Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when h...

When fifteen-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep h...

The news rocked the town. A woman's body found in a boathouse. And the woman's last known compani...

Olivia Harland is enjoying her stay with her aunt and uncle in the Western Hills fifteen miles fr...

Gracie Lindsay's return to Levenford arouses mixed feelings: to her uncle Daniel she is the daugh...

'Majestic' - The Washington Post'Breathtaking' - The Boston Globe

When Mr Harrington Brande moves himself and his precious young son Nicholas to a grand house in t...

Joseph Miller is a proud man, so when his daughter, Sarah, becomes lady's maid to Lady Caroline u...

Hardly anyone attends St Martin's Church, Kengrave Square, in West London, and it's very nearly f...

It's high summer in Oxford. The university vacation has just begun. The eight governors of the Mo...

It's action all the way in this classic and witty whodunit centred round the fate of the 19th cen...

Originally published in 1945, The Green Years is one of A J Cronin's best-loved novels. It tells ...

In 1880 the meeting place of international royalty and the twilight world of the demi-monde is th...

Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through. In pre-First World War Bradford, Rose's mate...

'But I don't hate Chung King!' Gianetta cried passionately. 'I love it. I love the temples and pa...

Victor Holyoak made his millions by selling state-of-the-art security systems. In the end, even t...

It began with the Night News Editor of the Record, in a foul temper, sending Hugh Curtis out on a...

Roderick Copper (67), retired Major, and Benny Gold (70), London cabbie, apply on the same mornin...

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

'Caroline knows best.'Caroline's mother ran away from her father when Caroline was four years old...

Could the take-over of Rigley's Patent Footbalm by the giant American Hutstacker Chemical Corpora...

Richmal Crompton's adult novels are an absolute delight and every bit as charming as her beloved ...

The life of Lewis Eliot - documented across eleven novels with C. P. Snow's distinctive blend of ...

Frost at Morning is the heart-breaking story of four young children who, deserted by their parent...

Murder and robbery on the high seas ... When rumours of a jewel raid on a luxury yacht in the Eng...

In 1588 the Spanish Armada had been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan ...

The murder of a deputy headmaster's wife on the night of the Sesquicentennial Ball at a minor-lea...

It is 1649. As the English soldiers trample the Irish homesteads, leaving behind them a trail of ...

Although best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett was...

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children...

Adventures in Two Worlds - an autobiographical novel by A J Cronin, creator of television's Dr Fi...

Ever since the death of her husband, Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage, high up ...

Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precisi...

Roger Matthews is the Vicar of picturesque village, Little Stanton. He happily tends to his frien...

The disappearance from school of two apparently unconnected teenagers worries DC Charlie Peace, u...

Miranda Taylor drowns in Saligo Bay. Was it an accident - or suicide - or murder? Who is the myst...

The Keys of the Kingdom is the unforgettable story of the Reverend Francis Chisholm and his fight...

Sir Francis Chichester, adventurer, entrepreneur, aviation expert and record breaking sailor, is ...

Can you ever trust anyone, however much you care about them?Things aren't always what they seem ....

The Dog at Clambercrown takes its name from a mysterious pub - seductive and frightening, never v...

Once again, Kate Fansler tries to take a break from her full time career as a literature professo...

When Viola learned of her husband Humphrey's affair, it seemed obvious that she must divorce him ...

From boyhood to manhood big, gentle Mico had but two passions in life - the sea, and a young girl...

A Scandal In Belgravia is a story of murder; it is also a penetrating analysis of a decaying soci...

Life hadn't held much except the bottle for Robert Farran in the months since his beloved wife ha...

'He'd waited for her outside her flat that night, but Lloyd had come home with her, and he'd had ...

Raised in a strict Puritan household, Charmian Radley is betrothed to her cousin Joshua Mason. Bu...

When Roger Rorch, the talented chairman of the London-based advertising agency RTB, supposedly co...