Gabriel Thatcher has never forgotten the love of his life, Helen, who traveled around India with him on one memorable vacation and then abandoned him 25 years ago, while pregnant with their child. Maddie Cambay is a successful young actress currently starring in a musical at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre. These two seemingly very different people are brought together by a strange set of circumstances that involve a horrific murder trial and a secret that Gabriel must have the strength to reveal, so that true justice is done.

Our heroine Alice is catapulted by a succession of terrifying events on to an extraordinary journey, to find the reincarnated soul of her lost and beloved brother. To aid her, she is given a magical box with six mysterious clues written in different languages, the answers to which will complete a crossword puzzle. Alice is hampered by suffering from a terrible and fatal disease, currently wiping out most of her generation in Britain, which gives her only a few months to live. Nevertheless, knowing that Clair will have a message providing the cure for her disease, Alice struggles through...

The Most Diminutive of Birds - set in London and Yorkshire, England, is a dark psychological thriller that traces one woman's descent into hell and back again. Three families are forever affected when their lives intertwine in unexpected ways, and they are forced to face their inner and outer demons. A detective is linked by his obsession to the killer he is searching for, a figure seemingly elusive but strangely present. The reader is drawn inexorably into the mind of the killer, and an empathy develops. Intimate in scope yet universal in theme, the novel shows how we all can be at the...