Margaret Yorke

No one would have been surprised if old Mrs. Ludlow were murdered, but when her housekeeper is the one who turns up dead, everyone assumes that the lethal drugs were intended for Mrs Ludlow...

When her goddaughter is arrested, Isabel Vernon is startled to discover that the child of her memory has become an overweight, shaven-headed environmentalist....

Peaceful Mickleburgh is the perfect English market town - or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed façade, having successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations....

For years Hermione has been oppressed by her husband, Walter. Before they married, he had seemed loving and protective. Now he was demanding and brutal....

After serving ten years of a life sentence for murder, Stephen Dawes was released on licence to start a new life....

Following retirement, Marigold Darwin returns to her home village determined to purchase a house....

When Louise Vaughn disappears on her way home from choir practice in the village of Feringham, her parents and their dear friend Norah are devastated....

Bicklebury is a small village of some 300 inhabitants, a church and a pub, but no shop, no school and certainly no crime - until two ex-cons decide it is the ideal location to pull a robbery....

Philip Winter had been accused of rape. He knew he was innocent, a victim of his accuser’s paranoia when he had rejected her advances....

Robbie is a quiet man, passive and unassuming. He is the sort of man who is taken for granted by the people around him, passed by for promotions and bossed around by his wife....

Daniel and Jennifer had bought a house together, and their friends assumed they would eventually marry....

The day that Jerry Hunt met Charlotte Frost was the day he decided to go straight....

When Martin Trent rings home to announce his return from an assignment as a tour guide in Venice, Susan is filled with fear....

When journalist Andrew Sherwood witnesses an assault on a woman, he is curious to find out more about her....

Penelope was to spend the first Christmas after her marriage at the country home of her great aunt Hermione, where she had lived as a child after the death of her parents....

An idyllic cruise, a longed-for holiday to the Greek islands, a carefully planed school reunion....

Major Johnson retires and sets out to enjoy village life. But beneath the surface of a quiet village, the paths of thieves and lovers, murderers and innocents, converge....