Izzy feels blessed to inherit her grandmother's cottage. Moving from Devon to Sussex should be advantageous for her because her popular grandmother's friends could also be useful for her. As a freelance musician playing the piano in a hotel bar besides teaching, local contacts with goodwill should help her. Yet once her life mingles with her grandmother's remenants troublesome situations arise, arousing possible publicity, which might be useful to Izzy but appal the rest of her family, esp...

The past haunts the present as journalist Impey Dalrymple finds. Ghosts are unleashed when she introduces her childhood playmate Natty Bell to her new friend Lady Olga Brancaster.  Natty, now a television interviewer, wants to join Bisley Heath Golf club where Lady Olga Brancaster is President.  Though unimpressed by Natty's celebrity status, Lady Olga is excited to hear that Natty has worked on a programme which traces people's ancestry for Olga has Russian ancestors.

"I'm talking to a man who's had four wives and keeps a wolf!" Penniless journalist Impey Dalrymple is glad for the chance of a job, until she realises its implications.  She would like to refuse the offer, but Jules Challenger, a debt-collector, has ways of persuading people to work for him.  The attractive charistmatic man, who keeps a vulture as well as a wolf,  wants to know why and who has vandalised his firm's symbol, ...

Seeking a civilised sanctuary from her sordid marriage, anthropologist Impey Dalrymple joins a grand old golf club. There she finds herself plunged into strange old-fashioned customs.  Soon she lands herself in trouble with the hierarchy, until the club's top players find they need her.  When a prominent club member is killed on the club's grounds, Impey's knowledge of animnal societies and how they are replicated in human groups, slides her into the role of a reluctant sleu...

THe Passion Principle Fenella believes in love.  She sacrificed her career to be available as a companion for Gordon her lover, spending the time he is not around in turning their house in a beautiful love nest.  For fifteen years she led the glamorous life of a financier's mistress, an elegant London house, designer clothes, world travel and acceptance in society.  However, when his wife, desperate to regain her husband, takes up residence in the same road, Gordon f...

'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson One Summer Night at the Ritz is the enchanting fourth story in Jenny Oliver’s delicious Cherry Pie Island series. For Jane Williams, balmy August evenings are usually spent swimming in the river or lounging on her house boat on Cherry Pie Island. But, this summer, a set of tragic wartime diaries has changed all that. Now, Jane’s heading for an appointment with Will Blackwell, one of the world’s most infamous ...

Not everyone who's missing is lostHard-hitting and unputdownable, THE LOST follows Forensic psychologist Maguire back to her hometown in the search for two missing girls. This exhilarating introduction to the Paula Maguire series by Claire McGowan is sure to grip fans of Elly Griffiths and LJ Ross.'Claire McGowan is a knockout new talent' - Lee ChildWhen two teenage girls go missing along the Irish border, forensic psycholo...

Three terrifying short stories by Anthony Horowitz, a master storyteller and the bestselling author of the Alex Rider series.It's Hallowe'en, but the living dead on the Night Bus aren't trick or treaters. And when Nick and Jeremy get on board, it looks like the bus is not going to be taking them home...When his dad picks up a hitchhiker, Jacob find himself in a life or death situation. Could the hitcher be on the run from the nearby Maximum Security Unit? For sure, someone in...

Caffy Tyler believes she has well and truly left her old life behind her, in spite of her emotional and physical scars. Living in rural Kent, with a new job and new friends, she feels safe, and for the first time in her life happy. However a series of troubling events bring this brief feeling of contentment to a sharp half. The combination of seeing a dead body through the window of a house she is painting, and then running into her ex-boyfriend, a drug-dealer, in the local supermarket thr...

Emily was like her ninety-nine brothers and sisters, until she won all the eight-legged races at spider sports. People grew suspicious. And then, they counted her legs. She had ten!It's not her fault, but everyone turns against her. But there's something very special about Emily's legs that will change her life for ever . . .

A wry, entertaining story about falling in love with a man whose shirtless picture adorns every second lunchroom wall and then doing your best when the relationship takes an unexpected turn . . .Helen McNeil is a vet in the small rural town of Broadview. While taking evasive action from a dull girl at a party one night she falls over - and fails to recognise - national sporting hero, Mark Tipene. For some mysterious reason Helen never really grasps, Mark finds this...

'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson Welcome to Cherry Pie Island – once you step on to the island, you’ll never want to leave! Socialite Emily Hunter-Brown has just bought the old manor house on Cherry Pie Island – and her friends think she’s gone mad! Still, they should have known that wild-child Emily will try anything once…even settling down! But when Emily discovers she has an allotment to take care of as well as the crumbling mansion, she’...