When a Skye crofter's daughter is murdered one night, a guest at a nearby hotel finds herself caught in a web of fear and suspicion.

Jenny Silver's trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian, Jenny has come to Gavarnie in an attempt to discover why Gillian has entered a convent.

After a drab existence in an English orphanage Linda Martin is appointed governess to the nine-year-old owner of the Chateau Valmy in the French Alps. All seems rosy, but the tensions become terrors when a bullet is fired in the beechwoods."

Charity had been looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the Provencal landscape. But very soon her dreams turn into a nightmare, as Charity becomes enmeshed in the schemes of a gang of murderers.

Camilla Haven is on holiday alone, and wishes for some excitement. No sooner has she written to her friend Elizabeth in England, than her life suddenly begins to take off and she finds herself in the midst of an exciting, intriguing, yet dangerous adventure as she sets out on a mysterious car journey to Delphi.

Following the sudden death of her father, Bryony is determined to find the identity of the male relative who shares her gift of second sight. But danger as well as romance await her.

Inheriting Thornyhold, a house set in a deep wood, is the beginning of a fairy tale for Gilly - the magic brought fleetingly to her childhood by Cousin Geillis returns and she finds the love that finally ends her loneliness. This is the author's first novel since 'The Wicked Day'.

The isolated cottage on the remote Hebridean island of Moila seemed like an ideal away-from-it-all retreat for writer Rose Fenemore. But she finds that it is not easy to escape the world and its troubles.

When Kate's grandmother asks her to travel to her childhood home to retrieve some papers before the cottage is sold, Kate is happy to go. But there is a break-in at the cottage, and her neighbours bring tales of night-time prowlers, and ghosts.

The two remaining heirs to the Winslow fortune are shocked by the arrival of a young woman who claims to be Annabel Winslow, a woman they had thought dead.