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  Dell Shaw has a beautiful but resentful mother and a kind but drug addicted father. On one visit to her mother, she is groped by a ‘friend’ of Anita’s, but finds no support from either her mother or the man’s wife. Instead they blame her for inciting his attentions. Years later, she falls in […]

  Somehow the previous 7 books in this series had escaped my notice (I blame the kids as I gave up reading due to lack of time and am now rediscovering my passion as I try to inspire them to love books too). Book number 8 Silent Crimes works perfectly as a stand alone book […]

  Meg discovers her husband Oliver does not want children and is devastated by his choice but also by the fact he kept it a secret: she almost feels likes he tricked her into marriage by claiming to want kids too. She leaves him just before Christmas and when she phones her mum to let […]

  TRIGGER WARNING: this book deals with rape and forced adoptions Adele Foyle discovers a back pack containing a diary when she is clearing out her late grandmother’s home. These precious belongings were the property of her mother who died giving birth to her. Reading the diary, Adele is devastated to learn that she was […]

  Successful newsreader Maddy is on air when she discovers that her husband has been in a serious car crash. Was it an accident? Is it linked to her daughter’s ex boyfriend who threatened him the night before? Is there a connection with his former friend’s suicide? Or was Maddy herself the target, it was […]