Showing results by publisher "Oakhill Publishing Ltd" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ray Greenland is an exemplary family man, a Thames River pilot who guides others to safety, while his wife Lily runs a dating agency, navigating others to happy futures. What none of those around him know, including Lily and their children, is that Ray's life is not his own. An act committed when he was twelve has meant that Ray must live under a false identity for the rest of his life.

Paul Ferris was one of Britain's most feared gangsters for 25 years. Now Ferris reveals for the first time the real inside story of the villains he met and worked with, the common thugs, and big-time players that surrounded him, and the world of violence and fear he lived in every day of his life.

Dublin. Joshua Boyce watches a jewellers as he plans a job; Dixie Payton desperate for cash attempts a mugging; DI Synott calls on a rape suspect, convinced of his guilt; gangland boss Lar MacKendrick is getting back into shape after brothers Jo-Jo's murder. Criminals and police each have their own code, with both sides resorting to desperate measures as a means to an end.

In the last year, Mel Stenning's seven-year-old daughter, Poppy, has had to get used to a new step-father, a new baby, and a new home. During a game of hide and seek, Poppy disappears, and Mel's new husband is suspected of having something to do with it. Mel also discovers that, the day before, the police had accused him of murder.

A newborn baby's abandoned. A five-year-old boy's abducted. A police officer's dead. And Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss thinks she's having a hard time. Struggling to cope after a vicious attack, desperate not to reveal what's happening under the skin, Bev is fighting for survival. But when you barely trust yourself-who can you rely on?

Diving for plunder in the Caribbean, Hector Lynch and his companions are spotted by a Spanish ship. Escaping capture by burning the vessel's sails - an act of piracy - they head for Tortuga, where Hector's wife Maria awaits. He longs for a better life for them both, on the right side of the law. But the crew run into Laurens de Graff - a renowned mercenary captain now in command of a royal French frigate - and after fleeing his clutches, they are cast away on a tiny desert island, Salt Tortuga.

In England in the 1930s, eighteen-year-old Helen Carstairs braves the prejudice of friends and family to marry Heine, a young German photographer who has fled the growing horror of the Nazis. But the storm clouds are gathering in Europe. When fighting breaks out Heine is interned, their small son is evacuated and Helen is left to face the Blitz alone. And the agony of war threatens to divide a family already tormented by conflicting passions of loyalty, shame, betrayal - and love.

But his slice of heaven turns to hell when 14 year old Charlotte, goes missing while walking home from a friend's house. Can he trust DCI Jack Finch and DS helen Wyatt to catch the right man, or should he take matters into his own hands to ensure revenge?

A young boy is hiding for his life having witnessed a murder. Thirty years later, that boy, Jack Renoir, is in the business of dicovering other people's secrets, yet keeping his own. Renoir is forced to confront the horrors of his past in order to ensure a future with the woman he loves.

A new life in Wales has not turned out to be the rural fantasy that social worker Jess imagined when she left London for a simpler, more fulfilling future. And it seems there's no escape from evil - even in such a beautiful landscape.

The rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley has turned sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment. Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick ceremony.

After a psychic predicts that he will commit a murder before his next birthday, Gabriel is compelled to visit the office of Inspector Espinosa and confess to the potential crime. As a south-westerly wind starts up, what seems like paranoia becomes brutal reality. Two violent murders occur, and their only link is the lonely, clever man who sought out Espinosa for help a few days earlier.

The Count and Bonnie played their game of love, lust, and power to the very limits of fantasy. When the fantasy became real, however, and the number of players grew, the sedate town of Rawley was shaken to its very roots: because when you lost the Game, you lost everything.

Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond has been looking forward to a romantic date with her new love, Silvio Angila, including an opening night at the theatre, cocktails, and the night ahead. But when the play's leading lady, Catarina Velosi, fails to appear, Eve learns that she and Silvio share a complicated past. Despatched by his unsavoury friend Alfonso to Catarina's home, Silvio finds a messy scene suggesting abduction - or worse. Eve must fight to clear Silvio's name. But is he innocent?

Ben Spencer is the ambitious young owner of The Blood Partnership, an online property marketing company. He has become heavily involved with the Westlake family - including becoming engaged to beautiful Caitlin Westlake - and now he's beginning to regret it. Then Ben's own family is targeted by the Westlakes. Now he must choose a side and it seems the only way out is death - but whose will it be?

Tom Fletcher has left the police force, and its cold outside. Working as a P.I. in Cambridge, he is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Tom's inquiries begin to spiral into very darker conspiracies. How is an American company involved in an officially-suppressed story from World War II? Where is the US Air Force base that seems to be the key to a centuries-old mystery?

Christmas: a time of peace and goodwill. Oh no it isn't, thinks Detective Paul Banham, called out to a suspicious death at the local theater, right in the middle of the pantomime. Was it an accident - or murder? On the other side of rivalries, grudges and illicit liaisons begin to surface. A second death leaves Banham in no doubt that there's a murderer on the loose - but the panto is sold out and the show must go on.