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The Midnight Hour
1998, Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return...
Two decades later, Paris, Maggie’s phone rings, and her grown-up life shatters. In London, the new owner of the Parker family’s old Notting Hill house starts excavating a basement, unaware of what might lie beneath. And the clock starts ticking on old, buried secrets.
Sweeping from bustling London streets, the boulevards of Paris to an old English country house, The Midnight Hour is a thrilling, richly woven story about a golden family with a hidden past – and a woman trying to turn back the hands of time before it’s too late.
‘Lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping, with a dark undercurrent, but ultimately redemptive and hopeful. A true treat of a book’ - Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal
The Glass House
Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic forest, a baby girl is found.
The Harrington family takes her in, and disbelief quickly turns to joy. They're grieving a loss of their own, and the beautiful baby fills them with hope, lighting up the house's dark, dusty corners. Desperate not to lose her to the authorities, they keep her secret, suspended in a blissful summer world where normal rules of behaviour - and the law - don't seem to apply.
But within days a body will lie dead in the grounds. And their dreams of a perfect family will shatter like glass.
Years later, the truth will need to be put back together again, piece by piece....
'A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets' - Kate Morton, author of Homecoming
The Birdcage
Some secrets need to be set free....
Lauren, Kat and Flora are half-sisters who share a famous artist father—and a terrible secret.
Over the years, they've grown into wildly different lives. But an invitation to Rock Point, the Cornish cliff house where they once sat for their father's most celebrated painting, Girls and Birdcage, reunites them.
Rock Point is a beautiful windswept place, thick with secrets, electrically charged with the events of the summer—20 years before—that the family daren't discuss. But there is someone in the shadows watching their every move. Someone who remembers the girls in the painting—and what they did.
An emotional mystery full of dark secrets and twists, transporting the listener to the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall.
'Engrossing, gripping and layered' - Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place Wrong Time
Black Rabbit Hall
Winner of Saint-Maur en Poche Prize in Paris for Best Foreign Fiction
A secret history. A long-ago summer. A house with an untold story....
The hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall.
For the four Alton children, it's the perfect summer escape where not much ever happens - until one stormy evening, their idyllic world is shattered.
Decades later, Lorna is drawn to a beautiful yet crumbling old house she hazily remembers from childhood and feels a bond she does not understand.
But a disturbing message left by one of the Alton children tells her that Black Rabbit Hall's history is as dark and tangled as its woods. And much like her own past, it must be brought into the light....
A spellbinding story of two women, separated by decades, but inextricably linked by their connection to the beautiful and mysterious Black Rabbit Hall.
‘A delight I want to experience again and again' - Stylist magazine
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
When four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in the Cotswolds to spend the summer, all is clearly not well. They find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. No one seems any closer to finding out the truth. Why did Audrey vanish? Who is keeping her fate secret?
As the sisters are lured into the mystery of their missing cousin, the stifling summer takes a shocking, deadly turn.
One which will leave blood on their hands - and put another girl in danger decades later....
'One of the most enthralling novelists of the moment' - Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True