Collection: Fiction

Years ago, fourteen-year-old Scarlett Rainsford vanished without a trace. Not finding her was one of the biggest regrets of DCI Louisa Smith's career. When Scarlett is discovered back in her home town, Lou is determined to find out what happened to her.

Jackie loves her family. Sure, her teenagers can be stroppy. Her husband a little lazy. And providing round-the-clock care for her Alzheimers-ridden mother is exhausting. All Jackie wants is for her children to have a brighter future than she did...

Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy runs, as he has been told to do. With shoes of sack cloth, still bloodstained with another's blood, a stone clutched in one hand, a small wooden box in the other. He runs blindly, full of fear, empty of hope.

Kinsey Millhone is poking her nose into everyone's dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance.

A man makes a grisly discovery by the River Lea in London and soon DCI Jack Hawksworth and his team, under enormous pressure from politicians and the public, begin their investigation which takes them into the murky world of human organ trading.

It is 1914. George Farrell is heartbroken to find that Miss Violet is already promised to another man, Lieutenant Edmund Lyne. George escapes his heartbreak by joining the patriotic rush to war, only to find that his past is not so easily avoided.

When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, ten-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past.

Miss Hare lives alone in the ruins of her family estate in the 1960s suburbs of Sydney. In her wanderings Miss Hare meets Alf Dubbo, an aboriginal artist, Mordecai Himmelfarb, a Holocaust survivor, and Mrs. Godbold, a local washerwoman.

When Dr. Juliet Ryan uncovers a corporate scandal, she quickly learns that the success she dreamed of comes with a very high price. Underneath it all, she struggles to forgive those who betrayed her trust--not least of all her own father.

Under the watchful eye of Detective Chief Superintendent James Langton, Anna is given her first case. But is it a full-blown murder investigation or purely a missing person's case?