Some secrets can haunt a whole lifetime. In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour - a reclusive creature who never opens the door to anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no way of knowing that the woman next door, Madeleine Delaney is driven by a dangerous memory that for over twenty years has controlled her meagre existence ? Madeleine?s...

When retired TV evangelist Joy Miller receives a package in the mail containing graphic photographs of three people she knew long ago - all brutally murdered - she guesses immediately who it's from: a ghost from her past, a dangerous individual who knows far too much about the skeletons in Joy's closet.

All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the 1930s, Grant McAllister, a mathematics professor turned author, worked them out, hiding their secrets in a book of crime stories. Then Grant disappeared. Thirty years later, ambitious editor Julia Hart arrives on a secluded island. She intends to republish these mysteries and she?s finally tracked Grant down. But there?s something curious about his seven murderous tales. The stories? secrets...