Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Isobel Blundell isn't looking forward to her special birthday. Her archaeologist husband, Douglas, is in South America, and she and their three children miss him sorely. On her birthday, Isobel's mother Ailsa, and sisters Kirsty and Dorrie, give her Douglas's gift - an airline ticket! Overjoyed, ...

As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven, Peggy Reilly's sister Doris must seek refuge after a V-1 blast destroys her home. Rita, Sarah and the other residents at Beach View Boarding House quickly find their peace disturbed and it's not long before even Peggy loses her patience. But with...

Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. On trial for murder is Betsy Grant, widow of a wealthy doctor who has...

Fran hates Ash Mountain, and she thought she'd escaped. But her father is ill and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway. She returns to her hometown to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sl...

A case of spontaneous human combustion tests Detective Inspector Dryer's beliefs, when someone appears, claiming that the victim was targeted by an ancient demon and that others will suffer the same fate. Three stories of the strange and mysterious.

After the death of her parents, Evangeline must succeed as a schoolteacher in a remote region of Northern England in order to claim her inheritance from her grandfather and be reunited with her younger sister, Lucy. When a local bricklayer, Dermot, offers his help, she finds herself falling in lo...

1800s Venice: This is a tale of Americans in Europe, against the settings of a Venetian palace. The plot revolves around the intrigue of an unscrupulous publisher as he attempts to expose the secrets of a past some would like to forget.

James Cronley's first mission for the new Central Intelligence Directorate has drawn all kinds of attention, some welcome, some not. On the plus side, he's now a captain, promoted to Chief, DCI, Europe and in charge of a top secret spy operation...

When the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police's Special Crimes Division is certain there's a message in the murder.

In 1866 Colonel Thomas Sykes, late of the Confederate Army, is in Milledgeville gaol waiting to be hanged. But he is unexpectedly pardoned and freed on the condition that he helps find and rescue the president's niece, who is being held by a band of stagecoach robbers. The task proves to be far f...