Collection: Fiction

When Sierra discovers her ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love.

A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife...

Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, he can track where objects have come from, or where they've gone. It's a unique skill that can help solve all sorts of mysteries. Such as when two severed feet wash up miles apart on the coast of Scotland.

Nicole Frank, after surviving a car accident, enlists the help of Sergeant Wyatt Foster to find a missing girl. Who is Nicky Frank, and what happened the night her car sailed off the road? Was it a random accident or something more sinister?

When Nick Deegan's wife, Kate, dies, he has no idea how he'll manage. But on the day of her funeral, he discovers a book Kate left for him. Her instructions for raising the children give him comfort, but her other plans for him seem much more daunting...

On the Northumberland coast Julie Armstrong arrives home to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued...

Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots - but adultery, treachery and pent-up jealousies stalk the corridors of Broadcasting House...

During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. He and his wife Suzana were forced to flee Sarajevo and the death of their children...

This collection of short fiction includes stories, verse and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary in 2013, as well Black Dog, a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.

The prevailing atmosphere of the book is of unquenchable life - tragic, comic, sordid and beautiful. It is a crowded canvas, with the figures strikingly contrasted, often eccentric, but always alive.