IT WAS THE PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE SEASON...UNTIL SOMEONE ADDED MURDER TO THE MENU. When Quentin Hale, the ruthless new takeover boss of one of Australia's oldest publishing houses, launched a glittering round of parties, interviews, and book sign...
AUNTIE ALICE'S APPLE-PICKING EVENT HAD TAKEN ON A DECIDEDLY SOUR NOTE THIS YEAR. Kate and her husband, Jeremy, generally enjoyed the Tenders' annual event. But this season something was gnawing away under the rosy surface like bitter rot. Aunt ...
In a jolly collection of eight short mysteries, Verity Birdwood encounters a murdered department store Santa, a wife who is perfectly dead, the "suicide" of a matinee idol, and a proper lady who is lethal--among other whodunits. Reprint....
THIS LUXURIOUS SPA PROMISES A COMPLETE NEW YOU--BUT THE PRICE MAY BE MURDER Margot Bell's beauty spa was a glamorous retreat where women were transformed--for a price. Verity Birdwood had come on assignment as a TV researcher, none too thrilled wi...
After seventy-year-old radio star Max Tully announces his engagement to his young, seductive housekeeper, Mai Tran, Verity Birdwood is called in to investigate nasty threats against the enigmatic beauty, threats that lead to murder. Original....
His was a homecoming watched round the world -- but was he an innocent victim or a coldhearted killer?
After serving five years for the murder of his wife, Trevor Lamb was a free man . . . thanks to idealistic lawyer Jude Dilanchion, whose...
On the rambling country manse of Haven, Senior Detective Tessa Vance hopes to find a little piece of heaven. But instead she finds herself immersed in hell.
A famous pop star lies dead in a toolshed, presumably from a suicide. The three angeli...
She stared into the speckled mirror, wondering how she had come to this. How could she, Holly Love, apple of her parents' eye, competent manipulator of invoices in Gorgon Office Supplies, have ended up alone and starving in a dead man's flat? How ...