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Elainne Merrill returns home to Hannah's Gate when her mother dies, leaving her in charge of the family fortune.

Robert Vane, great English actor, and Felicia Lisle, equally famous actress, are partners on stage and in real life, apparently the perfect theatre couple.

Kathleen Mangan is the youngest daughter of the artist Frederick McCubbin and here she recounts her growing up in the early years of this century.

A patrolling police car finds a man slumped over the wheel of a BMW, just another drunk it appears, but the driver is a diplomat whose story has serious consequences for international relationships

Alyna, unwillingly betrothed to Prince Ahmadi, comes under the protection of the `dangerous dandy'. His unusual devotion to her problem brings fear, danger and finally great happiness.

When Germany surrenders in 1945, Erich Keller becomes a prisoner of war. He is recruited by British Intelligence for a line-crossing operation into the Soviet-occupied zone.

Wealthy novelist, Annabel Kerr, lies dead from a stroke, a gun near her hand. In another room her sister has been fatally shot - but there are no fingerprints on the gun!

When Tag Enderby broke with Dan Malley's outlaw gang, Malley swore to kill him.

When Nell Channing arrives on Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband, and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago

Searching the airfields of Kent for the mother of a young evacuee Sheila Calvert meets USAAF Lieutenant Todd Albany.

Elena Estes needs escape. All her life, she's made choices with a wilfulness she took pride in.

Assistant Country Prosecutor Stella Marz has escaped her alcoholic father and working class background to become head of the Prosecutor's Homicide Unit.

Brings together Terry McCaleb, hero of Bloodwork, and Harry Bosch, with a part for Jack McEvoy from The poet. McCaleb is asked to profile the killer of an unsolved murder.

An action story of a group of mercenaries who set out to relieve a mining town in the heart of the African jungle.

First book of a trilogy set in San Francisco which centres on the lives of three best friends. Laura, Margo and Kate decide to set up a second-hand shop.