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Meet the actress turned spy. From a musty church hall in Cambridge to glitzy nightclubs in Nazi-occupied Paris, Louise Wellesley stars on stage. Even cows are impressed when she parachutes into a French field at midnight dressed as a nun. Men bombard her with proposals; most indecent. As WW2 drags on, Louise, nicknamed Plum, joins ENSA - Every Night Something Awful - to entertain troops. She's bored and an offer from a handsome young Belgian sees Plum do the unthinkable. She survives death beneath the Eiffel Tower, and by hitching aride with the French Navy, stumbles upon her true love. D-Day looms with the promise of slaughter on the beaches of Normandy. Will her heart be shattered? People and pets perish. New challenges appear. New life is created and when one war ends, another begins. Can Plum survive and find happiness?

You live next door to the Royal Family. Really? Well not quite, the Windsors are a couple of miles away on the Sandringham Estate, 20,000 Norfolk acres bought by Queen Victoria for her son, Edward in 1862. The Royals reach Sandringham by car (coach and horses in the early days) having alighted at the nearest station, Wolferton with its magnificent station master's house. That's it on the cover. In 1924, from 100+ applicants, the youngest station master in England won this plum post. How on Earth did George Miracle get the nod? About to start work, he marries Louisa where the one-legged best man gives away the bride in St Peter's Wolferton just up the road from the SM's fabulous abode. The Rector has lost his faith and the bride's stunning in the wedding breakfast venue, the Royal waiting-room in the Royal Station. As the Loyal Toast ends, in walks a VIP who proposes a toast to the bride and groom. What a day! Married life begins and a baby Miracle arrives but it's heart breaking and the Miracles need a miracle. Louisa was told her father died when she was a baby. Not so and her Belgravia-based half-siblings want her dead. Murder is the solution. Louisa's father dies and life is never the same as chats with the Royal Family happen regularly on both platforms. 'Good morning, Your Majesty.' It's a right royal miracle.

She’s the youngest and smartest Homicide detective in town. So when a crooked builder is found with a chisel in his chest, and a 22 year-old cold-case cries out to be solved, Jo Best is keen—until she gets a phone call from France. Why would Jo and her crime-busting buddy, computer-whiz Michael, take off for Paris? Dealing with a French drug baron, corrupt cops, human trafficking, the English aristocracy, narrowboats and a priest hole is just for starters. There’s a lunatic suicide bomber on the loose, and back home, Dad’s Army has pitched camp at Victoria Police. And what the heck is happening with Jo’s romantic entanglements? Has Charlotte Bronte got there first? All this and more in the biggest Joanna Best mystery ever—Book 5 in the series.

Serial killers only stop when they’re stopped. Homicide can’t catch the killer because they don’t know who he, she or they are. The deaths seem unrelated—a woman drowned, a judge crushed, a teacher bashed and an equestrian strangled. Why these victims? They’re normal like you and me. Why murder the good guys? A radio shock-jock with verbal diarrhea is struck dumb. A murderer confesses to the broadcaster and the cases are all over the media. Jo Best is back in Homicide with more boyfriends than stiffs. One lover turns nasty and Jo is shafted. A car crash and missing pet bring heartache. Enter IT whiz, Michael Chan. Jo and Michael head to church for a baptism of fire. Can you spot the killers before Jo? And will she accept that Parisian invitation? 

World War 2 thriller where brilliant young English actress is a sleeper for the Secret Intelligence Service in Paris in 1940. She dances at the Folies Bergere, is framed for murder and works on the same bill as Edith Piaf. Two German cousins, a Panzer commander and a Gestapo agent are in Paris. One falls in love with the actress and the other wants her dead. The French police, Resistance and Gestapo all want to capture her. When she uncovers a double-agent her only friend is Edith Piaf.

A crowded playground is bursting with excited toddlers, their parents and grandparents. Four-year-old Candice disappears. How? Was she abducted? Did she wander off? Where is she? Joanna Best moves from Homicide to Serious Crime and finding little Candy consumes the city.Jo's secretive criminal life involves helping a young woman, the victim of revenge porn. A brute is on the warpath looking for Joe Best. Who? Candy's parents are at breaking point. They must be handled with sensitivity. At their home, Jo starts a brawl and is arrested. Can she ever stay out of trouble? And can she handle not one but three suitors? Candy isn't found and Homicide take over the case until Best saves her best for last.

Some people ask to be murdered, like the journalist who researched a VIP paedophile ring. To kill the story you kill the writer. Someone did. Homicide detective Joanna Best has suspects galore but her favourite gets murdered. Now Jo Best is both a brilliant cop and a bloody good crim. She and a friend set up a scam to retrieve a small fortune pinched by two gangsters - the Brothers Crimm. Life gets interesting. The crims kidnap and torture, the top cop sets up a sting, and Jo's father gets arrested. Life wasn't meant to be easy. Whodunit with the two murders and what will Jo lose first-her career, a limb or her life?

The Code of Monte ChristoJoanna Best is a brilliant homicide cop and a damn good criminal. She clashes with senior police and dangerous villains. But Jo isn't a criminal by choice. The only way to fix a family crisis is to break the law, and as she consorts with crims, she tries to solve a double homicide where her colleagues may have arrested the wrong guy. Juggling two jobs is deadly as her partner in crime and her Homicide boss both plan to knife her. So when a maniac tortures her family, Jo panics. Can she find a double homicide murderer? Is her career over? Will a loved family member be killed? And what on Earth is the Code of Monte Christo?

Patrick Brontë, father of the famous sisters, was of lowly Irish birth. His father was kidnapped and became a slave. Pat’s dad survived, married and Patrick was born. He had 9 younger siblings. He lived in a two-roomed cottage and from these humble origins became an amazing teacher then won a scholarship to Cambridge graduating with honours.A priest in the Church of England, Brontë fathered six children, three of whom—Charlotte, Emily and Anne—became famous novelists. Their novels remain hugely popular today.But Patrick copped a bad press. He asked the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell to write a biography about his daughter Charlotte. In her book, Mrs Gaskell gave Patrick a hard time. So hard that critics inferred he was ‘a cassocked savage’ and ‘a mad dog who should be shot’. Really?Biographers and publishers pushed the Gaskell line. Patrick’s evil reputation was set in cemetery stone. But not any more.Now his life-story can be revealed. And what a story. The redhead from County Down led an amazing life. He was a poet, novelist, hero and way ahead of his time. He gave his children a fabulous education with giant dollops of love. He inspired them to write. He was a fierce advocate for health, education and social reform. And he loved dogs! Meet the unsung champion from the wild Yorkshire moors.Cassocked Savage is based on the play Saucy Pat by Cenarth Fox