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Bestselling romance novelist Delia Day is headlining the annual Appledore book festival in North Devon. When her scriptwriter colleague James Harding drops dead during their panel discussion, DCI David Vogel must discover if there's more to the untimely death than natural causes before more people get hurt - or worse, killed ...

A man lies dead on his kitchen floor, his body punctured by multiple stab wounds. Beside him sits his silent, traumatised wife. DCI David Vogel reckons he's seen it all before - an abused wife snaps after years of suffering within a deeply tormented marriage - but he comes to realize that nothing about this case is as straightforward as it seems.

Dr Sandy Jones politely brushes-off her old friend Connie Pike when she unexpectedly calls. A few days later, Connie is killed in an explosion at her laboratory. Consumed by guilt, Jones heads to New Jersey, determined to find out the truth behind Connie's death - and exactly what Connie had been trying to tell her in that last anxious phone call.

The fourth and most compelling novel from one of the most exciting new crime writers to emerge in recent years, Fanatical love, dangerous obsession and a terrible deadly secret. Unexplained events on the island put Rose's life in danger - but throw her into the path of Robin Davey, charismatic owner of the island.

If you can't trust your family, where do you turn . . . Joyce Mildmay's life is torn apart when her husband Charlie is killed in a tragic yachting accident. Though financially secure, Joyce is left to raise their three children by herself within Tarrant Park, a secluded gated development set in the rural countryside outside of Bristol. Six months later a mysterious letter arrives on her doorstep which turns her shattered world upside down. The letter is from Charlie, delivered belatedly in the event of his death, and contains a sinister warning that Joyce's father, Henry Tanner, and the family business is not as it seems. For their children to be safe, her husband pleas, she must leave their home and never look back. Confused and alarmed by this message from beyond the grave, Joyce decides instead to stay and unearth the truth. But what she learns reveals a trail of intrigue and deception that stretches back through the years. It seems that death is just the beginning. . .

Journalist Joyce Carter is murdered in her Devon cottage, a few miles from Richard's country home and forensics implicate Richard in the killing. Also among the suspects are Joyce's jealous, druggy toyboy lover and Richard's own wife, the beautiful, icy Amanda, who suspects her husband of having an affair with Joyce.

A chance DNA test proves without doubt what DS Mike Fielding has always known - that the man tried for the barbaric murder of local Devon girl Angela Philips twenty years before, the man who walked free, was the Beast of Dartmoor.

A sexually charged crime novel moving between Bristol and the West Country, as scandal rocks the heart of a small village community. Previous novels by this author include "Cruelty of Morning" and "A Fancy to Kill For".

John Kelly, once a reporter, always a maverick, has become embroiled in the mystery surrounding a series of disturbing deaths at a tough army training base in the heart of Dartmoor.

In 1967 young Jennifer Stone discovers the corpse of an unidentified young woman in the sea. The next day a local girl disappears; she never reappears and the murder remains unsolved. Twenty years later Jennifer, now a successful newspaper reporter, has to uncover the secrets of the murders.

'A very classy crime yarn' Manchester Evening NewsAlthough to all appearances Suzanne and Carl Peters live an idyllic life in pretty St Ives, beneath the veneer of domestic bliss lurks a dark secret which threatens to destroy everything they hold dear.

Will the secrets of a dark night ever be revealed? When rock idol Scott Silver is found murdered, the prime suspect lies dead next to him. For Silver's killer broke into his mansion home on the South Devon coast and it appears that the rock star's mesmerising widow Angel killed the intruder in self defence.