Bøger udgivet af Allison & Busby

Jim Hawkes moves to the Devonshire countryside for some much needed tranquility. But beset by strange occurrences, and haunted by the figure of a little girl, peace is slipping from his grasp.

Bradecote and Catchpoll face the bitter winter of 1144 while on the trail of a renegade who kills for pleasure.

Juno Browne meets James Westershall, owner of Moorworthy Chase, a large family estate. She is invited, along with her friends from Old Nick's, to bring along their goods for sale at a garden fete. The day takes a turn for the worst when a man is found dead in the woods, and whilst the police investigate, Juno has a theory of her own.

Persimmon `Simmy' Brown is reminded that life in the Lake District is far from relaxing when her fiance Chris discovers the body of his friend brutally strangled in Grasmere. As old grudges against the dead man are revealed, and with Chris's increasingly odd behaviour, Simmy begins to wonder if he is more involved in the murder than he is saying.

Seeking a quiet spot to write his memoirs, Laurent de Rodergues secludes himself in Saint-Chartier, a village in the heart of France. But when millionaire Carlos decides to give the town's medieval chateau a costly and controversial makeover, Laurent's peace is shattered by murder, resentment and intrigue.

Wiltshire, 1910. Threatened with a forced marriage, Mattie Willitt flees home in search of a better life. She is soon lost and at the mercy of the elements - until her life is saved by a widower called Jacob. But when Mattie's stepfather discovers her whereabouts, she must face her fears and stand up to those who threaten her future happiness.

When archaeologists unearth a body in the escape tunnel of an Ely POW camp, Philip Dryden's interest is peaked. Why was the man crawling into the camp, and not out.?

Trying to forget the tragedies of the Great War, Deborah Claremont focuses upon her staff agency. But social unrest and the attentions of two very different men threaten her peace.

Porter and Styles investigate the disappearance of a little girl, Libby. The discovery of multiple bodies makes the case urgent and it seems that no one, not even Libby's family, can be trusted.

Autumn 1917. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are dispatched from Scotland Yard to investigate the death of young woman at a luxurious hotel. Questions abound: who is she? Who poisoned her? And where is the original occupant of the room? They must solve the mystery as quickly as possible, before the reputation of the hotel is damaged beyond repair.

No one could have known that the Midwestern town of Ambient would be changed forever by the arrival of young misfit Gabriel Carpenter. But his short time among them touches the entire community and his death revives the local legend of the river angel. The line between the possible and impossible blurs and everyone's fragile hopes are exposed.

Rosalind's husband, Paul, forces her to move from Australia to England, but then he's called away to deal with a crisis in Singapore and she's left to settle into a new country on her own.

Southampton 1920. Phoebe Collins rose to the challenge of running the family fruit and veg stall when her father did not return from the front. However, when Phoebe witnesses something terrible, she will need all her strength to face the trials ahead and the fear that her loved ones may come to harm.

As England teeters on the brink of civil war, Thomas Chayne has an opportunity to prove his worth by rallying a troop of royalists to defend Oxford from the escalating violence. But he soon faces an impossible choice between honouring his family and his loyalty to the crown ...

Christmas is approaching, but with Claire's ex stalking her and Luke's difficulties with his teenage daughter, can it be a merry Christmas after all?

Despite warnings to the contrary, Juno Browne ventures into the shady world of antiques dealing when she takes on a new client, Old Nick. When Nick is found dead, Juno begins her own investigation, and she must piece the puzzle together before she becomes the next victim.

Cornwall 1845. What caused the death of a tattooed stranger found on Morwenstow beach clutching a key? Is he a victim of deliberate wrecking, lured by false lights? Or are tales of savage mermaids true?

When Max Brennan's estranged father and then his own girlfriend go missing in quick succession, he turns to his old friend Detective Jake Porter for help. When their main suspect turns up dead, alongside a list of other targets, Porter and his partner Nick Styles must race to catch the killer before another victim is claimed.

Thea Slocombe is tired of having to entertain Drew's children through the long summer holiday while he works, so keenly accepts a commission to watch over a house in Barnsley. However, her return to house-sitting is far from relaxing as on her first night she finds a fugitive woman hiding among some bushes...

Cass Lynch is shocked to discover that the new third officer for her latest voyage through the Shetland Isles is a man she thought had drowned years ago. She also has an odd feeling about some of the new trainees and as her distrust deepens, people go missing and another is found dead. Cass must out-manoeuvre the killer - or become the next victim.

After the wars in Restoration Europe and the death of his wife, Christopher Morgan tries to start afresh, buying a pub in the West Country. His new life is torn apart when his young son Abel is kidnapped and sold. From the shores of Constantinople to the western American isles, Christopher will sail far and wide to search for his missing son.

1861, East Anglia. When universally-admired Swarbrick, the man working to unify East Anglia's tangle of railway networks, is killed by a robber in a first-class carriage, Inspector Colbeck is brought in from London. But is this the act of a bungling burglar, a business rival, a disgruntled son, or a jealous lover?

Thea is ready for a relaxing if rather boring two weeks, with phone calls to new boyfriend Drew Slocombe the highlight of her days. Until, that is, a dead body is discovered in a nearby quarry...

When Thea Osbourne agrees to house sit for Oliver Meadows as a favor to her mother, she expects a few days peace and quiet. But as usual, Thea quickly finds herself at the center of a dark mystery when she discovers a dead body in the gardens of the house.

Ethelred and Elsie embark on a hunt to find two invaluable golden statues, supposedly hidden among the religious houses of Sussex.

1894. When a man is found dead in a gentlemen's convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside, Daniel Wilson is called in to solve the mystery, bringing archaeologist Abigail Fenton with him. The pair face a race against time to salvage the reputation of the museum and catch a murderer desperate for revenge.

1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found with a bullet hole between his eyes. Whilst officially ruled as suicide, private inquiry agent Daniel Wilson, who investigated the case of Jack the Ripper, is a natural choice to discreetly explore the situation, ably assisted by his partner, Abigail Fenton.

1862. Growing up in the small seaside town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight, free-spirited Eveline Stanhope feels trapped by the weight of expectation from her well-to-do family. She becomes closely involved with the railway and forms a growing attachment to engineer Thomas Armitage.

The isolated and somewhat unsettling village of Snowshill has Thea on edge as soon as she arrives, and Hyacinth House - her new, rather cluttered house-sitting assignment - does nothing to dispel such feelings. Soon enough, her intuition in this case proves to be right, and once again Thea becomes entangled in another mystery.

Thea Osborne is perhaps over-optimistic about the summertime and her latest assignment house-sitting for reptile breeder Harriet Young. The region's charms prove deceptive, as Thea soon finds that Harriet's beloved geckoes are not the only cold-blooded creatures at large in Cranham.