It was meant to be a summer holiday job, an opportunity to learn something of the field of mental illness and in the beginning, Jenny Wycroft, a young medical student, became accustomed to the odd behaviour, the bizarre mannerisms and proclivities of the residents. She confessed to an element of uneasiness working with the disturbed and unpredictable but when one of the inmates disclosed to her the details of a long-forgotten murder, Jenny was uncertain how to proceed. Perhaps the patient's senses were presenting her with a false world. Then again, perhaps the truth had surfaced after all...

Hannah Leicester, a 26 year old attractive blonde pharmacist takes up a new post in the small town of Blantells. She is happy with her new position, her colleagues and her digs. Everything seems to be going well, when, on a cold October day, as she returns from a shopping trip, she is abducted, drugged, thrown into a grey van and transported to a remote cabin where, stripped of her clothes and belongings, she is left to await her captor's plans for her. In frantic panic, she manages to escape but is pursued relentlessly by the man who abducted her. After a fast-moving pursuit, she evades...

Jason Castanega is a private investigator who, since leaving the Police Force, runs a one man detective Agency with the assistance of a fifty year old Jamaican lady, Roberta Merissa Burns, affectionately known as Bobby. One evening, while shadowing a well-to-do business man, John Friedman, whose wife believes him to be having an affair, Jason is viciously stabbed. His blood loss is so severe that he is pronounced dead by the paramedics. However, some hours later, he regains consciousness in the morgue. After some deliberation, he decides that his deceased status puts him in a uniquely placed...

Whenever authority 'draws the line, ' Amber Torley steps over it. A stroppy, rebellious teenager with a penchant for trouble, her irrepressible and determined spirit has ignited a bitter feud with her father, whom she nicknames The Bear. In spite of his draconian efforts to control his daughter's wild behaviour, Amber's indomitable nature cannot be tamed. Amber is not without ambition, however, and believes that away from home and free of her father's continual subjugation, she will flourish. When falsely accused of stealing from the teachers' staffroom and facing expulsion from school, Amber...

Bobby Burns hadn't been expecting to find a dead body in Ellen Banks' bath. She had other problems on her mind that night, like the case of the missing Leylandii trees, Dr Ewart's disquiet at having not been burgled, Ivy Waterton's request to sell some elusive treasure and not least, a little girl's concern for her brother's safety. She didn't have long to ponder on the bloodied tattoo on the corpse's chest, she had to hide, and when two men removed the body and with it, all trace of the man's demise, she found herself the only witness to the murder. When she discovers who the murderer is,...