by Jennifer Jordan (1998)
Dee and Barry Vaughan are having a lovely country Christmas at the Grove Inn. But when one of the guests, the fashion model Miranda Travers, is murdered, Dee and Barry must find out what secrets Miranda had that made one of the many suspects resort to murder.
Nicholas Rhea
While seeking the legendary Holy Trough of Blackamoor, D I Montague Pluke comes across a corpse; the dead man, Pluke discovers, has been shot. It is soon established that the victim was a suspect in a murder investigation, and so the eccentric Pluke is pitched headlong into an investigation, which spans both sides of the Pennines, leading him from the beauty of the great outdoors to the seamy backstreets of Manchester.
Leigh Russell
"When three dead bodies are discovered in Detective Ian Peterson's hometown of Kent, Ian takes the lead on a complex murder case with few clues"--
Lis Howell
In picturesque Tarnfield in the north of England, feuds and rivalries between the villagers typically lie dormant. The local vicar decides to shake the community up, bringing together an unlikely alliance between Suzy Spencer, a working mother, part-time television producer and full time mess, and Robert Clark, a conservative, "Mr. Perfect" widower from the parish. But the deadly flower arranger has already struck.
Mari Hannah
Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels finds herself haunted by her inability to solve a brutal double murder. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle's Quayside opens up another opportunity for Daniels to get it right, and her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. But when Daniels recognises the corpse, she fails to disclose that fact, and that puts her personal life in jeopardy. She finds herself being watched, and as she steps ever closer to finding the killer, that killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim...