Collection: Adult fiction

May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding h...

'Clean' begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparent...

DCI Lesley Clarke is settling into her new job in Dorset's Major Crimes Unit, and becoming accustomed to a slower pace of life. But then she's called in to solve the murder of a woman with links to Lesley's new girlfriend. Has Lesley made a grave error of judgement? Can she track down the killer ...

Retired teachers Pat, Liz and Thelma are happiest whiling away their hours over coffee, cake and chat at the Thirsk Garden Centre café. But when their good friend Marguerite claims to have uncovered a mysterious charity shop that has since vanished, they simply can't resist investigating. Before...

Three women working in the fast and furious world of magazines meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets off a train of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship.

Daisy Wickens has returned to Ottercombe Bay, the picturesque Devon town where her mother died when she was a girl. She plans to leave as soon as her great uncle's funeral is over, but Great Uncle Reg had other ideas. He's left Daisy a significant inheritance - an old building in a state of disre...

In the Lake District, someone's laying on a deadly welcome. The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District - but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director's reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl. M...

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours one of them will become the most powerful sp...

Meet DCI Lesley Clarke. She's a straight-talking city copper who doesn't suffer fools gladly - and she's been transferred to rural Dorset. After being injured in a bomb attack, Lesley is presented with a choice - early retirement, or a period of respite in a calmer location. But things don't stay...

From her window in a little bungalow on the Cornish coast, local reporter Georgie Monroe has watched as one of the most beautiful houses in Cornwall has been transformed into a high-tech glass palace. Once home to a celebrated romance writer, it's now been sold to a mystery buyer, and Georgie is ...