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Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth-century garden design. As she meets new people, and life in France becomes more significant in every respect, London recedes into the background. A horrifying episode puts an end to this fascination, and Emma reconciles herself to her duller but safer life at home and to the compromises that she comes to accept.

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead.

A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.

As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home.

An aeroplane crashes on the cliffs of Dulworth Bay, and two boys disappear from a public school in the same village. Are the two events connected?

And, who is the mysterious Curzon? His name first appears etched on a cricket bat owned by one of the missing Baxter boys, but nobody at the school, in the village or the boys' father has heard of him.

Clara Casey, separated mother of two, had been hoping for a more glamorous post than the shabby, run-down inner-city cardiac clinic. Ania had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life abandons her, life seems bleak and empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart.

In a London neighbourhood known for its artists and bohemian style, six year-old Tracey Rudd is abducted from home without any warning, or sign of intrusion. Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla hunt for the kidnapper.

Tobias Campion is happily settled as vicar at Moreton Priory. He finds the new lady living of Moreton Hall a charming and generous spirited member of his parish who is only too willing to help Tobias and his friend Dr. Hansard look after the less fortunate in the community. Lady Chase's nephew, Marcus Bramhall, however is another kettle of fish. No sooner has he moved his entire family into the Hall, under the pretence of concern for his aunt's recent widow status, than things start going awry.

Professor Amelia Harsh searches for the legendary city of Camlantis on her quest for the perfect society--a quest that has a good chance of bringing her own world to the brink of destruction as she faces off against convicts, female mercenaries, and a lunatic steamman acting as their guide.