A Secret StateA Dark ConspiracyA Terrible Crime [ About the Book ] Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic’s People’s Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered – bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was…
A sweeping story of love, betrayal and war…. [ About the Book ] Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home…
‘Before they found the girl in the alley, I found a book in the foyer at work. The girl would be found dead, her neck bloody, her body covered with a red coat, and with no obvious clues as to who had left her that way. The book was brand new, unopened, wrapped in brown…
Two women.A world at war.Can they survive the Shanghai Ghetto? [ About the Book ] It is April 1939, and, in Berlin and Vienna, Esther and Kitty face a brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai … They’ve heard it whispered that Shanghai might offer refuge. And so, on a crowded…
They met in cosmopolitan London in the 1980s – a decade of opportunity where everything seemed possible.But was it? [ About the Book ] Set in London in the mid-1980s – a decade of opportunity where everything seemed possible – Helen Bartlett, a popular news presenter and Sam Aziz, a glamorous middle-eastern cardiac surgeon, meet…
Today I join Tracey Iceton on tour with White Leaves of Peace, the final part of the explosive Celtic Colours Trilogy, just released with Cinnamon Press. Set in Northern Ireland both around the time of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and June of 2016 just after the Brexit referendum, we follow Cian Duffy as he confronts…
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he? [ About the Book ] Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by…
Today I join Jan Edwards on tour with an extract from her latest novel In Her Defence. It’s book two in the series featuring Bunch Courtney and is set against a backdrop of an escalating war in 1940. I do hope you enjoy! [ About the Book ] Bunch Courtney’s hopes for a quiet market-day…
‘The deeper you go, the darker your intent’ [ About the Book ] “How far would you go to get out?” This is the question three unlikely friends living in a dead-end town in America ask each other. The answer would come to haunt them.The narrator is a writer in his late 30s, eking out…
‘They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. [ About the Book ] 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on…