Collection: Adult fiction

DS Cassie Fitzgerald has a secret - but it's one she's deleted from her memory. In the 1990s when she was at school, she and her friends killed a fellow pupil. 30 years later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer. One day her husband persuades her to go to a school reun...

Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but the murder of their wartime commander, Colonel Cartwright, spoils the happy mood for DI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto. A playbill featuring another deceased comrade is found in Colonel Cartwright's possession, and a playing card, the ace of hea...

In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun lies dead. She has been suffocated. It looks like a mercy-killing - until another sister from the same convent is found viciously murdered, floating in the Glashaboy River. The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would anyone want...

Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, recent mother of twins, resumes her journalistic career by writing a piece about the Tower of London. Having gathered the material she needs, she stumbles upon the dead body of one of the Yeoman warders. With her husband assigned to solve the case, Daisy becomes ever mor...

DCI Lesley Clarke is a busy woman. She's dealing with the reopened investigation into DCI Mackie's death, supporting DS Dennis Frampton through recurring mental health problems, and making plans for her own future. And then prominent crime boss Arthur Kelvin is found dead at a local beauty spot. ...

Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty much seen it all. But this is the first time she's come face to face with someone she knows on the slab. Someone she cared about. Her friend and mentor, Mrs E. Deeply intuitive and convinced that she can pick up the last thoughts of the dead, Cass...

In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright is at a loose end: his parents are dead, his older brother has disowned him and he's been fired from his job. Looking for a sense of direction, he returns to his family's summer cabin in Oregon. The cabin should be empty - but it's not. Inside is a man na...

Grace Porter has the perfect job, great pay, a beautiful office, everything she ever dreamed of, if not for one small detail. She's utterly and hopelessly in love with her boss. Gabriel Ferrara is tall and handsome, and most days she wants to stab her eyes out with a pencil, anything to stop her ...

The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over 300 years. In Massachusetts, beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle, a signal she has only seven days to live. She has finally discovered the secret to breaking the curse, but is out of time to help. And she is not the only ...

When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such a violent end in this quiet, peaceful place. DS Cross is adept at dismissing red-herrings but...