Norman Openheim is an American veteran of the D Day Landings, on a sentimental journey with his old unit to their West Country base. His is the last body archaeologist Openheim Watson expects to find in the ruins of an old chantry chapel...
Neil naturally turns to his old friend from student days, Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson, for help. Ironically, both men are looking at an invading force - Wes the WWII Yanks and hell a group of shipwrecked Spaniards reputed to have met a sticky end at the hands of outraged locals as they limped from the wreckage of the great Armada. Local memories are retentive, and Wes is soon caught up in old accusations, resentments and romances from fifty years before. But the coolness of Openheim's wife Dorinda, and her reliance on a fellow veteran in the party, offer an all-too-familiar motive for murder.
A belligerent group of homeless youths are also under suspicion: then another veteran's wife disappears. Wes's case grows more perplexing, while Neil uncovers a tragic story from the distant past. Over four hundred years apart two strangers in a strange land have died violently - could the same motives of hatred, jealousy and revenge be at work! Wes is running out of time to find out...

An intriguing blend of history and detection from the author of The Merchant's House.

On a study trip to Leningrad, literature student Stéphanie meets Sergei, an enigmatic young dissident. Even in the supposedly enlightened days of Gorbachev, Sergei is in constant danger because of his political beliefs. So when he asks Stéphanie to agree to a marriage of convenience she is unable to refuse him. But it becomes increasingly clear that Sergei is harbouring more than one secret. Stéphanie is forced to question whether their first meeting was as accidental as it seemed...

The U.S. Government has sanctioned two top-secret scientific experiments, both morally questionable and potentially devastating. These twin covert operations are each part of a dark and sinister agenda: an attempt to use Multiple Personality Disorder to create the perfect assassin.

Mind Games is Hilary Norman's eleventh novel. She is the author of ten internationally bestselling titles translated into seventeen languages, including Chateau Ella, Spellbound, The Pact and Too Close which was published by Piatkus Books in 1998.
She is currently working on her twelfth novel, another psychological suspense, and on a television drama set in Wales.

Garner Quinn and Lara Spangler had vowed to be friends forever. But a week after they'd made their promise sixteen-year-old Lara Spangler was dead, brutally murdered by the one person she should have trusted most - her father. On All Soul's Day, mild-mannered Gordon Spangler had slaughtered brutally his whole family and vanished without a trace.
Garner Quinn has never forgotten the Spangler family. Now a bestselling true crime writer, one too many encounters with violent death have left her insisting she'll never write another book. But when a journalist friend tells her he's seen Gordon Spangler, and then ends up dead himself, Garner is determined to continue the investigation - and finally bring the killer to justice.
Only Spangler will stop at nothing to protect his identity ... and Garner has to hope that she finds him before he finds her!