Virginia Woolf's haunting first novel follows Mr and Mrs Ambrose and their young niece on a sea voyage from London to South America.

Aunt Margaret, surrogate mother to Saskia for 17 years, waves goodbye to her niece, who is off to Canada for a year. Margaret decides to kick up her heels and have some fun, and takes a lover for a year as part of the enterprise.

Detective Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying case of his career Alex Cross?s niece, Naomi, is missing. Cross fears the disappearance could be linked to a string of recent abductions and murders. Two brilliant and twisted killers, operating on opposite sides of the country, are collaborating and competing, encouraging each other to perpetrate increasingly horrific crimes. Cross must hunt down these two brutal masterminds -...

An opportunity presents itself when T. Paterson Frisby, for whom Berry Conway works as a secretary, is looking for a chaperone for his American niece, Ann Moon. Berry sets it up, hoping for a commission.

Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North pole and vanishes into the icy landscape. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades. 100 years later Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the family house and makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance.

Lexi and her husband Sam have put their heart and soul into renovating No. 3 Cashel Square. Lexi's mother thinks it's high time they had a baby, but Lexi's thriving art gallery keeps her more than busy. Plus her headstrong niece Amelie seems to have practically moved in. And then, just as summer arrives, a mysterious stranger knocks on the door. Kathleen Williams has come from America, longing to see the house in Cashel Square where she was born,...

Dulcie Mainwaring's friend Viola is besotted by Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if she helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself is falling, just a little, for Aylwin.

Billionaire Ian Shaw can have everything he wants--except a happy ending. Or at least that's what it feels like with his fortune recently liquidated, his niece, Esme, still missing, and the woman he loves refusing to speak to him. In fact, he doubts she would date him even if they were stranded on a deserted island. Despite her love for Ian, Sierra Rose knows he has no room in his life for her as long as the mystery of his missing niece goes unsolved....

Among those featured are the murder of an uncle by his niece in 1831, a woman whose throat is slashed by her jealous husband in 1859, a mother poisoned by her son in 1910, and a double murder in 1906. Illustrated with a wide range or archive material and modern photographs, Coventry Murders is sure to fascinate both residents and visitors alike as these shocking events of the past are revealed for a new generation.