When Judy Blackwell joins a belly dancing class she is only looking for a distraction from her empty marriage and emptying nest. She doesn't expect to get caught up in the lives and loves of the other women in the group. As the women make exotic costumes and learn to undulate and shimmy, their menfolk are drawn into the circle. Maybe it's all that wine they keep drinking, but soon everyone finds t... More >

Gina Brennan is on the run from a lot of things. Especially prison. She and two cellmates have escaped and it looks like they’re nearly home free.That’s until wealthy solicitor Billy Hendrick has his brains blown out and the girls are seen running away. Although he’s a cop Rob O’Connell is also on the run. His wife is in a coma and he’s ducking and diving to avoid the looming grief. So he buries h... More >

More Tales From the Country Matchmaker Founder of the hugely-successful Farmers' and Country Bureau, matchmaker Patricia Warren's story of her life in a stone farmhouse is interwoven with the tales of the ups and downs of her clients. Patricia matched Lucy, looking for love in the remote Falkland Islands, with the man of her dreams. She acted as go-between for the man who was so overcome with shy... More >

Afghanistan. Every year an assignment for thousands of British personnel. TV producer Dan Simmons wants to film it all, so he gets himself imbedded with a regiment. He shoots some film. Then he shoots himself. Military Police captain Stef Maguire is under pressure to file it away, but she has heard Simmons’ dying words and they lead her to ex-cop, ex-PI Tom Fletcher. He doesn’t know why Simmons sh... More >

The colleges of Cambridge shimmer beneath the sun of high summer. Beyond the city, the Fens lie quiet in the heat. In an agricultural equipment showroom, the half-consumed body of a young man sticks out grotesquely from the mouth of a shredding machine. Does this death mark the beginning of an unprecedented crime wave in this well-heeled community? Or is it just the latest in a story of corruption... More >

Tom Fletcher has left the police force, and it’s cold outside. Working as a P.I. in Cambridge, he is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Tom’s inquiries begin to spiral into ever darker conspiracies. How is an American company involved in an officially-suppressed story from World War II? Where is the US Air Force base that seems to be ... More >

1854. War is imminent as the Western powers quarrel with Russia over the crumbling Ottoman empire. Wanting to prove himself to his father, Officer Tony Morgan is keen to set sail. The Morgan’s chambermaid, Mary, whom Tony loves, has wed another officer and will accompany the regiment to the front as a nurse. Eager to prove himself a worthy leader, he finds himself shaken by the brutality of war. W... More >

A s the ship docked in Bombay, the shocking news of the rising by the Indian mutineers and their massacre of women, children and civilians reached Anthony Morgan and his company. Even so, they were hardly prepared for what they now faced. Morgan himself has another quest. On discovering that the son he had fathered, his child’s mother and her husband, Morgan’s old sergeant, are captives up in the... More >

1300 and Adam Blackstock, Master of The Waxman, is bound for Orwell with The Cloister Map, an ancient manuscript charting the whereabouts of legendary treasure. But Hanseatic League ships overrun The Waxman and Blackstock is slaughtered. When Wilhelm Von Paulents arrives in Canterbury with the Map, Sir Hugh Corbett is sent by Edward I to negotiate ownership of the chart. But less than 24 hours aft... More >

For over five decades, Amber Fulshawe has been at the helm of Denham Silk, the Macclesfield mill that she inherited from her Grandmother. With many tumultuous years behind them, Amber and her beloved husband Jay, are looking to the legacy that their own grandchildren will inherit. But long-buried secrets and hidden desires have always lain at the heart of the family as this generation are finding ... More >

Having returned to Lake Tahoe after a stint in California, Nina Reilly is getting back to work, investigating an unsolved murder that happened outside a Tahoe casino two years before. As she tries to unravel the mystery of that violent night, a harrowing journey begins – one that takes her from Tahoe's dark underworld to a prestigious East Coast university and to Europe, where an emotional reunion... More >

1721. George I is on the throne and Britain is emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon – where his uncle is a merchant – hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. His family's welcome is cool, but there are compensations in the shape of the worldly Maria Beatriz, the innocent Gabriella, a... More >

AD 670. Sister Fidelma and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf, have been called to Autun to act as advisors to the Irish delegation of church leaders from Western Europe. But when the body of one of the delegates is found with his skull brutally smashed, they find themselves in the middle of a terrifying murder investigation.... More >

In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to receive a manuscript from one of the Cathedral Canons. Felix Slater wants the compromising memoirs of his late father to be locked away until after his own death. But Slater’s death comes much sooner ... More >

Two months before Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a young woman is found half naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. The only clue to her identity is a handbill advertising a lecture by Albert Einstein. Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little knows this will be his last case. Searching for the truth about his celebrated patient, he finds professional fascination turning to love. His investigati... More >