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Seat 7a

Psychiatrist Mats Krüger suffers from aviophobia but overcomes his fear to visit his pregnant daughter. Then he receives a call telling him to manipulate an old patient, now a senior stewardess, into crashing the plane, otherwise his daughter and her baby will die.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Ewa Sherman

The Dare

Lizzie should feel light and bright, after all, she’s marrying Ross. But a wall of fog and fear is closing in, just like the day her best friend died.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Kati Barr-Taylor

Cold as Hell

Two sisters live in different countries. Arora in England and Isafold in Iceland – and that's the way they like it. But when Isador goes missing without trace, Arora is takes the first flight to Reykjavik to investigate her troubling disappearance.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Viv Beeby

Wild Shores

DI Karen Eiken Hornby interrupts her Christmas celebrations to take the ferry to the wilder shores of Doggerland, home of the more lawless branch of her family, to investigate a suspicious death at a remote quarry.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Viv Beeby

Jane and the Year Without a Summer

Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra travel to Cheltenham in an attempt to improve Jane’s ailing health, but their holiday turns out not to be as relaxing as they had expected.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Sylvia Maughan

The Dictator's Wife

In 1993, a young London lawyer of Yanussian descent joins a team to defend the wife of the dictator of Yanussia, a fictitious Eastern European country.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by John Verpeleti

Unsafe Haven

Sixteen-year-old Addy is a runaway, a new mother who has just given her baby to a complete stranger and is now trying to get to the man she thinks she can trust. In flight and fearing for her life, she needs to know who she can call a friend.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Kerry Hood

Desperate Undertaking

Rome, AD 89. Private informer Flavia Albia has picked up a case meant for her adoptive father, Falco. Someone with a nasty grudge against the theatre community is leaving bodies and messages in Rome’s Field of Mars. Nasty grudges, it seems, lead to even nastier murders …

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Kerry Hood

Edge of the Grave

The brutal murder of a young boy takes cop DI Jimmy Dreghorn into the depths of the Glasgow slums in the hunt for his killer.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by John Cleal

Death of a Green-Eyed Monster

No one in Lochdubh expects the new constable to stay for long. Dorothy is a distraction for work-shy Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Then a brutal murder comes along and the pair are plunged into a tangled web of conspiracy.

Reviewed on 25 June 2022 by Fiona Spence

Playing Nice

When a total stranger informs Pete Riley that the child he’s brought up as his own for the past two years isn’t his biological son, his world is in danger of falling apart. But Pete knows he and his wife can work this out with the other couple if only they all play nicely. Or at least he thinks they can …

Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson

Hide and Secrets

Cat’s father is missing, presumed dead. When a man phones her with the news that her father is alive, Cat’s world is turned upside-down, and she’s determined to find him, despite her mother’s disbelief and opposition.

Reviewed on 30 April 2022 by Linda Wilson

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