Synopsis LISBON, 1943: When her cover is blown, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay flees Paris. Pursued by the Gestapo, she makes her way to neutral Lisbon, where Europe’s elite rub shoulders with diplomats, businessmen, smugglers, and spies. There she receives new orders – and a new identity. Posing as wealthy French widow Solange Verin, Elisabeth must… Continue reading ‘City Of Spies’ by Mara Timon
Synopsis Manchester, November 1940 As the war continues and secrets threaten the railway girls, they will discover the true meaning of friendship. For Dot, her job on the railways is everything. Transporting parcels around the country gives her pride that she is doing her bit for the war effort, but a growing friendship causes problems when… Continue reading ‘Secrets Of The Railway Girls’ by Maisie Thomas
Synopsis There’s nothing quite like a Christmas love story, to get you in the mood for celebrating… Cara doesn’t do sexy and she only does ‘Happy Christmas’ under duress. She is, after all, a serious musician, and her stubborn streak is born from her struggle to recover from a serious injury. Javi lives for escapist… Continue reading ‘My Christmas Number One’ by Leonie Mack
Synopsis TWO VICTIMS WITH NO PASTS A man is found stabbed to death on the Southampton morning commuter train. But why can’t Detective Sophie Allen’s team find out anything about his history? And why was he staying in a house that seems to be owned by a government security unit? Then there is another stabbing,… Continue reading ‘Ruthless Crimes’ by Michael Hambling
Synopsis In the week before Christmas, two people are brutally murdered in their homes. There is no sign of a struggle and both victims have had their throats slashed open.Detective Jason Smith is on holiday for the Christmas period, but he finds himself in the middle of the investigation before he knows it.There are no… Continue reading ‘Motive’ by Stewart Giles
Synopsis A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except his past. An outsider himself, DS George Cross is drawn to this case. The discovery of the dead man’s connection to an old cold case then pulls Cross in further. Convinced this is where the answer to the murder lies, he sets about solving another that… Continue reading ‘The Dentist’ by Tim Sullivan
Synopsis In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still… Continue reading ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ by Richard Osman
Synopsis Some secrets are too big to bury… Investigative journalist Emma Hunter never thought she’d be a bestselling author. Especially not for a blistering exposé of the brutal horrors committed at an orphanage. Some secrets breed in the dark… All she wants is to return home to the anchoring salt air and solitude of Weymouth… Continue reading ‘Ransomed’ by M. A. Hunter
Synopsis It was teatime on Tuesday, and nobody had died yet… May 1918 In a world where the men are at war and the women keep the home fires burning, Christabel Fyttleton is faced with domestic crises involving lodgers, rationing, maypole dancers and Kaiser Bill (don’t ask!) – as well as her most daunting challenge… Continue reading ‘The Merry Month Of Murder’ by Nicola Slade
Synopsis From grieving widow… 1851. After her merchant husband saved her from a life of prostitution, Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a housewife in Bristol. But then a constable arrives at her door. Her husband has been found hanged in a Bath hotel room, a note and a key to a property in Bath the… Continue reading ‘A Widow’s Vow’ by Rachel Brimble
