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An estate’s bad reputation deteriorates further when a cat comes home with a human foot. A body has been left rotting for weeks and Calladine is afraid that an old serial killer has returned to the streets… Dead Real is the 12th book in Helen H. Durrant’s Calladine and Bayliss series. The personal storyline continues […]

A killer is loose on the streets of York, posing his victims like scarecrows and removing their eyes, hands and feet. The victims are not hugely sympathetic characters yet the police must bring the killer to justice… The Scarecrow is the 18th book in the Jason Smith series and I am a HUGE fan of […]

A German mother’s terrible choice: to flee the approaching Soviets with her son who is ill or leave him to get the medical help he needs to live? Emma is a German woman living in Poland at the end of WW2. She abandons her home to save her children but Jacob falls ill on the […]

  An allegedly cursed island becomes the setting for unexplained deaths. One death could have been accidental but a second the following day seems unlikely to be coinicidental. DS Elin Warner tentatively returns to work but is she ready for this case…? The Retreat is the second book to feature Elin Warner but the first […]

Tess and her husband Oliver are hiding a huge secret. But Tess is also convinced that he is having an affair and their life together is threatened from multiple angles… Liar Liar is a psychological thriller set in America. The majority of the book is written in the present day but there are chapters from […]