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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...

Life is looking up for Rina Martin, with the expected revival of her television career, but as her happy summer ends, storm clouds are on the horizon . . . Summer in Frantham has been long and lazy. In the Martin Household, change is afoot. Tim is now engaged and preparing to move out, and there is...

Should this 1950s wife and mother stay at home with the children . . . or leave the marriage to reignite the career in music she gave up years ago?   This is the story of Peter and Zina Marchand. We are joining them when they have been married some ten years and he is a film star at the height...

A ghostly Delaware detective must reach the living to save an expectant mother from an untimely demise in this paranormal mystery. In life, Kevin Fahey was an unremarkable cop. But he hasn’t let death stop him from doing his job when he sees something amiss among the living. Haunting the...

Matrimony. An Officer of the Honourable East India Company is greatly desirous of finding a soul-mate to share his life and fortune”. Lonely spinster Phoebe Creswell responds to an advertisement in the Worcester Herald, but are the outwardly charming Major Christophe de Langlois and his companion,...

The eighteenth-century musician and amateur sleuth witnesses a murder in the streets of Newcastle in this “clever mystery full of interesting characters” (Kirkus Reviews). Newcastle upon Tyne, 1736. Newly married to a lady of means, musician Charles Patterson is learning to juggle his devotion...

Musician and sleuth Charles Patterson watches a young woman flee a crime scene in this historical novel with “a chilling mix of murder and the paranormal” (Publishers Weekly). January, 1737. Snow blankets Newcastle upon Tyne, and musician Charles Patterson is engaged in a snowball fight...

When a woman is murdered in an exclusive Bristol residence, Det. Constable Sukey Reynolds must sift through tenants’ complaints to find the killer. Det. Constable Vicky Armstrong and her colleague, DC Sukey Reynolds, are complaining about the lack of new serious cases. Of course, that doesn’t...

A rich young woman takes in a Liverpool slum child in this absorbing historical saga Liverpool, 1924. Racing to meet her fiancé in her father's new-fangled motor car, Penny Forshaw knocks over a little girl and - much to her fiancé's disapproval - feels it her duty to take in six-year-old...

A chance meeting in Liverpool will change Megan Lloyd’s life in ways she could never have imagined . . . August, 1942. 21-year-old Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort – and a chance encounter with an American army officer in Liverpool gives her an idea of how to do...

Two men are found shot dead aboard a luxury yacht, and the key lies with a company that makes computer games. What secret were the men protecting that others were prepared to kill to get hold of? Rina Martin decides to find out, much to the consternation of her friend, DI McGregor. But her impulse to help those threatened puts the people she most cares for in grave danger.

Professor Emily Cavanaugh makes a horrific discovery while writing her book on Dostoevsky in the entertaining fourth Crime with the Classics cozy. Professor Emily Cavanaugh has left Windy Corner behind and is back at Reed College on her sabbatical, determined to finish writing her book on Dostoevsky....

Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins’ total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted...

The discovery of a damaged vase takes Hennessey and Yellich back to a twenty-year-old murder case, with consequences for the present. A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team to take a fresh look at a twenty-year-old unsolved...