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Please note this book was previously published as A Wreath for My Sister.A young woman frozen on the moors. A mother who never came home. A third woman in danger.Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and high heels, but as a snowstorm sweeps in she doesn't feel the cold . . .Meanwhile Detective Joanna Piercy is approached by a desperate man at a party. His daughter went missing two years ago. She went to the market one afternoon and never came home. Leaving behind her eight-month-old son. And the police are no longer looking for her.Now, a frozen body is found on the moors. And Detective Joanna might just have a serial killer on her hands . . .

South Wales, 1938.Summer has arrived in the beautiful coastal corner of south Wales where for Cecily and Ada Owen business is booming. Holidaymakers are beginning to arrive and the cafés, tea stalls and shops lining the Pleasure Beach are clamouring to place orders with the Owen sisters' shop.But clouds are gathering on the horizon. War is looming and Ada's husband, Phil, is released from prison. Phil's arrest humiliated Ada and made the ugly sisters the subject of local gossip.Phil is still a dangerous crook and Ada no longer recognizes the man she married. Meanwhile, Myfanwy is harbouring unspoken resentments - towards the mother who so long denied her - and is planning a cruel revenge.Can the Owen sisters survive what's coming their way and celebrate the end of the war with hope in their hearts?

A trove of Chinese treasure throws up a dilemma for Arnold and his team. Should they keep it? Or sell it off to the highest bidder?Enter Steven Sullivan: a suave young magnate with ties to the Far East.His boss has more than a casual interest in the ancient Chinese artifacts. And he's keen to take Arnold and his prickly coworkers out to dinner to seal the deal.But Arnold has barely picked up his chopsticks when . . .A gunshot explodes from the kitchen, killing the only other diner in the near-empty restaurant.Steven leaps up in hot pursuit, to be grazed by a second bullet in a shady alley.The killer escapes into the night, leaving Steven to walk away with his life.A stroke of luck? Or a smokescreen for something more sinister?Arnold won't rest until he uncovers the truth. But what if the next bullet is meant for him?

This ancient grave won't stay empty for long.Arnold Landon heads to Rome, ready to begin retraining for his own job.His first port of call? An ancient tomb out in the sun-scorched Roman hills.Arnold treads the dark and twisty path down to the burial chamber, expecting to find nothing but old bones.Instead, he stumbles on fresh blood and a much more recently dead body.The man's throat's been slit, but Arnold recognizes him immediately. Cosimo. A tour guide who was once part of a gang of Roman grave robbers.Has his murky past finally caught up with him? Arnold's loath to stick around to find out.But when the blood feud follows him back to Northumberland, it seems he may not have a choice.Can Arnold unravel the mystery before the ruthless killer strikes again?

Please note this book was previously published as Catch the Fallen Sparrow.It's a cold, grey morning when soldiers on an exercise drill find a smouldering body up on the moors.The body is scarred by cigarette burns, the hands covered in tattoos and the clothes are scruffy. But the Reebok trainers are brand new.It's just a kid. A ten-year-old boy. Someone killed him, then set him on fire. DI Joanna Piercy is determined to bring whoever did this to justice.But the case is getting more complicated with every new discovery. Why is this clearly neglected child wearing a solid gold ring? A ring that belonged to a local MP - before he died of pneumonia some months ago?Then two more children go missing from a local children's home. The race is on for DI Piercy to find them before any more bodies are burnt on the moors.

Five old school friends reunited for a weekend in Sheffield. A drunken game of truth or dare. One won't survive.The young woman is found murdered in a swanky hotel room. Detective Claudia Nunn gets the text just as she leaves her therapist's office.The victim's friends all say the same thing: she had been distracted and kept disappearing all weekend. And on the Saturday, someone had screamed abuse in her face.Did she know her killer?As Claudia closes in on the murderer, the top-brass start closing down the investigation. And the team become the target of violent attacks.Someone will do anything to stop the truth getting out.

Detective Inspector Andy Horton spots a police car outside Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. He's supposed to be on holiday, but his curiosity gets the better of him and he stops to investigate.Lying face down and sprawled out in Number One Dock is the lifeless body of naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding.Superintendent Uckfield is adamant that Spalding took his own life. But Horton's not so sure. Then another body is found in similar circumstances in the cockpit of a boat moored at Oyster Quays.Angry at his boss's inaction, Horton takes matters into his own hands.

Please note this book was previously published as Winding up the Serpent.It's Detective Joanna Piercy's first day back at work after her promotion. You could cut the tension with a knife. The rest of the team are more than a little bit jealous.But there's a missing persons case to get on with.DI Piercy arrives at the missing nurse's house. But it's too late.Marilyn Smith is dead. Spreadeagled on the bed, all dressed up for a date she didn't keep. DI Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered even though the post-mortem is inconclusive.But if there was foul play involved, how did the killer get past her dog, who was so protective of his mistress? And how come her dog was just about the only creature who liked this nurse?Joanna's boss is breathing down her neck to close the case. She must catch a killer to keep her job.

South Wales, 1929.In a beautiful corner of the south Wales coast, the Owen sisters run their family's grocery shop. The popular seaside resort has always been their haven, even when their mother abandoned them.Now Cecily and Ada live above the shop with their father and Myfanwy, a six-year-old girl they adopted when her parents died. With the assistance of friends and Willie, their hardworking stable boy, the shop becomes a roaring success. Their deliveries extend to the stalls and cafés on the beach, where one stall handler, Peter, becomes a close friend.But their success is overshadowed by heartache.Cecily's wedding is cancelled.Ada's marriage is crumbling.And a life-changing secret is unveiled.Relationships will come and go, secrets will be revealed, but will the sisters' relationship survive it all?

Frank Doy can't even go to the shop without getting ambushed by hitmen.He's followed into the supermarket car park. A sharply dressed man and a young woman corner him. They want to know where Frank's old friend Malky Malkovich is. But Frank has no idea, and they have guns.Before the woman can kneecap him, Frank breaks her arm with a tyre iron.Suddenly the man turns. 'You're no use to me now, babe. You're just gonna be a burden.'He raises his gun. And that's when she shoots him.Now Frank needs answers - and fast. Who put this contract on his head? And who else is coming for him?The only person he can turn to is the woman who just tried to kill him. And she has a broken arm. It looks like they're going to have to trust each other if they want to stay alive.

Charmaine Reece sets off to the Bahamas with one goal in mind. Sun, sea . . . and revenge.Her target: Payne Lacey, the playboy casino owner who broke her sister Lucy's heart.Her plan: make Payne fall in love with her, then break his heart, as he did to her sister.Easy. Right?But Charmaine hasn't wagered on how irresistibly gorgeous and charming Payne really is. Or on Lucy showing up in the Bahamas.Then Payne proposes to Charmaine in front of the whole casino. Red or black on the roulette. If she wins, she takes his casino; if he wins, she becomes his wife.Is it his last gamble . . . or hers?

Please note this book was previously published as Aunt Letitia.London, 1940.Letitia Warner has kept many secrets over the course of her ninety-one years. Now, she must choose what to tell - and what to take to her grave.Letitia wants nothing more than to see her great-nephew Hugh happily settled. Especially after the part she played in separating Hugh from his first love, Megan O'Connor, during World War I. With her unruly red hair, illegitimate origins, and suffragette leanings, she was quite unsuitable.Now the bombs of the Second World War are devastating London . . . and Megan O'Connor is back. She's a qualified doctor who's made something of her life, but at what price? Hugh is overjoyed to have found her again, but he's also keeping a dark secret of his own.Hugh, Megan, and Aunt Letitia must all decide their own fates.Should they tell the truth and risk everything, or live a lie?

When he was seven years old, Detective Inspector Temple found his mother murdered. Since then, he's been a man on a mission to find her killer. It's what drove him to join the police. Now, finally, he has a chance to discover the truth.An elderly man is savagely beaten in his own home. His attackers show no mercy. Left for dead, the World War II veteran crawls to the phone to call for help . . .Eighteen months later, Guy Newland is summoned to a meeting in a hotel in Egypt. He's told his DNA has been found, linking him to a historic crime. Newland knew this day would come. He's been plagued by a woman's face in his nightmares for the past thirty-five years.Four months later, two young men are found in a car in the woods, each with a gunshot wound to the head.DI Temple must pull the threads together and find out what links these shocking crimes. And will he finally find out the truth about his mother?

Nineteen guests with secrets to hide.One exclusive party on a private island.An invitation to die for?Ursula Smart and her mother, Pandora, wangle an invite to crime-fiction powerhouse Anthony Lovell's latest book launch, a weekend-long bash at his private island home.They're ready for an evening of wining, dining and hobnobbing.But trouble always seems to follow the Smart women.Late that night, Ursula is woken up by blood-curdling screams.Anthony is dead. Poisoned by the highlight of the evening feast, the fugu fillet. If prepared incorrectly, this rare Japanese delicacy is deadly.Who killed him?When the accused is put on trial, the Smart women are called as witnesses. But Ursula's not convinced the police have the right person.Is asking questions asking for trouble?

14 April 1912.The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg.At 11.40 p.m. Mair Parsons wakes up, heart thumping. A loud noise vibrates through the ship.The Titanic is sinking.Chaos ensues.The disaster will change her life for ever.Mair awakes in a Manhattan hospital confused and afraid. And ready to face her past. Her fiancé is waiting for her back at home, but before she can return to him, Mair is determined to discover the truth about her absent mother. Even if it means abandoning her life in Wales and the daughter who adores her.Her search takes her to London, where she becomes a Nightingale nurse at St Thomas's hospital and meets the handsome doctor, Andrew Baxter.With new love and a new career, can Mair finally find happiness? Or will her heart be forever bound to those she's left behind?

Please note this was previously published as Death Lies Beneath.Detective Inspector Andy Horton is at the funeral of ex-con Daryl Woodley. He's there to keep an eye on the mourners and watch out for a big-time crook, who they suspect was involved in Woodley's murder.But it's a perplexing case. Prior to his death, Woodley was assaulted and spent three days in hospital before discharging himself. His body is found by a dog walker on Farlington marshes, three miles from the hospital. How did he get there?The funeral surveillance appears to be a bust. But the next morning Horton is called out to another suspicious death.A woman's body is found on a yacht wreck, stabbed in the back. She's wearing a black figure-hugging dress and a wide-brimmed black hat.Horton recognizes the woman instantly. She was at Woodley's funeral.Are the cases linked? Horton is thrown into another complex investigation. As tensions rise, Horton receives a chilling message. It looks like time is running out for our bold detective . . .

Detective Siv Drummond moved back to her hometown in Sussex, hoping for a quiet life by the sea. But trouble soon follows . . .A little girl and her grandfather are murdered, minutes before her fourth birthday party.Detective Siv Drummond arrives at the family's beautiful coastal home to find a horrifying scene.The little girl lies dead at the bottom of the garden. Suffocated in her Wendy house. Her grandfather is in the kitchen, his head caved in.As long-kept secrets begin to surface, the killer is preparing to strike again.The clock is ticking for Siv to uncover the family's dark history and solve the case . . .

Someone betrayed him.They wiped out his entire unit.And now they're coming for him too.British secret service agent Harry Gibson arrives late at the designated safe-house in Prague to find his three colleagues murdered.Shot dead, execution-style. He recognizes the handiwork of two counter-intelligence 'cleaners'. But why would they betray him?Harry can't hang around to find out - not unless he wants to become the fourth corpse.He heads for safety in the Orkney Islands, to lay low until he can find out who ordered the kills. But every bolthole he reaches is shut down. From inside the secret service.Harry Gibson must RUN FOR HOME.

Nick Shannon is a convicted killer. But don't let that put you off. He had his reasons.After serving time in prison for the mercy killing of his quadriplegic sister, Nick Shannon is finally getting his life back on track working as a fraud detective.Business for Shannon Investigations is booming. They don't take any prisoners: no one is too big to escape justice, and they never give up.But when their new client, Roger Ackroyd, dies only two days into the contract, it puts a bit of a dampener on things.Nick finds Ackroyd slumped forward over his partners' desk, face down on the dark green leather top. The police think it was a stroke or a heart attack. But Nick isn't convinced.The next day, the autopsy reveals poison in Ackroyd's system.Nick was right. But now he's the prime suspect.Nick won't go down without a fight, and that's exactly what the real killer has in mind.

Evil lurks beneath the surface of the beautiful Welsh village of Leighton Meadow.A young woman is found dead in the village church. Shot through the heart with a crossbow.She thought she was safe there, but they found her in the end.DI Jemima Huxley thought Leighton Meadow was a safe place to raise her adopted ten-year-old son. But this is a village with many hidden secrets. And this case is hitting really close to home.The victim turns out to be a Czech student who went missing on a night out in Prague.How did she end up dead in a Welsh church?Detective Huxley must find out before more women pay the ultimate price.

Originally published as The Ways of Death.Out on the jagged Northumbrian coast, violent storms uncover an ancient sea cave.The place has been sealed up for millennia. No way in or out. Now Arnold must explore its murky depths. When he does, he stumbles on something impossible.A heap of human remains and rotten clothing. Along with one tiny silver ID badge.Whoever killed the owner - twenty years ago - found the ultimate place to hide their crime. But how did they do it?The man's death is a fiendish puzzle that Arnold can't fathom. Especially when a second body turns up in the very same location.A case of history repeating itself? An uncanny coincidence? Or what?The deeper Arnold gets, the more he fears the past and the present are horrifyingly intertwined.And someone out there will stop at nothing to keep their secret.

Please note this was previously published as A Killing Coast.Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send DI Andy Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller.An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor. When he observes mysterious lights out at sea, he reports them to the police.The local police think he's a bit of a nuisance. And when Horton interviews him he's inclined to agree. A judgement he may bitterly regret.Meanwhile a call comes through from Horton's partner, DS Cantelli. A woman's decomposing body is pulled out of the sea, wearing a Victorian-style dress. The post-mortem gives them a massive shock.And when another body is found, Horton thinks he's got a serial killer on his hands. At this point the last thing he needs is his old girlfriend showing up.

Wales, 1908.Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by Nellie, her step-mother, Rhiannon Hughes finds herself abandoned and alone.Unable to trust flighty Nellie, Rhiannon and her younger stepsister, Mair, have always relied on each other. But with no money and no one to turn to, Rhiannon must take Mair from the only home they have ever known in the Welsh valleys and head for Cardiff.Their one spark of hope is her aunt, a popular music hall star. Rhiannon is dazzled by this glamourous and exciting new world - and by the handsome young master of ceremonies, Gus Davenport.Then Nellie unexpectedly returns and it all comes crashing down. Mair is lured into Cardiff's sleazy underworld.How will Rhiannon choose between following her dreams and keeping her promise to Mair, who needs her now more than ever?

There's something deadly in the air at grand old Carton Hall. The sweet scent of revenge?Early one morning, the cleaner makes a shocking find in the tapestry room.A dead body lying among the priceless artworks.His handsome features are a mask of agony, but the cleaner would recognize him anywhere. Dashing perfumier Charles Larrain.His tangled love life is the talk of Old Carton village, but now his luck's run out.Someone has loaded his e-cigarette with poison.The handiwork of a jilted ex? A jealous lover? Or someone else connected with the hall?It's up to Detectives Markham and Noakes to sniff out the ruthless killer - before anyone else pays the ultimate price.

The world's deadliest spider. A detective terrified of the creatures. A ruthless psychopath who will use her fears against her.Detective Kate Hamblin is called out to a reported theft at Moat House in the marshy wilds of the Somerset Levels. The evidence points to a random break-in by a passing vagrant - but when she questions the wealthy homeowner, Professor Dunbar, and his warring family, Kate realizes there's more to this burglary than meets the eye.Professor Dunbar is a world-famous arachnologist. His extensive collection of live tropical spiders includes the world's deadliest specimen, a Brazilian wandering spider, whose bite is instantly fatal. He's named her Martha.Then a family member is found dying in agony in the professor's laboratory. It appears to be a tragic accident when it's discovered Martha has escaped from her supposedly secure tank. But Kate is not so sure.Could there be a killer on the loose?Kate is terrified of spiders because of a traumatic childhood experience. But she's hunting a killer who uses the creatures to pursue a deadly agenda. Can she survive long enough to unmask a murderer . . . and avoid the spider's lethal bite?