CHILLING DOUBLE LIFE.Mr. Heming loves the leafy English village where he lives. As a local real estate agent, he knows every square inch of the town and sees himself as its protector, diligent in enforcing its quaint charm. Most people don't pay much attention to Mr. Heming; he is someone who fades easily into the background. But Mr. Heming pays attention to them. You see, he has the ke...

The very first Miss Read novel - set in a charming 1950s English countryside community, perfect nostalgia for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE or Gervase Phinn.'An affectionate, humorous and gently charming chronicle ... sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing' New York TimesFairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and at the heart of the school, its headmistress, Miss Read.Through her discerning e...

THE GENTLEMAN AND THE LAMPLIGHTER is a historical romance short story about two men from different worlds who find acceptance—and red-hot passion—in each other's arms. From Summer Devon, who writes "gay Victorian romance with emotional tension" (Publishers Weekly).You Can't Walk Away from Love.Destroyed by the death of his former schoolmate yet unable to show it publicly, Giles Fullerton has taken to walking the streets of ...

Just one cruel twist of fate will bring his world crashing down . . .Perfect for fans of EastEndersFalling asleep on the bus after a hard day's work, Joe finds himself stranded in the East End, disorientated in the heavy fog and innocently embroiled in a violent encounter. The incident ends in murder and Joe is accused - of the real villains there remains not a trace.But his memory of that fateful night, and a clue to the identity o...

No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles.Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalis...

Book Six in the Sam Smith Mystery Series.Secrets and Lies - Suicide or Murder?Most of the people I encounter are hiding a secret and many of them are adept at telling lies. However, how do you learn the truth about someone who's no longer with us?Author, Barclay Quinton wrote Fabringjay, the story of a man leading a secret life during the Second World War, which was well received by the critics, but was ignored by readers, and Illicit Lust, a book he hated and wrote...

A funny, moving story from the AFTERLIFE worldSkye, a fourteen-year-old who can see ghosts, is feeling very stressed. Not only is the ghost of a sixteenth-century witch giving her fashion tips, but she's struggling to settle into life with her aunt, and is developing a crush on the most unattainable boy in the school, Nico. When her aunt asks for help with a troubled teen ghost called Dontay, she's glad of the distraction, and she's soon facing a battle to keep her love life and he...

With signature wit and whimsy, the inimitable Daniel Pinkwater introduces an eccentric, endearing babysitter every child will wish they could have.Nick and Maxine live in a tall building with one apartment on top of another. So when they look out their window and see a little house they never knew was there, of course they must visit (especially when their parents tell them not to!). Going through the boiler room, they’re amazed to find to a secret backyard with a ...

Marilyn Monroe has been brutally murdered. Tough, streetwise (and let’s be truthful here – tightwad) ex-cop PI Grace Smith is hired to track down the murderer... But this isn't LA. It’s a seedy run down English resort and Marilyn Monroe is a decidedly dead donkey.Grace is inexorably drawn into a web of greed, betrayal and murder, whilst she gamely sticks to her mantra of ‘What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine if I can blag it’. As the tentacles of the case stretch out to to...