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The series is about a journalist by the name of Carmen Maronii who uncovers a family history of secrets, murder and cover up.
Some people find it hard to trust Robin Allbeury, a wealthy lawyer and an expert on marital secrets, who runs an unorthodox sideline helping troubled wives escape from their abusive marriages. For some women, help comes too late. Women like Lynne Bolsover, wife and mother of two, whose battered body lies beneath sacking on a Hertfordshire allotment. A victim of a brutish husband, or so it would seem ... 'Genuinely scary ... touches of sheer horror ... a real page-turner' Daily Telegraph
On the face of it, the double murder of Arnold and Marie Robbins looks just like another brutal Miami Beach killing - except that Cathy, their daughter, is lying between them. She is blood-soaked and in deep shock, but alive. Has she survived only to face murder charges?
Alex Levin hasn't met anyone as passionate about cleaning as Frankie Barnes. She's found the perfect career to suit her hygiene obsession. But unbeknown to her new employer, Frankie suffers from other compulsions and the greatest is the compulsion to have. All Frankie wants is a home as lovely as the ones she cleans. She'll do anything to achieve her aim. But her first attempt has gone horribly wrong, and her dream house loses its shine when she thinks about the two bodies rotting in the cellar. Next time Frankie intends to be more careful - and Alex's home is the prettiest cottage Frankie's ever laid eyes on ...
Held captive in a dark room in New York State, a young woman is at the mercy of a killer. As guide-dog trainer Joanna finds herself fighting her attraction to blind sculptor Jack Donovan she also begins to feel dangerously unwelcome. Meanwhile, another object of beauty is being stalked ... 'Hilary Norman specialises in creepy thrillers and this one is just as gripping as her previous work' Woman's Own
From the day he sets foot in the Hampstead house, Matthew Gardner realises that life with his new wife, Caroline, is going to be rougher than he'd hoped. Two of her three teenage daughters, Flic and Imogen - charming to him in public - actually loathe him. If only their mother could see Matthew through their eyes, the girls feel, life would be so much easier. And the two girls are utterly determined to get rid of their stepfather, and chillingly ruthless in their methods. 'A compulsive and gripping tale with a high body count and lots of intrigue' Bookseller
The series ensures comprehensive coverage coverage of the Key Stage 3 Curriculum requirements through top quality, carefully researched materials. The books are particularly suitable for pupils of both average and higher ability, and are written by practising teachers, using activities based on current Key Stage 3 teaching practice. They are presented in a clear, easy-to-follow format. Selected topics can be explored in greater detail using Outline Studies (with narrative text) and Depth Studies (with a range of sources). The series provides complete support for pupils and teachers alike with each full-colour Pupils' Book supported by a fully integrated Teachers' Resource Guide. Teachers will save time in lesson preparation, as sections of the book are suitable for photocopying.
There's something chillingly familiar about what's happening to Nick Miller. He was so sure he'd left the past - and Holly Bourne - behind. Holly, pure delight to everyone else, but Nick's girlfriend-from-hell. Except that all that was over years ago. Holly's happily married now and thousands of miles away, and Nick's wife, Nina, is expecting their first child. This can't have anything to do with Holly. Yet the shocks have only just begun for Nick and Nina, in a terrifying novel of obsessive love, and a young couple's fight to escape its deadly stranglehold ... 'A beautifully crafted tale that builds to a dramatic climax' Bookseller
Though they live fulfilling, independent lives in three different countries, Olivia Segal, Jamie Arias and Annie Aldrich Thomas remain bound to each other by a past tragedy - and by their pact always to be there for each other at times of great need. In a London vault lies a story waiting to be read; a tale of evil more than fifty years old, a link with the past and a present danger more terrifying than anything the friends could have dreamed up in their wildest nightmares.
Will history repeat itself? Moving from a London deep in the terror of the Blitz to the seemingly safer London of 2019, two women have to fight for their lives to survive a ruthless killer in this dual timeline psychological thriller that will make your hair stand on end! London, 1941. Amongst the air-raid sirens and horrors of bombings, artist Harriet Yorke manages Calla House: a small community of people from different backgrounds – but good friends who pull together in times of crisis. Like most Londoners contending with the Blitz, Harriet has grown used to withstanding danger, but when she goes on a late-evening stroll with her Cairn Terrier, George, and finds herself face to face with...