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My (Not So) Perfect Summer, by Phoebe MacLeod

Autumn has defied the odds. A teen mum, she stayed with her boyfriend and they have a stable happy home life. Now she has successfully applied to be a deputy head teacher. Things couldn’t be better, but then she wakes to find her partner Marc has vanished taking half their savings with him. She can’t […]

Death in Bacton Wood, by Ross Greenwood

A young man wakes in a shallow grave in a wood. He manages to escape being buried alive but disappears from hospital before he can be interviewed properly by police. His friend Max is still missing and the police call the cadaver dogs in to search the woods… Death in Bacton Wood is the third […]

Murder on the Italian Riviera, by T.A. Williams

Years ago, Dan Armstrong was involved in a case that saw Bianca Moretti jailed. Now she turns to him when a murder takes place on her father’s retreat. Dan is surprised but accepts the case. Will he agree with local police that the death was an accident or with Bianca who is convinced it was […]

Mystery on Meadowsweet Grove, by Clare Chase

A competition for the village’s best garden is interrupted by the discovery of a dead body. Does Cleo’s death have a connection to another death 25 years ago? Mystery on Meadowsweet Grove is the 12th book to feature obituary writer and amateur sleuth Eve Mallow. Secrets, lies, hidden tunnels, affairs, personal and professional animosity, a […]

The Berlin Wife’s Vow, by Marion Kummerow

TRIGGER WARNING: Nazi antisemitic ideology and violence 1943, Germany. Jews in hiding. Nazi officers working against their leadership. Friends and family in danger of being denounced and arrested at every turn… The Berlin Wife’s Vow is an historical book set during the second half of WW2. It is the fourth book in a series and […]