Clare Corbett

Chris Rankin is a doctor, a specialist in Emergency Medicine at Cheltenham Hospital, but a doctor who also has health problems. A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body. Doctor Rankin is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking...

When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen ? But that woman?s husband died last week. And Jean doesn?t have to be her anymore. There?s a lot Jean hasn?t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares...

In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in Europe who can outride...

Susie Hollins is found dead, the latest victim of the homicidal rapist stalking the local area. Charlie Fox, teacher of self defence, is drawn in to help with the investigation. But then the killer starts taking a very personal interest in Charlie.

Kate Long takes us into the heart of a mixed-up but utterly recognisable family who fight for what they believe in, even if it puts the closest members on opposing sides.

Set in Zimbabwe, 'The Cry of the Go-Away Bird' follows a young girl as she attempts to make sense of her place in the world while her family struggles to stay afloat in the collapsing economy and escalating horror that surrounds them.

Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their love. Originally published: London: Werner Laurie, 1946