Suddenly the peace is shattered when a filthy Chinese youth flings himself into the church and demands sanctuary. Should the Church accede to the request for protection that no longer has legal standing? Or should it hand Tang over to the authorities? Josie supports Tim s decision to protect Tang, but not all the congregation agree, taking their grievances to the Church hierarchy. But Josie's friend and long-term lodger, the Food Standards Agency...

For Karen Friedman's family, bad luck is just the beginning. It starts with her husband Charlie's investments going wrong & the death of a family pet. Then one day Charlie takes the train to work - straight into a lethal terrorist blast.

Badgers Brook once again provides sanctuary for a family in need ? Married life hasn't been easy for Hope Murton - her mother-in-law, Marjorie, is overbearing and critical and Hope's husband, Ralph, refuses to stand up for himself. Eventually Hope persuades him to move out and to set up a new home at Badgers Brook with their small son, Davy. Soon they are beset by tragedy when a road accident leaves Ralph confined to a wheelchair. He takes the only...

Where better for a hitman to retire than in the Lake District, where the air is healthy and the scenery spectacular? And when Jaymith meets attractive young widow, Anya Wilson, he can?t believe his luck.But Jaysmith soon discovers that settling down to the quiet life is not as easy as it seems. His old employers aren?t keen to lose him, his past is always lying in wait, and when Anya introduces him to her family, Jaysmith realizes there?s no way out.He?s...

Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man. She has nothing left to live for ... until she finds her husband's handgun hidden in their house. Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter's death? Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband's secrets. But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn't hers to gamble - she belongs to me.

Life is looking up for Rina Martin, with the expected revival of her television career, but as her happy summer ends, storm clouds are on the horizon . . . Summer in Frantham has been long and lazy. In the Martin Household, change is afoot. Tim is now engaged and preparing to move out, and there is also news of the revival of Rina?s television career. But nothing stays peaceful for long. Old enemies have returned, the skeletal remains of a woman are...

The groundbreaking thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the basis for Steve McQueen's upcoming major motion picture. WIDOWS is a fast-paced heist thriller with an all female cast you won't forget Facing life alone, they turned to crime together A security van heist goes disastrously wrong and three women are left widowed. When Dolly Rawlins discovers her gang boss husband's plans for the failed hijack, an idea starts to form . . . Could she...

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son?s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the...

At the age of 90-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he?s whispered about as the last of the eligible...

The new Sarah Burke mystery - Detective Sarah Burke is called to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street; it looks like a ?home invasion? gone very wrong. There are several dead bodies but the crime scene just doesn?t make sense - until one of the ?dead' victims suddenly escapes and another man is seen running from the house . . . Once again, as well as juggling her complicated home life, Sarah Burke is faced with a ballistics mystery to find...