Before I Sleep
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Happily married, wealthy Felicity Holland is missing, and no one knows why. DCI Bill Slider and his team will have to move fast if there’s to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul play – nothing to go on at all – where do they even start looking? All they know for sure is that the clock is ticking …
Boston, 1985. Gordon Stevenson, the former ambassador of Laos, has been getting death threats, and he demands private investigator Andy Roark take the case. After what Stevenson did during the Vietnam war, though, Roark’s almost tempted to cheer the man’s would-be assassin on. Then he finds out why he’s been headhunted for the job …
Invitation to a Killer
by G.M. Malliet
Crime novelists Augusta Hawke expects to be quizzed her on writing skills when she’s invited to a dinner party by aspiring writer Callie Moore. What she doesn’t expect is to be solving a mystery, but that’s just want happens when one guest suddenly dies, and Augusta suspects it is not a heart attack that killed the kindly celebrity doctor…
Chalice of Darkness
by Sarah Rayne
Jack Fitzglens plans to seek out the infamous Talisman Chalice, steal it and create a dazzling piece of theater around it, but he uncovers something far darker. Scandal, secrets, and danger lurk in every shady corner. As past and present collide, can Jack find the Chalice, the truth and return to his theater of thieves unscathed?
Sentenced to Death
by Betty Hechtman
When Veronica Blackstone is asked to write the copy for The Friends of Hyde Park’s annual garden tour, she never expected to get involved in a violent death. But that’s exactly what happens when author, Landon Donte, is found dead in a suspected suicide during a dinner to highlight the tour. But Veronica can sniff out murder and soon on the case!
Reflections of Deviance
by A.J. Cross
Marion Cane swapped a successful career in the city for a quiet life in a wealthy village near Birmingham. So why was she found dead in her new home just months later? Marion’s death was thought to be due to natural causes, but an anonymous note draws DCI Watts, PC Chloe Judd and criminologist Will Traynor into a complex and disturbing case.
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