When sweet-talking Mick Brogan dies, his young wife Cathleen struggles to bring up their daughters in their rented rooms in 1960s North London. She is comforted by Father Jerry, her husband’s cousin, and a priest generally acknowledged by the Irish community to be both a saint and the spit of Gregory Peck. As their friendship develops, Cathleen fears they are growing too close. Hoping that confession will ease her troubled mind, she says the things that can’t be said anywhere else – not realising that she is confessing to the man she loves. When a tragedy forces Cathleen back to Ireland, she must face the truth and accept the consequences of such a forbidden love…
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The Housemaid’s Daughter
Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa to marry her fianc . Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and the friendship of her housemaid’s daughter, Ada. Under Cathleen’s tutelage, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist, and a reader who cannot resist turning the pages of the diary, discovering the secrets Cathleen sought to hide. When Ada is compromised and finds she is expecting a mixed-race child, she flees from her home. Scorned within her own community, she is forced to carve a life for herself, her child, and her music.
The Unexpected Gift
When London nurse Megan Falstaff is informed she’s received an inheritance from her beloved godmother Cathleen, she’s expecting a couple of cat figurines. What she actually inherits is a boarding cattery in the village of Little River – with the stipulation that she must run it for at least a year. Getting to grips with the eccentricities of felines and village folk alike is challenging for Megan – and matters aren’t helped by the disdain of the haughty vet Doctor William Wakefield…
Broken Hearts
Cross your heart and hope to live… When a corpse is found with its heart removed, the media is quick to resurrect the name of an infamous murderer – Cupid. The modus operandi matches that of a 20-year-old case, when two children were found guilty of murder. Having served their time, the killers were released and the crime put to rest. Until now… Are the Cupid killings beginning again or is a copycat at work? The authorities hope so – otherwise the evidence points to a cataclysmic error two decades before. Lawyer Brodie McLennan must risk everything to defend a client who may be a victim – or a monster.
The Sunday Girls
During the Great Depression, like many others in Dundee, the Neill family are struggling to make ends meet. Ann would love to stay at school but following the death of her mother she is forced to become a housemaid to support her family. Her employer, Mrs Barrie, couldn’t be kinder, but the spiteful housekeeper Miss Hood makes Ann’s life a misery. When she meets Maddie, the daughter of a prosperous Dundee solicitor, the only thing they have in common is that they were both born on a Sunday, but they become firm friends, finding fun and laughter in good times and bad.
A Dead Question
Detective Inspector Honey Laird is two weeks away from giving birth when her boss asks her to investigate Dr McGordon … her neighbour. On the outside he appears to be the perfect doctor, but when officers knock on his door, looking for witnesses to an accident, Dr McGordon reveals a guilty conscience about something and refuses to say anything. Honey, helped by an unsure young officer, her overprotective housekeeper and her faithful Labrador, Pippa, dives into the case, and it soon becomes clear that the ‘what’ can be just as mysterious as the ‘who’ … and ultimately just as shocking.
The Darkness And The Deep
The wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat with the loss of all three of its crew is a hard blow for the small Scottish town, but it’s harder still when DS Tam MacNee discovers that it isn’t simply a tragic accident. Was it just the act of vandals, bored in a fishing port stricken with unemployment? Could it be linked to the drugs trade? Or is there someone who, in their determination to kill one person, is callous enough to take two innocent lives? With a whole community hungry for justice, DI Marjory Fleming investigates, and the pressure – professional and personal – is on.
The Lady Of The Loch Audio MP3 CD
Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307 When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to escape north of Inverness to throw herself at the mercy of the Lord and Lady at Ravenscraig Castle. Although safe for now, the people of Scotland are fighting hard for their independence, and the threat of the English hangs heavy over the land. But when Agnes spies Cam Buchanan swimming in the loch, her mind turns away from war and towards love. Agnes even dares to dream of a happy future, until she learns that Cam must go and fight alongside Robert de Brus. Present day Twins Leah and Zoe need a change, so caretaking at Ravenscraig Castle is the perfect opportunity to get away from it all. Surrounded by rugged Highland countryside, and bordered by a loch, the picturesque setting is everything they dreamed of. But the locals are reluctant to visit Ravenscraig, and there are whispers of ghosts and lost souls. The sisters quickly dismiss such superstition, but soon the overwhelming sadness they feel coming from tower grows too hard to ignore. Can the sisters finally right the wrongs of seven hundred years of heartbreak, seven hundred years of betrayal…
The Lady Of The Loch Audio CD
Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307 When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to escape north of Inverness to throw herself at the mercy of the Lord and Lady at Ravenscraig Castle. Although safe for now, the people of Scotland are fighting hard for their independence, and the threat of the English hangs heavy over the land. But when Agnes spies Cam Buchanan swimming in the loch, her mind turns away from war and towards love. Agnes even dares to dream of a happy future, until she learns that Cam must go and fight alongside Robert de Brus. Present day Twins Leah and Zoe need a change, so caretaking at Ravenscraig Castle is the perfect opportunity to get away from it all. Surrounded by rugged Highland countryside, and bordered by a loch, the picturesque setting is everything they dreamed of. But the locals are reluctant to visit Ravenscraig, and there are whispers of ghosts and lost souls. The sisters quickly dismiss such superstition, but soon the overwhelming sadness they feel coming from tower grows too hard to ignore. Can the sisters finally right the wrongs of seven hundred years of heartbreak, seven hundred years of betrayal…
Watch Him Die
The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house show that something is deeply wrong. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, DI Rachel Narey is searching for a missing young woman – and the man she suspects of killing her. When a feed broadcasting the slow and painful death of a final victim is discovered, these two cases become linked. There’s no way to identify him. No way to find him. No way to save him. Not without the cooperation of a killer. And the only way he will cooperate is if he can watch him die.
