For the isolated and intense community of Buriton University in Cornwell, the arson attack on the college's registry office and the resulting death of a second year undergraduate has far-reaching consequences. Sylvester Crawford, the invalid husband ...
Phoebe Britton dies in a climbing "accident" in the Swiss Alps, which does nothing to slow her husband Aiden's seemingly inevitable march towards 10 Downing Street. After the funeral, Phoebe's cosmopolitan sister Rosamund realises just how far her br...
"Richly plotted, grandly peopled, and amusingly vivid" Kirkus ReviewsRecently discovered oil on the barren and isolated island of Forway has caused a plan for evacuation so that the entire island can be used for an oil rig. The islanders, however, in...
When the author of a manuscript on the disappearance of the Prussian crown jewels in the mid-1800s is killed just before a scheduled exhibition of the jewels, archaeologist and British secret agent Tamara Hoyland investigates a century of fraud...
A tour group in Egypt visit an archaeological dig on an isolated island in the Aswan Dam. Before they leave two people have died. Tamara Hoyland, the heroine of other Jessica Mann novels, who is with the group to watch over one of them, decides to in...
Undercover agent Tamara Hayland is led to the jungles of Brazil in search of clues to the suspicious suicide of Louise Dench, whose husband Robert Waugh had perished months before under mysterious circumstances--possibly involving native witchcraft...
An accidental remark on a television programme lands novelist Anne Medlicott in a potentially damaging libel suit. The programme is about Nazi sympathisers in England during the last war, and the other two guests are a distinguished exile from Ger...
An anonymous telephone threat endangers more than the professional integrity of arbitrator Barbara Pomeroy in this tautly woven, intricately plotted mystery novel. It also imperils her young son, Toby -- unless Barbara rules in the caller’s favor. ...
"So long as one isn't found out... that's the eighth deadly sin, didn't you know? A man meets a woman at a cocktail party; he takes her out to dinner, the evening ends intimately in his office, they return to their respective homes and partners. They...
It is 1940, and the world is at war. Britain is evacuating its children, to keep them 'out of harms way' and Ted Johns, son of the groundskeeper at the manor house in Goonzoyle finds himself in steerage aboard the evacuees' ship, SS City of Benares. ...
Gillian Butler moved away from Edinburgh 50 years ago, or so her friends thought. When her murdered body is found, they must try to remember who last saw her alive. Perhaps it was Isabel, now a novelist and people-tracer, or the twice widowed Hannah,...
Tamara Hoyland, formerly an undercover operative for government intelligence, has been a blameless wife, mother and archaeologist for nearly twenty years. But now her three sons have flown the nest, her husband is working abroad, her day job is about...
When Victoria agreed to be the executor of her aunt's will, she thought it would be simple task. But a stranger arrives on the doorstep and claims that it all belongs to her. Victoria's efforts to establish the rightful owner of the Kittermaster fort...