SYNOPSIS When the long buried bones of a man turn up in the middle of December, Pennsylvania homicide detective Parker Reed knows he’s in for a cold case. Trisha and her friends were teenagers when Trisha’s stepdad went missing. Now, thirty years later, his remains have been found in the mountains. The women have always … More COLD WOODS By Karen Katchur
SYNOPSIS ‘She reached into the pram and placed her hands on the cotton blanket. It was still warm. But her smiling, new baby sister, with her wide blue-grey eyes, was gone…’ Twenty five years later, three bodies are found at a ramshackle cottage in the Irish countryside, and Detective Iris Locke is sick to her … More SILENT NIGHT By Geraldine Hogan
SYNOPSIS Mother. Liar. Murderer? When Genevieve’s seven year old son is found bleeding to death in his own home, she’s horrified when the police turn to her for answers. There’s no evidence of a break in, and parts of Genevieve story don’t seem to make sense. But could a mother really kill her own child? … More THE BOY By Tami Hoag
SYNOPSIS PLAY Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges onscreen, kills her and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself? … More REWIND By Catherine Ryan Howard
SYNOPSIS Jane Tennyson has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or ‘the Sweeney’. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys’ club, and Jane’s new colleagues make it clear that they don’t think a woman is up to the dangers of the job. Dealing with some … More THE DIRTY DOZEN By Lynda LaPlante
SYNOPSIS Desperate to put her past in the rear view mirror, Finn Hunt leaves the Midwest for Phoenix, Arizona, where no one knows her story. While she is working a dead-end job, a chance meeting with Philip Martin, son of a prominent U S Senator, leads Finn to a position as nanny for Amabel, his … More THE GIRL IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR By Kelsey Rae Dimberg
SYNOPSIS Returning early from a destroys date night with my husband, I know something is wrong the moment the wheels crunch the gravel drive of her home. Inside, the TV is on and a half eaten meal waits on the table. My heart stops when I find our little girl is alone in the house … More DATE NIGHT By Samantha Hayes
SYNOPSIS The photo fell from her grasp at the sudden thought of her sister. She stared at it, lying on the floor, remembering little Hattie with her big dark eyes in her stripy pink-and-white shorts, the ones she was wearing on the day she disappeared… Detective Carrie Flynn has spent twenty years searching for her … More THE NIGHT CALLER By J.M.Hewitt
SYNOPSIS After Jason is committed to a mental institution, he begins to uncover things he never knew before or things his mind shut out to protect him. Under the care of the facility’s doctors, he finds himself questioning what’s real and what’s not. What is the truth? What happened to him? Is his mind playing … More A PREDATOR AND A PSYCHOPATH By Jay Kerk
SYNOPSIS A gripping and compassionate drama of two families linked by chance, love and tragedy Gilliam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhope as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope – cold, elegant, unstable – … More ASK AGAIN, YES By Mary Beth Keane
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