TO THE MARRIAGE OF TWO MINDS... After twenty-six years of marriage, Donald and Helen make no pretense of being passionately in love. Happily independent of each other, they get their pleasures elsewhere. But things get a bit too cozy when Donal...
From the bestselling author of The Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Hill Series... No one was more stunned than Annie Maddox when they found the body of Gerald Culver MP. Because Annie, the manager of the Wellington Hotel, Amblesea, was Culver's mistr...
From the bestselling author of The Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Hill Series...Alan Blake's dead body is discovered at the bottom of a quarry. Above him, a group of people gather in the gloom near his abandoned Mercedes. They're all people whose lives...
From the bestselling author of The Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Hill Series...Sixteen years ago, Bill Holt was jailed for the murder of two people: Alison, his lifelong friend whom once people had assumed he’d marry, and a private detective. He kne...
"A murder so baffling it might even have stumped Agatha Christie's Miss Marple...A lively, entertaining mystery."
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A killing blow on the head took the life of Graham Estow, but the vicar and his wife were hardly grieved...
When Diana Hamlyn's bludgeoned body is found on the playing field at the English school where her husband is deputy headmaster, detecting duo Inspecter Lloyd and Detective Judy Hill find a classroom full of suspects, including her grieving husband, h...
From the bestselling author of The Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Hill Series...Frank Derwent , known in the business as FD, the multibillion-dollar director and Hollywood hotshot, has come to western Scotland to shoot a simple movie of love gone wron...
Both murder victims were dishy; both had rich husbands. Otherwise, Leonora Austin, struggling artist, and Rosemary Beale, ex-call girl, had nothing in common. Until the night they were both found br4tailliy murdered, with an open phone line between t...
"ARE YOU THE OTHER WOMAN? THIS NEWSPAPER WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM WOMEN WHOSE MEN BELONG TO SOMEONE ELSE...." When reporter Melissa Whitworth places this ad, she never expects to find herself interviewing her own husband's mistress. Nor that the yo...
IF EVER ANYONE DESERVED TO DIE, IT WAS MILLIONAIRE VICTOR HOLYOAK. Holyoak's favorite tactic was to kick people when they were down, then pick them up and kick them again. Now the great man himself was down--brutally stabbed to death in his pentho...
Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case. But s...
When the body of fifteen-year-old Natalie Ouspensky is found strangled near a public park in Stansfield, England, Detective Inspector Judy Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd have their work cut out for them. For Natalie wasn't quite the innocen...
East Midlands farmer Bernard Bailey, a violent man with a brutal temper, stands to pocket a hefty inheritance if he fathers a male child. After destroying one wife to achieve this end, Bailey turns his next marriage into a twisted business arrangemen...
When the owners of a struggling detective agency are found asphyxiated in their car, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd rejects the majority opinion that they committed suicide. And his theory--that they were murdered--becomes even more likely when the ...
Real-life crime has engulfed the domestic life of the Riverside Theatre players. For starters, there's the violent death of Estelle Bignall, the beautiful, neurotic wife of a well-to-do doctor (and aspiring resident playwright). In truth, suicide see...
Dean Fletcher had spent virtually all his twenty-four years doing things practically guaranteed to land him in trouble. But not until he fell for a blonde nymphet named Kayleigh Scott did he manage to totally ruin his life. Kayleigh had told him she ...
Michael Waterman is a self-made millionaire. His casinos and nightclubs ensure a constant flow of cash, and Waterman knows what he needs to do to keep it that way. So far, it seems, he has stayed on the right side of the law. Certainly, no one seriou...
"The smile froze on Judy's lips as she heard the scream. It seemed to come from the direction in which she had just walked; she retraced her steps, and saw the girl she had seen earlier, standing by the willow tree, by the pram, her hands to her mout...
The murder of a deputy headmaster's wife on the night of the Sesquicentennial Ball at a minor-league boys' public school brings together the team of Inspector Lloyd and Judy Hill. Diana Hamlyn's body has been found on the school's playing field. Deat...
A white Christmas. Deepening snow isolated the village from the outside world. By the time the body in the vicarage was discovered, Byford was cut off altogether . . . A domestic murder - Chief Inspector Lloyd thought it would be an open and shut cas...
The first three books in Jill McGown's classic crime series, featuring Detective Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill A PERFECT MATCH: The news that a woman's body has been found in a boathouse rocks the town of Stansfield. The case appears simple...