After a successful acting career, culminating in the role of Lydia Marchant, in the series "Lydia Marchant Investigates", Rina Martin is retired. Absolutely retired, isn't she? DI Sebastian McGregor, Mac, is looking for a quiet place to recover his nerve after an investigation went terribly wrong and a child died. Young George Parker and his mother and sister are on the run from a violent past. Like Mac and Rina, he thinks he has found a sanctuary in the sleepy seaside town of Frantham but then...
Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his younger daughter or come to terms with his father, he has a dangerous philosophy that life, and academic life, could be simpler, but he fails to see the larger consequences of his own actions or of the small...
'A deliciously warm, welcoming, fun contemporary read and just perfect for a summer's day.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Sarah Bennett always keeps me entertained from the very first page' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Laurie Morgan runs a café in the small seaside community of Mermaids Point, named after the beauties rumoured to live in the waters a few miles off the top of the point. When a hazy image is posted online of what appears to be a mermaid, the café and the village are soon full to bursting with curious sightseers.The mo...
Murder at the Lighthouse (Exham-on-Sea Murder Mysteries, #1)
by Frances Evesham
The Rebel And The Heiress (The Wild Ones, #2) (Mills & Boon Cherish)
by Michelle Douglas and Rebecca Winters
THE REBEL AND THE HEIRESS Nell Smythe-Whittaker has grown up in a privileged world. Now, with the loss of her family fortune, it’s time to make it on her own… with a little help from delicious bad boy Rick Bradford! Yet when she uncovers Rick’s chequered past, will she still be willing to help this rebel? A COWBOY’S HEART Driving to Vegas with the Sexiest Cowboy of the Year is a dream come true for barrel-racing finalist Liz Henson. Now’s her chance to get up close...
Beyond Enemy Lines (American Historical Romance, #2)
by Kathryn Kaleigh
Dearest Dorothy, Slow Down, You're Wearing Us Out! (Welcome to Partonville, #2)
by Charlene Ann Baumbich
When an October storm does severe damage to the roof of St. Patrick's church, the whole town of Fairacre works together to put on a festival and raise money for the repairs.
Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition when she receives the news that her mother, with whom she has had no contact for years, has drowned in the river near her nursing home. In an attempt to understand the circumstances of her death, she returns to V, the village where she grew up in the parched, sun-drenched hills above the Mediterranean. When she arrives there, Billie finds herself reliving memories of another river drowning, 20 years earlier, memories...
Taming The Sheik (Silhouette Romance, #1554) (, #1554)
by Carol Grace
Anne Sheridan would never have missed her best friend's wedding. It was the flowers she couldn't handle. And after taking one too many antihistamines, the allergy-ridden bridesmaid found herself being carried off by dashing groomsman Sheik Rafik Harun. Imagine her surprise when she woke up in the notorious bachelor's bed! Honor kept Rafik from taking advantage of the drowsy beauty in his care. But now desperation had him making an even bolder request-that she pose as his fiancee! Only...
She's got an uncanny knack for winning at slots, but her home-sweet-home is Bad-Ass Bert's Biker Saloon. She'd love to go deep undercover with an irresistibly hot cop, but he's got baggage as big as his biceps. She's survived a mysterious tragedy, but Mojo Sheepshanks hasn't quite figured out who she really is or how to get on with her life. And now the wisecracking Mojo is seeing ghosts--the real, ectoplasmic kind--and turning up baffling clues to her real identity. Suddenly a wealthy man is cl...
Material Witness (A Shipshewana Amish Mystery, #3)
by Vannetta Chapman
Tragedy strikes on the opening night of the Fall Crafters Fair when a woman is killed in the parking lot of Daisy's Quilt Shop, and the only material witness is one of Melinda Byer's boys. The investigation takes a more bizarre turn when detective Shane Black becomes convinced the killer was actually after Callie. This time it's a madman loose in the largest crowd of the year, and he's looking for something or someone. If they can't figure out what, one of Deborah and Callie's close circle of f...
They break down the door at the end of December and carry his body away. On a still and frozen day between Christmas and New Year, a man's body is found lying in his ruined flat. Found, and then taken away, examined, investigated and cremated. As the state begins its detailed, dispassionate inquest, the man embarks on his last journey through a world he has not ventured into, alive, for years. In his wake, a series of fractured narratives emerge from squats and alleyways across the city: the s...