by Tom Sharpe (2014)
Wilt is given to elaborate and vindictive fantasies about his wife, the massive, domineering Eva. But when Eva becomes a Missing Person, following an embarrassing incident at a party they both attend, the police want to question Wilt.
Jennifer Jordan
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.
Martin Edwards
The magnificent Dungeon House and gardens overlook Cumbria's remote western coast with its mix of beaches, dunes, and fells, Roman ruins, and nuclear plant. Twenty years ago the wealthy Whiteleys called it home. But not a happy one. Malcolm Whiteley had begun to disintegrate under financial and emotional pressures. He suspected various men in their social circle of being his wife's lover.
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...
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.