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1939. Norma is pregnant. And when the man who promised to marry her is arrested for murder, she has only one option left: run. A borrowed wedding ring. A fake name. A one-way ticket to Wales. Mrs Finch never existed before that train journey, but now...

Did Henry VIII really plan to have Anne Boleyn's beloved dog thrown out the window? Was Elizabeth I secretly a man? Who were the Grey sisters, and why is theirs one of the saddest Tudor stories of all? From Henry VII to Elizabeth I, Bloody, Brilliant...

It is 1964 and fun-loving Rita has her dream job, working as a nanny for a huge popstar and his family. At first it seems great fun. The house is always full of glamorous people and parties, but soon she begins to worry for the children, who are...

Eddie “Lucky” Brennan is a professional killer. A gun for hire who has been leaving bodies across Chicago for more than a century. Lucky’s long life isn’t an accident. It’s payment. Saved from death by a demon from Hell, he has spent the last hundred...

When it's one of your own, you pull out all the stops.' DCI Bill Slider and his team are plunged into a city-wide manhunt when the body of a police officer is found dumped in a canal. Murder is always treated seriously, but when the victim is a...

May 1951. Celebration is in the air with the Festival of Britain and for the first time in years the mood is one of hope rather than hurt. For Detective Constable Faye Smith, London is not as safe as it seems. The criminal underworld is gaining...

Sydney, 1980s: Belle Fitzgerald, young, rich and spirited, lives in Kings Cross, the city's bohemian heart. When she learns of plans to demolish her street and evict its residents, she commits to fighting the development, even though this brings her...

Where does David belong? David Kirke’s childhood is sheltered, his nature is gentle and peaceable; he is no hero of romance but a human being with faults and failings which lead him into trouble when he adventures into the world to seek his fortune....

“If Carolus Deene catches so much as a whiff of murder he will be on the scent with all the persistence and gusto of a dachshund in search of truffles.” While Senior History Master of Queen’s School, Newminster, Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as...

You've woken up in a hospital bed with no memory of who you are or how you came to be hurt. But the police are at hand to fill you in on what happened. You were in a car accident. And they have found a dead body in the boot. You want to tell them that...

‘Your Excellency,’ said the knight, ‘there may also be Christians in there. How can we tell which is a heretic, and which a good Catholic?’ ‘Kill them all,’ said the papal legate. ‘God will know his own!’ AD 1209: When a robbery in Sherwood goes...

For the villagers of Brimberley, the worst thing looming on the horizon is the chance of being outshone by the rival village choir of Bramshott - that is, until Brimberley's lead tenor is blown up in his home by an explosion that rocks the whole...

Detective Bec Whitfield thought she'd found paradise in tropical Mission Beach—and maybe even love with charming local developer Jake Morrison. But when Cyclone Meredith threatens the coast, emergency preparations uncover a twenty-year-old secret...

When a routine restoration ends in death, photographer Georgina Drake finds herself documenting murder instead of stained glass… Georgina is photographing the restoration of St Edmund’s church when young craftsman Liam Jacobs collapses after eating...

Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier: her son, Dougie is at university, her friend Orla will give birth at any minute, and she's becoming ever closer to...

At Firenze, the reclusive artist Adrian Delafield’s Florentine enclave in St John’s Wood, the whispers of an impending tragedy are growing louder. The tension between the fanatical zealot of a housekeeper Miss Trimming and Delafield’s sister Virgilia...

Boarding an airliner headed from New York to London, writer Jane Forrest knows it will be a turbulent flight. An electrical storm stands between Jane and London. When a spectacular surge of lightning illuminates the clouds below them and the airliner...

You can try to hide. But this gangland boss will get their revenge... no matter how long it takes. Lifelong friends Lori Graham and Stephanie Lyle are sitting on the balcony of Lori's flat in Glasgow, chatting, drinking, enjoying the summer's warmth....

Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand. Her Uncle Pike and his new boyfriend Devon are looking after her while her mum is on a Christmas cruise. Tippy can't get enough of her uncle's old Nancy...

Connor is 24, brilliant, broken, and out of control. He’s the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal. Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the...

A sunlit coastline. A wandering heart. And a choice that could change everything. Irish nurse Eileen MacCullagh has built her life on precision, postgraduate studies, a coveted executive role and a future mapped in careful increments. She is...

Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. You were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? If you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it – and don’t go back. Not for 15 years. Then Nicola Cruickshank – yes, that...

Time heals all wounds. Except blunt force trauma. Vivian Slade is a cautionary tale. The wrong side of 30, she's no longer the life and soul of the party - she's a party of one. But she's determined to turn over a new leaf, even if that means going to...

When the distressing shadows of war fall across Europe, Olivia Brodie watches the man she loves, Captain Spencer Middleton, lead his men proudly to the front, his final words a promise to return. Left behind among the working-class neighbours she...