Fleeing the terrors of her former life, Isabel has left England, and at last is beginning to feel safe.Then a letter shatters her world, and she returns home determined not to let fear rule her life any more.But she’s unable to shake off the feeling that someone who knows her better than she knows herself… Read More »
Anna was a good wife, mostly . . .Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far from home; but, despite its tranquility and order, inside she is falling apart.Feeling adrift and unable to… Read More »
I’m absolutely delighted today to be hosting the blog tour for Jane Cable’s second book The Faerie Tree, published on 21 March 2015 by Troubador Publishing/Matador. When you sign up some way ahead for a blog tour without having read the book, you are sometimes taking a bit of a chance. Wouldn’t it be dreadful if… Read More »
Two women, centuries apart, bound together by the secrets of one of the most iconic buildings ever created. Pisa, 1999 Sam Campbell sits by her husband’s hospital bed. Far from home and her children, she must care for Michael who is recovering from a stroke. A man she loves deeply. A man who has been unfaithful… Read More »
I know your name’s not really Jane Hughes…Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She’s happier than she’s ever been but her life is a lie. Jane Hughes does not really exist.Five years earlier Jane and her then best friends went on holiday… Read More »
She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost.Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children’s festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now.… Read More »
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother’s grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a… Read More »
Some dreams shouldn’t come true … Maddie Browne thought she’d grown out of the recurring nightmare that plagued her as a child, but after a shocking family secret is revealed, it comes back to haunt her – the same swing in the same garden, the kind red-haired giant and the swarthy arms which grab her from… Read More »
Welcome to London – but not as you know it.Oxford Street burned for three weeks. The British Museum is occupied by ragtag survivors. The Regent’s Park camps have been bombed. The Nazareth Act has come into force. If you can’t produce your identity card, you don’t exist.Lalla, sixteen, has grown up sheltered from the new… Read More »
Unfortunately, my reviewing time is a little curtailed at the moment, while I look after my parents as they recover from pneumonia – I’m delighted to report that they’re improving daily. So I’m thrilled to welcome Sally Malcolm to the blog today. Her new book, The Legend of the Gypsy Hawk, the first in the… Read More »
A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she got there or who her kidnapper is. So begins her terrible nightmare.Nearby, the body of another young woman is discovered buried on a remote beach. But the dead girl was never reported missing – her estranged family having received regular… Read More »
Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl. A rambling pink cottage on the edge of the Suffolk village of Melbury Green, its enchanting garden provided a fairy-tale playground of seclusion, a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood.Now an adult, Saskia is still living… Read More »
Julia’s life is comfortable, if unremarkable, until her sister’s brutal murder opens old wounds. She finds solace in her sister’s best friend, Sophie, but when Sophie reveals the extent of her sister’s online life, Julia becomes convinced that the truth about her death lies deep in the dark, sordid world of online chatrooms and internet… Read More »
His name is Michael Carmody. He is a writer and a father. His son is lying in a coma, fighting for his life. Her name is Lorraine Cheevers. She is an artist and mother. An illicit affair has destroyed her marriage. Michael is desperate to find the couple who left his son for dead, a victim of a hit… Read More »
In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings.So they set up in business, organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings.Soon they are busy arranging other people’s Big Days.What none of them know is that their own romances lie waiting, just around the corner …Every so often, there’s something… Read More »