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Sarah Thomson and Marco Donato's complicated love affair continues - their passion is a deep one but both have been…
badly hurt before and are wary of exposing their vulnerabilities to the other. Meanwhile, Sarah begins to research a new subject: In Nineteen-Thirties Germany, Katherine Hazleton escapes her stuffy finishing school and runs away to Berlin in pursuit of an unsuitable man. Alone and penniless when her boyfriend deserts her, she is forced to become a hostess at a cabaret bar. There she reinvents herself as Kitty Katkin. Writing her own songs to accompany her risque dance routines, Kitty is soon a sensation. She is in love with Berlin and her handsome musician lover, Otto. But Germany is about to change. Will Kitty and Sarah find the love they truly deserve? Sequel to "The girl behind the fan". 2013.
Hurt and confused by the sudden end of her strange love affair with Venetian millionaire Marco Donato, Sarah Thomson takes…
her bruised heart to Paris, where she tries to forget her yearning for Marco by throwing herself into a new project: a study of the life of notorious nineteenth-century courtesan, Augustine Levert. It is while she is in France that Sarah meets her ex-boyfriend Steven, who is hoping for reconciliation. Sequel to "The girl behind the mask”. Followed by "The girl behind the curtain". Includes sex. c2013.
Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London, historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her…
research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Followed by "The girl behind the fan". Includes sex. c2013.
Jeffrey is little more than a stranger to Helen when he tells her to do things no other man has…
hinted at. A cultured, wealthy stranger who likes to play games of master and servant. In the secrecy of a London apartment, in the debauched opulence of a Parisian retreat, they become partners of perversity and shame. Emerging from the shadows of guilt, a resolutely virtuous young widow is transformed into a voracious wanton. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2008.
Lucy Angkatell invites Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the…
swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: 'Henrietta'. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. 1955.
London, 1829. Acclaimed romance writer Marina Wyatt, the widowed countess of Gorham, falls in love with the scholarly Jasper Hedges,…
an uncle of her young friend Sir Anthony Hedges. While indulging in their clandestine affair, Marina is blackmailed for past indiscretions. Some strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Rita Award. c2008.
Sixtyish New York cultural critic David Kepesh is already struggling with his own mortality when a former favourite young lover,…
Cuban Consuela Castillo, returns in ill health to see him again. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.
While on holiday Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy investigate the murder of a woman whose body was found at the base…
of Lyme's famous sea wall as well as the prospect that Fitzwilliam's naval-lieutenant cousin may have also been murdered. 2012.
While in Westlake Hospital, Katie DeMaio sees a woman's body being carried to a car in the middle of the…
night. The next day the woman is found dead and declared a suicide. 1980.
As treasurer of WinterFest, Lee McKinney Woodyard is getting tired of the egos, arguments, and last-minute mix-ups, especially when the…
guest juror of the art show shows up drunk. Things get even worse when Lee's husband discovers that the visiting dignitary has been murdered. A mystery set in the luscious if deadly world of chocolate. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.
In her rare free time, newlywed Lee McKinney Woodyard works on TenHuis Chocolade's newest offerings, chocolate jewels. But soon the…
town of Warner Pier has its very own jewel heist, and then a body is found in the lake. Lee can't help but wonder if the crimes are related. Maybe if she digs up some dirt, she'll hit the mother lode. 2007. (Chocoholic mysteries ; 7)
Bride-to-be Lee McKinney is trying to avoid trouble with her future mother-in-law and her own mother, who doesn't even want…
to be at the wedding if it takes place in Warner Pier, her hometown. When Lee asks her Aunt Nettie at the chocolate shop for advice, she learns that years earlier, her mother fled on what would have been her own wedding day - hours before her fiancé was found dead. Now Lee must untangle a mystery older than she is. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2006.
Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails, but then somebody actually kills the…
woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee realizes that if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to solve the case. c2005.
Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although…
the movie mogul's chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer's talk is a bunch of sweet nothings - and she grows even more suspicious when she stumbles upon a dead body. 2004. (Chocoholic mysteries ; 4)
For the Fourth of July, Lee McKinney and her aunt debut their latest confections - chocolate frogs - at TenHuis…
Chocolade. The first customer to buy a croaker is the town crank. But when he later disappears and police suspect foul play, it's a chocolate clue that leads Lee to the killer. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2003.
Lee McKinney and her Aunt Nettie, small-town chocolatiers, are about to unwittingly step into some big-time crime. But a curious…
Lee won't rest until their chocolate shop - not to mention their lives - are out of danger. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2002.
Looking for a fresh start, divorcée Lee McKinney moves back to Michigan to work for her aunt's chocolate business, and…
finds that her new job offers plenty of murderous treats to chew on. When a high-profile defense lawyer dies after eating a cat-shaped chocolate laced with cyanide, it's up to Lee to find out who tampered with the recipe, before she and her aunt end up behind not-so-chocolate bars. 2002. (Chocoholic mysteries ; 1)
For Mary and Colin, on holiday in a city where everything is strange to them and they are continually lost…
both physically and mentally, it is easy to close their eyes to the hidden danger lurking behind Robert's apparent friendliness. 1981.
Everyone is stymied when two of Pickax's most prominent citizens are found murdered in their home. But even more puzzling…
to Qwill is Koko's sudden and unaccountable attraction to rubber cement. Sequel to “The cat who knew Shakespeare”, followed by “The cat who went underground”. 1993.
With his companion Polly in Paris, Qwill keeps himself occupied by writing an absurdist play called "The Cat Who Got…
Elected Dog Catcher." Meanwhile, things are spicing up in Pickax. Huge inheritances from old families are suddenly and mysteriously pouring in to town, but nobody is quite sure why. Except Koko, that is - and she's not telling. Then things get really interesting when one resident drops dead from an apparent bee sting. Can Qwill and his cats get to the bottom of things? Bestseller. Sequel to “The cat who dropped a bombshell”. 2007.