Collection: Short term loan

Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn't come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow's resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an e...

When Lena overhears a conversation between her next-door neighbours, she thinks she must have misheard. After all, the Morgans are a kind, retired couple who have moved to a suburban street in Bristol where nothing ever happens. But it sounded like they were planning a crime. Her family and frien...

Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend, Anna. Dead. He begins to scream - and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce is now a private investigator and a...

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with friends. It sounded like hea...

After nearly eighteen months at Basgaith War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun and, with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust. N...

The Hill is the kind of place everyone wants to live: luxurious, exclusive and safe. But now someone is breaking and entering these Cheshire homes one by one, and DS Leo Brady suspects the burglar is looking for something, or someone, in particular. Over the border in Wales, DC Ffion Morgan recov...

Hull, 1904. As the much doted-on daughter of the local doctor Violet Stroud had a comfortable, happy childhood - despite a distinct lack of love from her cold-hearted mother. But when her father unexpectedly dies, Violet's life is turned upside down. As secrets about the family come to light, Vio...

Can she forgive when she can't forget? After the death of her best and childhood friend, Sara is in pieces. Then she receives a 'grateful jar' in the post - from Lottie - filled with messages and happy memories. With each memory, there is an instruction to go to the named place and 'be grateful' ...

Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face...

Inspector Tony McLean is called to a routine break-in at Drake BioTech, a trendsetting Edinburgh start-up at the cutting edge of DNA re-engineering. It's well below McLean's pay-grade, but given the extensive political connections of its eccentric owner Nathaniel Drake, he doesn't have a choice. ...