'Brilliant twisty dark farce' ERIN KELLY'A nail bitingly tense and original book' SHARON BOLTON'Compulsive, horrifying and irresistibly funny' VAL MCDERMIDShortly after Christmas, a message arrives at Sophie's house, scrawled across her own round robin newsletter: HE'S GOING TO LEAVE YOU. LET'S SEE HOW SMUG YOU ARE THEN, YOU STUPID BITCH. Perhaps she should ignore it, but she ignored the last one. And the one before that. Now it's time to take action.But whe...

A Scotland Yard detective in war-weary London investigates a doctor's death in a thriller by the author of The Innocent Spy: "An exceptional talent." —Laura Lippman, New York Times– bestselling author of Lady in the LakeSummer, 1944. After almost five years of conflict, London's inhabitants are exhausted. DI Ted Stratton is no exception, but he cannot help being drawn in by his latest case. Called to inv...

A sudden death exposes three generations of family secrets in this gripping, atmospheric psychological thriller for fans of Clare Mackintosh, Belinda Bauer and B A Paris.Janice Keaton is living a quiet, easy life when a longed-for reunion with the daughter she gave up for adoption several decades earlier drags her into a lethal confrontation with her past.Did her brother, Dan, die a natural death? Is Joe, her former lover, really an acid casualty, or was th...

An outstanding historical crime thriller based on real-life events: the framing of Timothy Evans for murders committed by notorious serial killer John Christie.It is winter, 1950 in a dingy part of London. John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter, and for DI Ted Stratton of West End Central, it promises to be a straightforward case. When Davies recants, blaming respectable neighbour Norman Backhouse for the crimes, nobody, including Stratton, ...

Shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original and the CWA Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction.London, 1955. Three bodies are found in a house - but when the police search for the murder weapon, vital evidence is destroyed. One of the victims is former society beauty Georgina Gresham, prime suspect in the notorious murder of her husband, James, almost thirty years earlier. Beside her lie the bodies of her brother Edmund and housekeeper Ad...

London, November, 1956.DI Ted Stratton is tasked with investigating the murder of Jeremy Lloyd, a strange young man with a taste for esoteric religion. Stratton's enquiries lead him to Suffolk, where the mysterious Mr Roth has founded a Foundation for Spiritual Understanding.Apparently Lloyd had believed himself marked out for great things. But at the Foundation, Stratton meets twelve-year-old Michael who is proclaimed as the next incarnation in a long line of spiritual lea...

Winner of the Crime Writers of America Historical AwardLondon , June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she disc...

"A crime narrative of great authority . . . extremely evocative" from the award-winning author of A Willing Victim ( Financial Times).This is the fifth volume in the award-winning Inspector Ted Stratton series, which opened during the London Blitz (with The Innocent Spy) and has now landed in the rainy summer of 1958. Detective Inspector Stratton is investigating the death of a rent collector—never a popular personage—in Notting Hill, a di...

Inspector Ted Stratton returns in a mystery based on real events—from the award-winning author of An Empty Death. "An exceptional talent." —Laura LippmanIt's 1950s London. Beautiful Diana Calthrop, last seen breaking hearts in Laura Wilson's The Innocent Spy as an icily daring MI5 operative in the finest couture, is looking a little tarnished, her famously catastrophic taste in men catching up at last. On the plus side, she has once again bumped in...

This incredibly easy-to-follow diet allows you to eat five meals a day without restricting calories, and create the best health you've ever had! Written by ultra-marathoner and health coach Laura Wilson, who has used these principles to turn her own health around, this plant-based diet is grounded in solid science.Simple, satisfying, sustainable, super-healthy, and systematized, The Alkaline 5 Diet harnesses the healing power of alkaline foods, providing you with all the n...

Wen die Gesellschaft nicht versteht, den hasst sie: Der packende Spannungsroman »Ein reines Herz« von Laura Wilson jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Seine tragische Vergangenheit zerbrach ihn - nun droht sie, ihn unschuldig ins Gefängnis zu bringen ... Gerald Haxton ist seit seiner Kindheit schwer traumatisiert: Er musste nicht nur die Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs überleben, sondern auch den gewaltsamen Tod seiner Adoptivschwester Vera. Nun, Jahrzehnte später, begegnet Gerald der kleinen M...

Der erschütternde Mord an einer vermeintlich Toten: Der packende Thriller »Kehre nicht zurück« von Laura Wilson jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Sie war noch ein Kind, als ihre Mutter entführt wurde – jetzt muss sie endlich herausfinden, was damals wirklich geschah … Dodies Mutter, die Millionärin Susan Blackstock, ist vor zwanzig Jahren verschwunden und für tot erklärt worden. Dodie hat schweren Herzens ihren Frieden damit gemacht – bis nun, viele Jahre später, die Leiche ihrer Mutter gefund...