When Marcus Kirkwall walks into Abby Penhaligon's legal clinic, it is with a highly unusual problem. The young vicar has heard a dying man's confession to a murder committed years before. Having seen another man tried and sentenced for his crime, he wants Marcus to make amends.
The murder is connected with the 1944 sinking of the Richard Montgomery, a ship carrying over 3,000 tons of explosives. Re-opening a fifty-year-old murder investigation won't be easy, but Abby knows this could be the case to kick-start her career. And, as a working class woman with no connections and a sky-high overdraft, she needs every bit of help she can get.
But the Montgomery holds more than one secret and a gang of hardened criminals are watching the case with interest. And they're ruthless enough to ensure that if Abby gets too close to the truth, her first murder case could be her last...

A Wesley Peterson crime novel The ancient gardens of Earlsacre Hall in Devon are being excavated by a local team of historians in preparation for plans to recreate the gardens in their former glory. However the dig is called to a halt when two bodies are discovered under a stone plinth. Over three hundred years old and buried on top of one another, there is every indication that one of the corpses had been buried alive. But, despite the intriguing circumstances, DS Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby for archaeology for he has a rather more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found brutally stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday site. Only there are no clues to his identity but for a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre.
Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He seems eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is found dead during a 'friendly' game of village cricket. The post-mortem reveals that his death was caused by being struck by a cricket ball several times with some force. If Wesley is looking for a demon bowler this appears to let out most of the village side. But what is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder?

Rose Devonic is an unorthodox, ferociously determined twenty-nine-year-old living in the tiny mountain town of Queduro, New Mexico. In winter she sleeps in a mostly abandoned motel, and in summer lives out of her car. A tragedy in Rose's past has made her an outcast who trusts nothing except her own ability to survive.
But now, after another failed love affair, Rosie is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. Remember Me is the captivating story of her battle to win the hearts and minds of her lifelong neighbours - or at least a little respect from a town that has treated her with brutal indifference. Along the way, she comes to understand that only by facing her ghosts will she be able to accept the ultimately liberating challenges of belonging, identity and love.

With a business to run, a son to raise and a complicated personal life, Nina Reilly is a renegade lawyer used to having as much drama in her own home as the courthouse. And now she now has a make-or-break case on her hands.
But Nina is wholly unprepared for her latest client - sixteen-year-old Nikki Zack is a teenager with a chip on her shoulder and revenge in her heart. When Nikki is arrested for her uncle's murder, Nina comes to her aid and takes the case, all the while feeling she's getting in over her head. Since Nina's old flame, Paul Van Wagoner, is the best private investigator around, she elicits his help. As the case gets more interesting and trusts are broken, Nina realizes her own life is on the line. Time is running out for Nina, Nikki and everyone involved.

In Memphis, where the heat clings like a second skin, Olivia Dale's job as a crime reporter is at once surreal - stepping in and out of strangers' lives with her notebook - and all too real. But her latest murder investigation has struck a little too close to home. As she looks down on the twisted body of a young woman who has been kidnapped and gruesomely killed, she realises how easily it could have been her. Olivia even looks a little like Allison Avery. Chasing a lead story, she finds herself drawn deep in to the secrets of Allison's life - and tempted by her own dark side...

Praise for Body of a Girl.
"It's hard to believe that this is a first novel; harder still to believe that Leah Stewart is only twenty-five years old. A smart sexy literary page-tumer ... The secret at its heart will astonish you." Manette Ansay, author of Midnight Champagne and Vinegar Hill