‘A delicious new voice in crime writing... Excellent on the English aristocracy and written in a fine wry style.’ Daily Mail‘Absorbing, charming and funny.’ Antonia FraserAgatha Christie meets Downton Abbey in this delightful new series introducing pet portraitist and amateur super-sleuth, Susie MahlIn the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Rich landowner Alexander, 9th Earl of Greengrass is caught...

The clock is ticking and the Lakes are deep...Think the Lake District is a lovely place to visit? Think again. A Psychological & Chilling Thriller set in and around the fictional town of Kirkdale in Cumbria. One by one the young women of Kirkdale are being found grotesquely murdered, with no clues as to why.Lying between the great lake Kirkwater and the base of Kirkby Pike, although beautiful, Kirkdale isn't exactly the most exciting place on the planet. But after young rep...

In May 2021, a skeleton is dug up in the grounds of Kirkdale girls’ school Clayton House, resulting in DCI Harry Longbridge reopening three cold cases from the 90s and uncovering far more than he bargained for.At the same time, ex GP and high security patient Charlotte Peterson is in a coma in Bassetlaw hospital, and it was an entrusted delegate who’d failed to complete Charlotte’s kill list who put her there. Unconscious and vulnerable, Charlotte drifts back to her years at Clayto...

Pet portraitist Susie Mahl has to use all her artistic know-how to get to the bottom of a fiendish Scottish mysteryPraise for the Highland Mysteries:‘A delicious new voice in crime writing... Excellent on the English aristocracy and written in a fine wry style.’ Daily Mail‘This is a well paced and exciting read. More please!’ Alexander McCall Smith‘Absorbing, charming and fu...

Flirtatious American blonde Miss Hailey Duke should never have accepted a summer weekend invitation to Fontaburn Hall. But when the Honourable Archibald Cooke Wellingham's house party are woken, in the early hours of Sunday morning, it's too late: Miss Duke's blood is on their hands. With the aid of Detective Chief Inspector Reynolds, Sergeant Ayari and loyal friend Dr Toby Cropper, Susie Mahl, on a timely commission drawing six racehorses nearby, seizes the opportunity to play detective f...

Do you feel stuck in life? Are you tired of the challenges that life gives you? Do you want to create a brighter future for you and your family?In this brutally honest and sometimes heart-wrenching book, Ali Carter takes you through his personal journey from chef to police officer, to family mediator and ultimately, founder of a tech start-up.Improving your life and making significant changes for the better is challenging - especially if you have complex childhood issues, rea...

‘This is a well paced and exciting read. More please!’ Alexander McCall Smith‘It's a rare talent that creates a work that is both whip smart, fast paced and at the same time gloriously genteel. Carter is that talent.’ Amanda ProwseThe second Susie Mahl Mystery. If only death came with a warning…Flirtatious American blonde, Miss Hailey Dune, should never have accepted a summer weekend invitation to Fontaburn Hall. Bu...

In the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Wealthy landowner Alexander, Earl of Greengrass is caught with his trousers down in the village graveyard before meeting a gruesome end. Luckily Susie Mahl happens to be on hand. With her artist's eye for detail and her curious nature she is soon on the scent of the murderer…

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak, artist and pet portraitist Susie Mahl hopes her brief sojourn as an art tutor at a Scottish country house will prove a distraction. But Susie soon realises she has bigger problems than teaching her eclectic mix of students to draw a Highland cow. Beneath the beautiful landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and the grandeur of the Auchen Laggan Tosh estate lie hidden secrets. Can Susie work out what exactly is going on ...

I know it in my ancient water, that something will happen today...Today is the 75th birthday of identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora. And on this day their story begins, a richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. It is in fact, the 23rd April, Shakespeare’s birthday and as Dora’s story unfurls, over the course of a whole century, it is populated with as many sets of twins, mistaken identities and unlikely c...

Though children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and sp...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Miriam sat beside her mother and held her hand.“Don’t go, Mom. Please... please don’t leave me alone. I don’t have anyone else.”In that moment, she needed her mother more than ever. She wanted to climb into bed and rest her head in her mother’s lap, maybe for the last time. She felt the urge to cry out loud, to let the pain escape. But more than anything, she longed for a comforting hand on her back while she cried.Where was t...