Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Lawyer Josh Thorn believes in law and justice. Even so, when he agrees to defend prostitute Rosa May Whitefield, he knows he jeopardizes his standing in the community. The California mining town of Bodie averages a killing a day, but Rosa May's crime broke all the rules when she shot one man dead...

Hayley Burke has landed a dream job: she is the new curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's First Edition library. The library is kept at Middlebank House, a lovely Georgian home in Bath, England. Hayley lives on the premises and works with the finicky Glynis Woolgar, Lady Fowling's former secretary....

After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium. Years later, Wakewater House is renovated into modern apartments and Kirsten moves in, fresh from...

When his estranged daughter Katherine appears on his doorstep, ex-Detective Frank Elder knows that something is wrong. Katherine has long been troubled, and Elder has always felt powerless to help her. But now she has begun to self-destruct. The breakdown of her affair with a controversial artist...

More crimes for Casey Clunes to solve. A body is found in a multi-storey car park, and by the sound of it, the deceased has antagonised any number of people... When a horse bolts at the local riding stables, and the body of a young girl is found, it looks like an unfortunate accident. But soon, f...

Ipswich, 1919: On her way to teach Sunday School, Margaret Preston finds a badly injured man unconscious at the chapel gate. She and her widowed father, Reverend Preston, take him in and call the doctor. When the stranger regains consciousness, he tells them he has lost his memory, not knowing wh...

The body in the clouds tells the story of one extraordinary moment a man falling from the sky and surviving and of three men who see it, in different ways and different times, as they stand on the same piece of land.

For the most part, the dead man received public sympathy. A decent, hardworking chap, with not an enemy anywhere. People were surprised that anybody should want to kill Jim. But Jim has been drowned in the Dumb River, near Ely, miles from his Yorkshire home. His body, clearly dumped in the usuall...

The Bantry's wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy make-up. But who is she? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?

"When several bodies are washed up in the swamplands of east Texas, the local police suspect drug-runners, and the Feds are called in to investigate - but can discover little. Possum Choa lives off the fat of the land, but his way of life is now threatened by the criminals infesting the area. Wit...