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She left Savannah to build a career. Now she's back to find her father's empire in ruins. Investment banker Daphne Harris never planned to return home, but when her father falls ill, she's forced to step into the financial firm that bears her name. What she finds on his computer stops her cold...

Man försöker vara lyckad. Drömmer om att göra karriär. Samtidigt som man vill vara en superbra mamma och en perfekt sambo. Man fantiserar om ett frieri. Har man levt tillsammans med världens finaste man i sju år känns det naturligt att vilja stadga sig på riktigt. Särskilt när han är en attraktiv läkare som bara blir snyggare för varje år. Själv utvecklas man åt motsatt håll - väljer praktiska mjukisklänningar och har håret i hästsvans och släpar runt på en gammal skötväska med stora fickor istället för något avskalat elegant med snitsiga gulddetaljer.

Beneath the Southern charm, Savannah's secrets are darker than its cobblestone streets. US Marshal Katelyn Landers never expected her estranged sister-in-law, Vivienne Chandler, to show up on her doorstep, especially not with a chilling claim that her husband has emptied their bank accounts and...

Gli omicidi della famiglia Hope sconvolsero la costa del Maine in una notte del 1929. Sebbene la maggior parte delle persone ritenesse responsabile la diciassettenne Lenora Hope, la polizia non è mai riuscita a dimostrarlo. A parte la sua smentita dopo gli omicidi, non ne ha mai più parlato pubblicamente, né è mai più uscita da Hope’s End, la casa sulla scogliera dove avvenne il massacro. È il 1983 e l’assistente domiciliare Kit McDeere arriva alla villa per occuparsi di Lenora, sulla settantina e costretta su una sedia a rotelle.

Rachel McKenzie is a brilliant molecular biologist with the State Department on speed dial. The only problem? The world thinks she's dead. When Dr. McKenzie vanishes from a top-secret State Department lab, U. S. Marshals Kate Landers and Joleen Parker are thrust into a dangerous investigation to...

'Glamorous, shocking and deliciously deceptive. The kind of sharp, exciting and sophisticated mystery I just adore' CHRIS WHITAKER 'This whirlwind of a novel presents a glittering façade and then shatters it' THE TIMES 'Intrigue, glamour . . . menace and mystery' FINANCIAL TIMES The Seven...

Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. It seems that Diana and four other neglected wives of Evan's friends recently joked about ways to kill their husbands. Diana's suggested method of murder involved muddling up pills - could this be how Bunny died?

Nygift och befordrad till chefredaktör tänker Louise Locke att lyckan äntligen infunnit sig i hennes liv. Men säg den lycka som varar längre än fem minuter. När Johan får ett utlandskontrakt och kollegorna börjar smussla bakom hennes rygg står hon plötsligt inför helt nya utmaningar. Det här med att vara chef var inte riktigt lika lätt som hon trodde. Till råga på allt har hennes tio år yngre syster Kajsa, som håller på att utbilda sig till coach, bestämt sig för att flytta in i villan i Åkersberga. Louise blir hennes första och högst ofrivilliga klient.

Velma is charm itself, especially when she's being inexact with the truth. Now she wants Bea, widowed owner of the Abbot Agency, to check up on her stepson Philip - he's somehow acquired a valuable picture last seen in the flat of an elderly lady who's been murdered. Maggie, Bea's assistant, moves into a flat in Philip's building, to investigate. However, Rafael a professional art thief who aims never to leave his victims alive, is also after the picture.

Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths which might or might not be suicide. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady with dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems and suspicion falls on the difficult twelve-year-old boy Mikey who Ellie has taken in.

While out collecting some Portuguese laurel for the formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a dead body - a corpse without an identity. Next day, Mrs Dawes is discovered by Ellie and her grandson, Frank, badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.

Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party during which his mother, Vera, a schoolgirl, had been drugged and raped. Abdi hadn't wanted anything to do with her, but now he is a consultant whose wife cannot have children, and he aims to pay off Vera and adopt Mikey. Ellie discovers that Vera still thinks fondly of her then boyfriend, even though he had also rejected her.

There’s nothing sinister about Zander’s request for Bea Abbott to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it’s an awkward situation. Zander exposed a scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust…after which Denzil had, unexpectedly, died. His widow wants to sue the Trust, while the paperwork that could have proved her husband’s guilt has gone missing. Oliver, Bea’s computer geek of an assistant, is delighted to delve into the mysteries left on Denzil’s computer.

Ellie Quicke, although comfortably re-married, is still inclined to act hastily. But when she took in a young rape victim, she didn’t expect it to become an invitation to murder. When she was released from the hospital, Mia had nowhere to go. Mia is threatened by violent deaths which dog her every move . . . and Ellie’s. But who is responsible for these terrifying “accidents”? Ellie has other things on her mind as well, after being asked to help organise the weddings of both her best friend and her daughter.

While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn’t realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy - fleeing from attempts on his life - lands up on her doorstep. Researching the gang who’d used an attractive girl to entrap Jeremy, Bea finds traces of them throughout high society. Can Bea keep Jeremy - and herself - alive, while all he thinks about is composing a song for pretty, dead Josie?

Bea Abbot's domestic agency does not investigate murder...that is, until she finds herself in the company of a dead man dressed as a pantomime dame. It looks like suicide, but why don't his red-spangled shoes fit? Matthew Kent was an entertainer known to be a modest man in private, so why had he staged this grotesque charade in death? And why is his daughter so keen to hustle away his remains?

Bea Abbot and her husband have been running a highly successful domestic agency for many years, but when he falls ill and dies, she is pressured by her MP son and novelist daughter to retire. Bea is so tired from the long years of nursing her husband that all she wants is peace and quiet, and to have her pretty early Victorian house in Kensington, London, all to herself. What she gets is a couple of young lodgers with troubled backgrounds and an old friend banging on her door, asking for help.

Ellie and her new husband Thomas are called to deal with Ursula, a young student who has staged a sit-in at church. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken engagement, her friend Mia's disappearance, and a murder. As she investigates, Ellie begins to suspect that there is more to these events. Soon she finds her own friends and family targeted as a powerful group hunts her down.

Troubles never come singly. Ellie’s old friend and housekeeper falls off a ladder and hurts herself after seeing a “ghost” in a neighbour’s house, while Ellie is trying to get rid of a desperate young man, who says he’s looking for his great aunt… who happens to own the house in question. Mrs Pryce had told everyone she was moving to a retirement home, but never arrived there.

When Ellie Quicke's friend, Felicity, witnesses a Pitbull savage a young mother in the park, she goes into shock and calls on Ellie for help. Ellie's enquiries indicate that the dog and its owner are strangers to the neighbourhood, but soon there are other attacks...and after each one, the dog vanishes.