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How would you feel coming home to find a family living in your house who call you Sarah, tell you your brother's name is Andy, and insist that you should be ashamed of calling the police for help? My name is Rowena Shaw and I've never seen any of them before. They are total strangers. It's Thursday and it's just the beginning.

Richie Stevens and Sandy Smith’s relationship has moved on since Richie asked his secretary to become his partner, both professionally and personally. During their first holiday together in Italy they meet Sophie, a friend of Sandy’s, whose brother Carter Blake, a prominent forensic scientist, is being accused of murdering his fiancée, in spite of the fact that no body has been found. Richie and Sandy agree to help by investigating the case on Sophie’s behalf and with the help of Detective Chief Inspector Norman Freeman, who has recently retired from the Met, they discover a link to ...

‘I don’t know what all the fuss is about. I simply left my handbag on the bus. It could have happened to anyone. After I’d been attacked and nearly killed I began to wonder why I was being targeted. Then I remembered what I’d hidden in the inside pocket of the bag and my past rushed back like a slap in the face.’ WHEN THE SNOW CAME is the fifth novel in the Richie Stevens investigates series. The Weston case has always bothered Richie and when there is a chance to re-open the case he jumps at it. Annie Troughton has a secret, which she is desperate to hide, John Banks fears his ...

Apple Orchard is not everyone’s favourite character in the long running soap opera The Orchards of Bluestone Bay. But, when she is murdered and DCI Norman Freeman’s relative is the chief suspect, Private Investigator Richie Stevens and his assistant Sandy Smith become involved in the investigation. Solving the case amidst a seething cauldron of inflated egos and jealousies involves a shift of emphasis in the existing relationship between Richie and Sandy. But how with this develop and why has Sandy suddenly disappeared?

Richie Stevens, a private investigator together with his PA Sandy Smith, have a new case to solve; their client is odd, everyone thinks so - but Richie prefers to make up his own mind. The story she's told to the police is that her husband Jason Rayner disappeared while they were on a cycling holiday in Devon.

It's Termination Day; the day medical staff decide whether to turn off the life-support system linked to coma patient Gabriel Radford. They are unaware he is suffering from "Locked-In" syndrome and is conscious but unable to respond.

The body of a dancer is found in a flat a stone’s throw away from the house where Mitchell Brooks lives, but it might just as well be a million miles away. Traumatised by events he experienced as a news cameraman Mitch is trapped in his house where every day becomes the same. He spends his days living through the lives of others, his sister, his doctor, and the friends who call to see him, until one day a stranger rings his bell. Afterwards, it seems he can’t avoid being sucked in to the events surrounding the murder until he makes a disturbing discovery.

The inhabitants of Seabeach Close each have a story to tell. Behind these closed doors lives a ruthless and cruel killer. Alongside a massive investigation into the spread of drugs throughout the country, the person responsible for setting up a far reaching drug distribution network, carries on with life, whilst hiding in plain sight. When the police finally make an arrest there is understandably a feeling of relief at the resolution of a successful operation. But this is not the end of the story. Someone is not happy with the result and decides to look further into the outcome.

As the title implies this book involves the completion of a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces are the suspects in a murder case and the reader has to decide who is the final piece in order to discover the identity of the culprit. But nothing is quite what it seems for, as the story unfolds, it soon becomes apparent that the reader is being given assistance to complete the puzzle by … the murderer. The new owner of the house has almost finished clearing out the loft space when he sees the insulation lagging is loose near the eves. As he attempts to replace it he finds a jigsaw puzzle box hidden ...

Taken at the Flood is a story of love, lust, mistrust and murder. The founder of Softcell Computer Softwear systems has everything a man could desire, a beautiful wife who is pregnant with their first child, and an expensive lifestyle. But seeing the girl in Venice, whilst on honeymoon with Evelyn will alter the course of his life.

The day consultant surgeon Beresford Archer arrives home from work to find his wife has disappeared starts a train of events which has its roots in the past. Gradually, the reader discovers what happened on that day and how it changes the lives of the people involved. The Piper Archer case is another for private investigator Richie Stevens and his assistant Sandy Smith to solve. But who is telling the truth and where is the woman who has everything to live for? Join Richie and Sandy to unravel the plot of K.J.Rabane’s latest psychological thriller – WHAT HAPPENED TO PIPER ARCHER.

Successful artist Olwen Pritchard returns to the village where she grew up. and where her family home has recently been sold following the death of her parents. Something is compelling her to make this journey where the ghosts of her childhood take shape guided by her eight-year-old alter ego. Olwen's life, growing up in the nineteen fifties in a small welsh village, is examined through the eyes of the child during the year following her eighth birthday. Tentacles from the past reach into the present as alongside the story of the child, are the older woman’s nostalgic and poignant ...

Alexandra Davenport saw a ghost when she was a child but no one believed her. They said it was understandable - her parents had died in a car accident - she'd recently attended her uncle's funeral - Marshlands house on the outskirts of Leahampton was a house that encouraged the mind to see apparitions. She was living and working in the village of Saltbank when she took a phone call from her cousin Harry - he was worried about his mother - her aunt Jess - she'd started to insist that she was seeing her dead husband. Chief Inspector Carl Hoyland remembers the case partly because of his his ...

Can you imagine what it feels like to be me? No, of course not. You can recognise yourself in a mirror, know your relatives and friends as soon as you see them and remember them when you see them again. My name is Rosie Hayes, I’m thirty-six and, after an accident when I was eight, I’ve suffered with prosopagnosia (face blindness). I might be your best friend but I won’t recognise you if I see you again. I might be your sister but the same applies - I won’t even recognise your voice, let alone your face. When on a walk with my dog Skipper, I’ve seen a murder being committed but ...