Rula Lenska

Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. She invites five of her oldest friends to come & join her, & stave off the prospect of old age. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on them, & the isolation of the group is breached.

Alice is a scientist who relies on method, precision & proof. But when her relationship with artist Peter Brown collapses, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, it is time to break away.

Why would someone who had survived a rail crash walk away from the scene and then pretend to be dead? In a story of mesmerising suspense, Amy slowly reveals why she can never return to her home, and why she can't escape the lies she told as a child.

Emma Davey, who loved gemstones & life, was adored by everyone. But her life ends abruptly when someone kicks her to death. Elisabeth, her sister, is haunted by Emma's death & her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession.