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During the hazardous years of the Depression, Christine Winter, with the indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession, meets a stranger and finds her life changed beyond recall.

Hannah Massey is the matriarch of her family but her daughter, the apple of her eye, creates an explosive situation.

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes her boss, but when a number of visiting businessmen are murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she objects to his

Matthew lies in a hospital bed, wondering what place there is for a blind man in the new social order of a Britain adjusting to post-war austerity.

Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household.

The eleventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series involves the pathologist and Detective Pete Marino in a new case and a threat that could radically change the course of Scarpetta's career.

This powerful and enthralling novel spans more than three decades, from the 1880's to the First World War, and tells the story of Ward Gibson, his family, and those whose destiny is influenced

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.

Catherine Cookson's own story; of her mother and her harsh childhood growing up in a poor English family.

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms.

Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops.

Joseph Rooney, dustman, is looking for lodgings. Ma Howlett welcomes him but he feels strange and shy. Then he meets Nellie and suddenly things are not so bad.

When Fred suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. A series of disasters threaten to ruin their holiday.

Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence at a respectable firm of London solicitors was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years.

Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond, Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city.