Julia Barrie

When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist, she doesn't expect it to help with her chronic insomnia and she doesn't expect to hear herself saying words that mean nothing to her. She is arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words, in connection with the murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she's never heard of!

When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean. Originally published:

When travelling cook Jenny Starling is asked to cater a birthday party for a pair of well-heeled twins, she doesn't expect to find herself in the midst of a shocking murder. However, when she does, she is compelled to uncover the truth.

Caterbury, 1900. Olivia Fratton thinks that if she hears the words 'Isabel's Wedding' one more time she will scream, and no one would blame her. The oldest of the four Fratton siblings, it falls to her to arrange her little sister's wedding, and she struggles to cope with Isabel's demands on their limited budget.

Zara loves her job as a community midwife, but her great regret is that she will never be able to have a child of her own. So when she discovers that her ex-husband's new girlfriend is pregnant she is devastated. She throws her energy into her work and Frosty, the abandoned puppy she adopts. Unfortunately, though Zara has plenty of love to give, sh