Devil’s Breath Large Print Paperback

Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical Toxicology who lives alone in London with only her extensive collection of poisonous plants for company. She tends to her roof garden with meticulous care. Her life is quiet. Her schedule never changes. Until the day she hears a scream and the temptation to investigate proves irresistible. Through her telescope, Professor Rose is drawn into the life of an extraordinarily beautiful neighbour, Simone, and nicknames the men who visit her after poisonous plants according to the toxic effect they have on the woman. But who are they? And why does Eustacia recognise one of them? She feels inexplicably compelled to protect her neighbour. But when her precious garden is vandalised, and someone close to Simone is murdered with a toxin derived from a rare poisonous plant, Eustacia becomes implicated in the crime, and entangled in a complicated web.

Curtain Call At The Seaview Hotel

Helen Dexter has started a new chapter in her life as sole proprietor of the Seaview Hotel. When an acting troupe book into the hotel to rehearse a play they hope will save a much-loved theatre from being closed down, Helen immediately picks up on tension between the actors. But there is worse to come when the leading lady is found dead. Helen is roped into helping the troupe with their performance, giving her ample opportunity to discover who wanted their diva dead. However, the murder is not the only thing on Helen’s mind. She’s receiving threatening phone calls, her car is vandalised – and she’s just learned of an impending visit from a hotel inspector. Helen is determined to uncover the identity of the killer – even if it means she has to give the performance of her life.

Skelton’s Guide To Blazing Corpses Large Print Paperback

It is November 5th, Guy Fawkes Night, 1930. Bonfires are blazing, rockets burst. In a country lane, revellers discover a car that has been set on fire. At first they assume that this is the work of vandals taking the Guy Fawkes spirit a little too far, then they notice, sitting at the wheel, a body, charred beyond recognition. The initial assumption is that the owner of the car, Mr Harold Musgrave, a successful travelling vacuum cleaner salesman has taken his own life by flooding the car with petrol and lighting a match. The post-mortem, however, reveals that Mr Musgrave was either unconscious or dead before the fire was lit. When Tommy Prosser, a local criminal, is charged with the murder, barrister Arthur Skelton believes him to be innocent, so sets out to prove as much and ensure justice is served.

Woman Of Mystery

While on a study holiday in Italy, researching the mysterious last paintings of Lorenzo Gagliardi, Jessica Matthews is advised to search out Noah Glassman, a visiting lecturer at the local university, for help. To her frustration, she finds him both abrasive and attractive. Events take a sinister turn when Noah’s office is vandalised – and then a Gagliardi painting is damaged in a break-in at an exhibition. Who could have a motive for the crimes – and what secrets are waiting to be discovered within the ancient monastic foundations of the university?

As Serious As Death

Primavera Blackstone has found contentment in a small Spanish village by the sea. A fiercely protective single mother, she doesn’t appreciate an offer of marriage. Nor does she welcome the arrival of a blast from her past, retired cop Ricky Ross, now a private detective and working for Jack Weighley, millionaire owner of a budget airline. Primavera teams up with Ricky to investigate a series of mystery assaults on Jack’s aircraft. Are they mere acts of vandalism, or the sinister work of Catalan extremists? When Ricky’s car is fire-bombed, more questions arise…not least, why is the Spanish Special Branch involved? As Primavera and Ricky are drawn into events, Primavera begins to understand the true meaning of “till death us do part”.

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The Stranger Large Print Paperback

A village shrouded in mystery. Secrets buried deep… When Ray moves to a new house in the village of Whitchurch, he wants nothing more than to leave the pain of his old life behind and start a better life in the countryside. The locals might be wary of him at first, but Ray soon realises that sleepy Whitchurch has its own fair share of problems. Last year, a woman’s body was found in the woods nearby. The killer was never caught. Soon, more suspicious things start to happen. Threatening letters are sent, cars are vandalised and headstones are desecrated. But who is responsible for these acts and why? As the tension in the village builds, Ray begins to feel the pressure too. Someone is out to cause trouble, and that someone might be closer to Ray than he ever imagined.

Best Intentions

Maggie spends Sundays and Tuesdays helping to serve tea and hot meals to the homeless in her city, though her volunteer group must contend with vandals burning the facilities down. Then she meets the handsome and mysterious Cliff, who makes no secret of his attraction to her as she serves him tea – but is he one of the homeless, or does he have a deeper agenda? Sparks fly as Maggie and Cliff get to know each other; and then Maggie’s work throws her into a life-threatening situation…

Narrow Dog To Carcassonne

Terry and Monica Darlington, both pensioners, decided to take their narrowboat Phyllis May across the English Channel and through Belgium and France to the Mediterranean, with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who told them they would lose their boat, their lives – and their whippet Jim. Undeterred, this is their story – a true, high adventure of two innocents and a reluctant dog. They chase rabbits in Oxfordshire, dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, experience the history of Flanders, drift across Champagne and are swept from Lyon to Avignon by the terrible Rh ne. Storms, hangovers, breakdowns, vandals, trolls, aliens, killer fish and the walking dead stand between the intrepid crew and their goal – many-towered Carcassonne.