A dark Southern tale of desperate souls who’ve wound up on the road of poor choices, a messianic child with untold powers, and those out hunting her for their own reward, all drawn together by Michael Farris Smith’s trademark mournful, spirit-gnawing prose.
A guilt-riddled goldsmith works by the shore. A splintering writer returns to capture the fairy tales of the town where she spent her childhood summers. A body floats on the tide. The second novel by critically-acclaimed Bonnie Burke-Patel.
Felicity Jardine, a retired secret agent, is on the point of drowning herself in the river when a baby floats by in a car seat. Rescuing the baby, Felicity finds herself drawn into a web of conspiracy and murder which forces her out of retirement. With the help of two old colleagues she must put herself and those she loves at risk in order to confront the demons of her past.
A dazzling thriller about a young woman whose fabulously wealthy mother might be the victim of an elaborate con or might be losing her mind – and the daughter can’t tell where the truth lies.
You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the police on the doorstep. First they check you’re who they expected to find at the address. What they say next traps you in a nightmare, and there seems to be no way out. It starts with the words, ‘I’m afraid…’
The stakes have never been higher for Geraldine Steel.When Alice Lewis is found murdered, the case becomes personal for DI Steel, as Alice was the …
An incredible anthology of truly fascinating Victorian tales of the supernatural.
There will be scores to settle when Hattie is caught up in a murder related to the production of a musical in a grand Tudor house — in the new Theatreland mystery.
The new Old Forge Café mystery sees Charlie heading to Edinburgh’s New Town to provide cover in a restaurant that is soon struck by death…
In 1986 Gravesend, Brooklyn, Risa Franzone’s life unravels when an abusive husband is killed in a sudden, violent accident. With her sister Giulia and loyal friend Christopher ‘Chooch’ Gardini, Risa faces a terrifying choice: confess or conceal. Over the next eighteen years, the sisters navigate love, loyalty, and the consequences of that fateful night, as long-buried secrets begin to surface in this gripping, atmospheric tale of family, crime, and survival.
Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his sheriff’s department over his unwillingness to look the other way when an innocent man is arrested for murder.
This delicously funny first in a new series of country house murder mysteries is full of period Twenties flavour and introduces feisty dressmaker Jemima Flowerday.