Bøker av Andrea Hicks

The Christmas trees in Knightsbridge sparkle with festive joy, and there's nothing more fun than Christmas cocktail parties to ring in the new year of 1922.Camille Divine, known as Lady Camille Divine, has decorated her little house in Birdcage Mews with glistening decorations and a beautiful Christmas tree, but she has more on her mind than the festive season. Women are disappearing off the street, and Lady Phoebe Carruthers has begged Camille to investigate when her personal maid goes missing. Something links the women who have vanished, and when a body is discovered, Camille is determined to find out what the connection is before another woman is murdered.A Christmas Cozy novel in the 99 Nightingale Lane Publishing series, Camille Divine Murder Mysteries

London 1922. The Summer Ball is all arranged. Camille Divine has received her invitation to Antonella Toignton's home in Chelsea, the one she inherited from her father, where the Summer Ball will be held. At first, Camille is loath to attend after promising herself a rest after her last investigation, but the envelope in which the invitation came also holds a letter from Antonella, one of Camille's closest friends, begging her to attend the Summer Ball as she needs to speak with her urgently about some strange happenings at her new home.Antonella sounds frightened, which surprises Camille as her friend is not easily spooked. Camille sighs, knowing she doesn't have the willpower to resist a mystery, and if her friend needs her help she will never refuse.With the mid-summer temperatures reaching boiling point, and the demise of a guest at the Ball, Camille realises there's a murderer amongst the invitees. Has Antonella requested the presence of a killer at the Summer Ball? And why do the family members and friends seem to suspect one another?MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR is the second in the Camille Divine Mysteries series, a story of intrigue, strange goings-on...and murder!The Camille Divine Mysteries Series will appeal to fans of Agatha Christie, Downton Abbey, and the contemporary series, Midsomer Murders.

LONDON 1889When her soulmate, Jonathan August-Trelawney jilts her at the altar, Lily Pond is determined to live life on her own terms. Her friends and acquaintances aren't afraid of giving her their opinions. They encourage her to find someone else to marry and...swiftly. Your reputation they said. Whatever will become of it?Lily has other ideas.Apart from trying to discover what had discouraged Jonathan from turning up at the church, she is determined to help the children of the rookeries; the squalor-riven streets that are a blight on England's great capital city. Fitzrovia is a stone's throw from her home on Harley Street and she resolves to redress the balance.The fog-bound alleyways, courtyards, narrow streets and doss houses where disadvantaged children play, are the stamping grounds of criminal gangs who think nothing of murdering someone for a penny. Learning of an illegal trade in Egyptian artefacts, Lily finds an unusual way to infiltrate the slums of St Giles. Her friend, Chief Detective Jeremiah Stride learns of her plan and encourages her to solve an unusual crime spreading its tentacles through the rookeries. Will those in the poverty-stricken East End of London be convinced by her subterfuge? Or will they decide she is a spy in their midst and carry out an East End punishment?A Victorian cozy mystery from the writer of CAMILLE DIVINE MURDER MYSTERIES, 99 NIGHTINGALE LANE, and MRS COYLE'S COOKBOOK.If you love WHITECHAPEL, RIPPER STREET, CARNIVAL STREET, and historical mysteries, you'll love the LILY POND VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERIES

Have you ever fallen in love with someone... because you just knew?Tom Alexander has no memory of his life at House in the Hills orphanage on the outskirts of Sarajevo, or of his birth parents, the ones whose faces he wants to see, but doesn't remember. When he receives a letter from ChildAbroad, the agency that arranged his adoption in 1994, he is offered the opportunity to search for the boy he once was, Andreij Kurik-if he returns to Sarajevo. With Sulio Divjak, the driver and interpreter Tom befriends, he searches the derelict orphanage and uncovers a faded photograph in Andreij's file of a girl wearing a red scarf.She looks like Ellie; the girl Tom fell in love with at first sight in a café in Regent's Park. Devastated when he realises what it could mean, Tom goes back to London to get some answers. Accompanied by Ellie he returns to Sarajevo to find his birth parents, only to receive news that destroys everything he thought he knew about Tom Alexander-and Andreij Kurik.From the author of The Other Boy, shortlisted for the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller

London, Christmas 1914Eighteen-year-old Carrie Dobbs has a secret. When her parents discover what she's so desperately trying to hide, Carrie's mother, Florrie takes matters into her own hands and arranges a marriage with Arnold Bateman to get Carrie out of Whitechapel and away from the gossips. He is a man Carrie could never love, the opposite of Johan, the young man she adores. Arnold has been posted to India and expects her to go with him and be the wife he needs to further his promotion and position in the army. India is a country she only knows from an atlas and she is terrified she will never see her family and her beloved best friend, Pearl again. Feeling she has no choice, she travels to India with a heavy heart, wondering if she will ever return to the place she calls home. India is a mystery to her, but this strange and vibrant country gets under her skin, and when someone she admires from afar is kind to her, Carrie wonders if she will find love again.