How would you feel coming home to find a family living in your house who call you Sarah, tell you your brother's name is Andy and insist that you should be ashamed of calling the police for help? My name is Rowena Shaw and I've never seen any of them before. They are total strangers. It's Thursday and it's just the beginning.

WHEN THE SNOW CAME is the fifth novel in the Richie Stevens investigates series. When Judith Weston leaves her handbag on a bus, this insignificant event is responsible for unlocking the past. Annie Troughton has a secret, which she is desperate to hide, John Banks fears his wife Katie is damaged by her past, a child adopted at birth has killed a cat and another searches for his mother. All these characters are linked to the woman who is living a quiet life in Lockford on the south coast of England, where Richie Stevens has his office. All of them have a motive to commit a murder. Richie's...