'An interesting and credible cast of characters and a good twisty-turny plot MS London

Widowed Elizabeth Blair leaves her native Virginia behind to lead a peaceful life running a quilt shop in Bath. However behind the genteel façade of the English countryside, she discovers a darker truth.
Elizabeth is indignant when the anarchic Animal Liberation Front (ALF) places a poster in the window of her shop. Furious with the terrorist approach used for their campaign, she enlists the help of her handsome private eye neighbour, Max Shepard, to try and stop their attacks. But when the spiteful, wealthy Joanna Drew is murdered, and blame is directed at the ALF, Elizabeth is unconvinced. She joins the Wetherbum Museum of quilting owned and run by the Drews as a guest lecturer, and there discovers the complicated web, of interrelationships that exists amongst the members of the Drew family. With Max's help, Elizabeth has to find the killer, before the killer finds them.

Someone is killing the lawyers. Who will be next?
Harry Devlin knows he's playing a dangerous game getting involved with Juliet May, who just happens to be married to one of Liverpool's most ruthless villains. But he finds himself playing for altogether higher stakes when one of their secret trysts is curtailed by the discovery of a freshly-decapitated corpse.
The victim, crown prosecutor Carl Symons, had plenty of enemies. But when a second lawyer is brutally murdered, Harry has another reason to look over his shoulder: he's being stalked by a stranger with a secret obsession.
In desperation, Harry finds himself lying to the police, lying to his colleagues and getting into deep, deep trouble. But before the mysteries confronting him can be solved, his life is to change forever.

This, the seventh novel in Martin Edwards' highly-acclaimed series featuring frayed-around-the-edges Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin, successfully blends elements of the classic detective story with a dark, urban, contemporary atmosphere to produce a truly gripping read.

Praise for Martin Edwards:
'Martin Edwards writes terrific crime novels about Harry Devlin...with bruised emotions, a nice line in self-deprecation and penchant for Mersey low-life' The Guardian
'Mr Edwards' quietly effective mysteries are a pleasure to encounter' New Law Journal
'Good entertainment with no unnecessary frills' Sunday Telegraph
'The chameleon city of Liverpool provides a dramatic background for Edwards' Harry Devlin novels, revealing itself in all its seediness and splendour' Val Mcdermid

The sixth Eddathorpe mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Robert Graham takes him to Nottingham: a city well known to his creator, a police officer with the Nottinghamshire Constabulary for many years.

Someone is blackmailing a local supermarket chain. And getting away with it, thank to a very clever payoff method involving hole-in-the-wall bank machines and a bit of glaring police incompetence. When the blackmailers descend on Eddathorpe Robert Graham is called in. He thinks it is an inside job - and sets out to prove it.
He doesn't know the case is going to escalate from fraud to murder. And that its unravelling could change his life...
Once again, sleepy, seedy Eddathorpe hides its secrets well - and once again, East Anglia's magnet for murder, Robert Graham, teases them out with his own unique combination of solid policework and brilliant intuition.

When Frank Brennan's intended interlude of back-seat passion with his wife Janet is disturbed by a fast-moving convoy of army trucks, Brennan has more than frustrated passion on his mind. For this is a minor road, a back route over Salisbury Plain...so what's the rush?
Turned away by army troops at a road block, he succeeds in breaching the security cordon and witnesses a bizarre and chilling sight. In the glare of hastily-erected footlights, soldiers in biological warfare suits are blue-bagging the heads of a dozen dead cattle. When Brennan returns in daylight, there is nothing: no cordon, no lorries, and only live cattle grazing peacefully.
But Brennan knows what he saw. Blue-bagging of dead animals is a signal of biological attack has just taken place. And the government's research establishment at Porton Down only a few miles away...

Exhausted after a recent worldwide tour, international cellist Sara Selkirk somehow allows herself to become involved with the local amateur opera group, partly because of her growing attraction to the music-loving DCI Poole, who is also a reluctant member.
Sara almost immediately begins to regret her involvement as the other members of the group start to bicker and squabble. There's faded opera diva Helene and her autistic daughter Adele; vain but untalented composer Cosmo with his long-suffering girlfriend Poppy. Not to mention Andrew's embittered wife, Valerie, who's beginning to grow suspicious.
It doesn't take long for Sara to suspect that the forthcoming rendition of Cosmo's opera about Beau Nash won't be a success. But the last thing she suspected was a sudden, violent death...

Praise for Morag Joss' first novel. Funeral Music
'A new and exciting talent in British crime writing' PD James
'Both literate and sardonic, filled with persuasive characters' Sunday Times
'An exceptionally accomplished first novel, worthy of comparison with Ruth Rendell' Bel Mooney
'Well written and well plotted, with a good Bath background' Evening Standard
'The plot twists and turns with satisfying cleverness. .. Music lovers will admire Morag Joss's expertise and anybody who loves Bath itself has to buy this novel for the setting alone' Bath Chronicle

Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.

Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case. Geoffrey's lovely wife Melva readily admits to the crime passional: after finding Geoff in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, she pulled the trigger on husband number two. It sounds like and open-and- shut case for McNally and Son's Department of Discreet Inquiries, all Melva asks is that Archy shield her daughter Veronica from the press and paparazzi. Gallant Archy takes the case and escorts grownup, gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally mansion. But when Veronica's story doesn't match Melva's, which doesn't match Geoffs, Archy realises he does indeed
Have a dilemma on his hands. Someone is lying, and the one person who knows the truth - Geoffrey's perky playmate - got away.

When David marries Tessa he feels life is starting all over again. He gets a transfer to a small police station in mid Wales, leaving behind the stresses of inner-London policing, his previous marriage, and the son who doesn't want to see him anymore. Tessa, an artist, will be able to paint from the cosy little cottage in a Welsh village. But soon David and Tessa realise that they've chosen entirely the wrong village: if s full of unpleasant people, innuendo and nasty looks. Tessa is being harassed by a local youth who turns out to be something much more dangerous than a stalker.
And when a local nurse is killed and David's job becomes all-important once more, she has no one to turn to...

'Templeton's a considerable writer, both intelligent and intuitive' Literary Review