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Please note this book was previously published as A Wreath for My Sister.A young woman frozen on the moors. A mother who never came home. A third woman in danger.Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and high heels, but as a snowstorm sweeps in she doesn't feel the cold . . .Meanwhile Detective Joanna Piercy is approached by a desperate man at a party. His daughter went missing two years ago. She went to the market one afternoon and never came home. Leaving behind her eight-month-old son. And the police are no longer looking for her.Now, a frozen body is found on the moors. And Detective Joanna might just have a serial killer on her hands . . .

South Wales, 1938.Summer has arrived in the beautiful coastal corner of south Wales where for Cecily and Ada Owen business is booming. Holidaymakers are beginning to arrive and the cafés, tea stalls and shops lining the Pleasure Beach are clamouring to place orders with the Owen sisters' shop.But clouds are gathering on the horizon. War is looming and Ada's husband, Phil, is released from prison. Phil's arrest humiliated Ada and made the ugly sisters the subject of local gossip.Phil is still a dangerous crook and Ada no longer recognizes the man she married. Meanwhile, Myfanwy is harbouring unspoken resentments - towards the mother who so long denied her - and is planning a cruel revenge.Can the Owen sisters survive what's coming their way and celebrate the end of the war with hope in their hearts?

A trove of Chinese treasure throws up a dilemma for Arnold and his team. Should they keep it? Or sell it off to the highest bidder?Enter Steven Sullivan: a suave young magnate with ties to the Far East.His boss has more than a casual interest in the ancient Chinese artifacts. And he's keen to take Arnold and his prickly coworkers out to dinner to seal the deal.But Arnold has barely picked up his chopsticks when . . .A gunshot explodes from the kitchen, killing the only other diner in the near-empty restaurant.Steven leaps up in hot pursuit, to be grazed by a second bullet in a shady alley.The killer escapes into the night, leaving Steven to walk away with his life.A stroke of luck? Or a smokescreen for something more sinister?Arnold won't rest until he uncovers the truth. But what if the next bullet is meant for him?

This ancient grave won't stay empty for long.Arnold Landon heads to Rome, ready to begin retraining for his own job.His first port of call? An ancient tomb out in the sun-scorched Roman hills.Arnold treads the dark and twisty path down to the burial chamber, expecting to find nothing but old bones.Instead, he stumbles on fresh blood and a much more recently dead body.The man's throat's been slit, but Arnold recognizes him immediately. Cosimo. A tour guide who was once part of a gang of Roman grave robbers.Has his murky past finally caught up with him? Arnold's loath to stick around to find out.But when the blood feud follows him back to Northumberland, it seems he may not have a choice.Can Arnold unravel the mystery before the ruthless killer strikes again?

Please note this book was previously published as Catch the Fallen Sparrow.It's a cold, grey morning when soldiers on an exercise drill find a smouldering body up on the moors.The body is scarred by cigarette burns, the hands covered in tattoos and the clothes are scruffy. But the Reebok trainers are brand new.It's just a kid. A ten-year-old boy. Someone killed him, then set him on fire. DI Joanna Piercy is determined to bring whoever did this to justice.But the case is getting more complicated with every new discovery. Why is this clearly neglected child wearing a solid gold ring? A ring that belonged to a local MP - before he died of pneumonia some months ago?Then two more children go missing from a local children's home. The race is on for DI Piercy to find them before any more bodies are burnt on the moors.

Five old school friends reunited for a weekend in Sheffield. A drunken game of truth or dare. One won't survive.The young woman is found murdered in a swanky hotel room. Detective Claudia Nunn gets the text just as she leaves her therapist's office.The victim's friends all say the same thing: she had been distracted and kept disappearing all weekend. And on the Saturday, someone had screamed abuse in her face.Did she know her killer?As Claudia closes in on the murderer, the top-brass start closing down the investigation. And the team become the target of violent attacks.Someone will do anything to stop the truth getting out.

Detective Inspector Andy Horton spots a police car outside Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. He's supposed to be on holiday, but his curiosity gets the better of him and he stops to investigate.Lying face down and sprawled out in Number One Dock is the lifeless body of naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding.Superintendent Uckfield is adamant that Spalding took his own life. But Horton's not so sure. Then another body is found in similar circumstances in the cockpit of a boat moored at Oyster Quays.Angry at his boss's inaction, Horton takes matters into his own hands.

Please note this book was previously published as Winding up the Serpent.It's Detective Joanna Piercy's first day back at work after her promotion. You could cut the tension with a knife. The rest of the team are more than a little bit jealous.But there's a missing persons case to get on with.DI Piercy arrives at the missing nurse's house. But it's too late.Marilyn Smith is dead. Spreadeagled on the bed, all dressed up for a date she didn't keep. DI Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered even though the post-mortem is inconclusive.But if there was foul play involved, how did the killer get past her dog, who was so protective of his mistress? And how come her dog was just about the only creature who liked this nurse?Joanna's boss is breathing down her neck to close the case. She must catch a killer to keep her job.

South Wales, 1929.In a beautiful corner of the south Wales coast, the Owen sisters run their family's grocery shop. The popular seaside resort has always been their haven, even when their mother abandoned them.Now Cecily and Ada live above the shop with their father and Myfanwy, a six-year-old girl they adopted when her parents died. With the assistance of friends and Willie, their hardworking stable boy, the shop becomes a roaring success. Their deliveries extend to the stalls and cafés on the beach, where one stall handler, Peter, becomes a close friend.But their success is overshadowed by heartache.Cecily's wedding is cancelled.Ada's marriage is crumbling.And a life-changing secret is unveiled.Relationships will come and go, secrets will be revealed, but will the sisters' relationship survive it all?

Frank Doy can't even go to the shop without getting ambushed by hitmen.He's followed into the supermarket car park. A sharply dressed man and a young woman corner him. They want to know where Frank's old friend Malky Malkovich is. But Frank has no idea, and they have guns.Before the woman can kneecap him, Frank breaks her arm with a tyre iron.Suddenly the man turns. 'You're no use to me now, babe. You're just gonna be a burden.'He raises his gun. And that's when she shoots him.Now Frank needs answers - and fast. Who put this contract on his head? And who else is coming for him?The only person he can turn to is the woman who just tried to kill him. And she has a broken arm. It looks like they're going to have to trust each other if they want to stay alive.

Charmaine Reece sets off to the Bahamas with one goal in mind. Sun, sea . . . and revenge.Her target: Payne Lacey, the playboy casino owner who broke her sister Lucy's heart.Her plan: make Payne fall in love with her, then break his heart, as he did to her sister.Easy. Right?But Charmaine hasn't wagered on how irresistibly gorgeous and charming Payne really is. Or on Lucy showing up in the Bahamas.Then Payne proposes to Charmaine in front of the whole casino. Red or black on the roulette. If she wins, she takes his casino; if he wins, she becomes his wife.Is it his last gamble . . . or hers?

Please note this book was previously published as Aunt Letitia.London, 1940.Letitia Warner has kept many secrets over the course of her ninety-one years. Now, she must choose what to tell - and what to take to her grave.Letitia wants nothing more than to see her great-nephew Hugh happily settled. Especially after the part she played in separating Hugh from his first love, Megan O'Connor, during World War I. With her unruly red hair, illegitimate origins, and suffragette leanings, she was quite unsuitable.Now the bombs of the Second World War are devastating London . . . and Megan O'Connor is back. She's a qualified doctor who's made something of her life, but at what price? Hugh is overjoyed to have found her again, but he's also keeping a dark secret of his own.Hugh, Megan, and Aunt Letitia must all decide their own fates.Should they tell the truth and risk everything, or live a lie?

When he was seven years old, Detective Inspector Temple found his mother murdered. Since then, he's been a man on a mission to find her killer. It's what drove him to join the police. Now, finally, he has a chance to discover the truth.An elderly man is savagely beaten in his own home. His attackers show no mercy. Left for dead, the World War II veteran crawls to the phone to call for help . . .Eighteen months later, Guy Newland is summoned to a meeting in a hotel in Egypt. He's told his DNA has been found, linking him to a historic crime. Newland knew this day would come. He's been plagued by a woman's face in his nightmares for the past thirty-five years.Four months later, two young men are found in a car in the woods, each with a gunshot wound to the head.DI Temple must pull the threads together and find out what links these shocking crimes. And will he finally find out the truth about his mother?