SEVEN SISTERS
Men get away with murder all the time. Now it’s our turn … A twisty, intriguing crime novel for fans of The Mother and The Family Doctor.
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Men get away with murder all the time. Now it’s our turn … A twisty, intriguing crime novel for fans of The Mother and The Family Doctor.
A stranger accosts Olivia on the street warning, “Don’t sign anything.” When she reluctantly follows his advice, everything starts to fall apart.
As the web of neighbourly relationships unravels and the secrets of Apple Tree Creek are exposed. One question will be asked: which one of us is willing to kill?
June 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.’ So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson when the Channel Islands are invaded by the Germans.
When mother and daughter meet at Tempe Brennan’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.
A young codebreaker at Arlington Hall – the secret WWII Signals Intelligence unit in Washington DC – joins forces with other female codebreakers to hunt a murderer who is killing US government girls.
A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. Who can we trust?
en years ago, sixteen-year-old Gemma Toombs was kidnapped from Bangkok Airport by an infatuated drifter who took her to a secret den in the Australian desert. What is the legacy of this coercive relationship? Who holds the cards now?
Popular French police procedural. Captain Julia Scola (played by Claire Keim) is a proud police officer, like her father. She’s experienced and efficient and, at home, supported by her partner Daniel. At work, she’s in the bad books with some colleagues for reporting corruption and she has a new boss, Novak Lisica. He was a defence lawyer, is now a fast-tracked senior police officer, and he was her childhood friend and teenage boyfriend. She cannot work with him.
Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible.
Lewis also knows but can’t reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret.
Five days later, Esther’s buried body is discovered.