Janet Howitt

For the past seven years Carl and Suzanne Peters have lived an idyllic life in St Ives, but it is a life based upon a lie and a hidden past. When a series of poison pen letters threaten to expose their past, their carefully constructed world explodes with shocking consequences.

The most elegant women in Paris visit the cluttered studio by the century old apple tree to be charmed by Claude the tailor. One afternoon Mademoiselle Valentine commissions him to create her wedding dress. For the first time in his life Claude has fallen passionately in love.

Usually the start of the week was a welcome relief for teacher Geri Simpson. But this Monday morning was different, six-former Ryan Connelly was missing. When his body was found the official verdict was that he had been taking drugs, but Geri couldn't accept this. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

Seven-year-old Faith witnesses the pain of her father's infidelity, and her parents' divorce, and starts confiding in an imaginary friend. Faith has no religious background, but she starts reciting parts of the Bible, and develops stigmata. Can she possibly be talking to God?

Finn’s ambition is to work alongside her father in the building trade but she pretends to work in a beauty salon. Gina has been brought up to believe a woman’s place is to look good and say nothing. Both have something to prove. Warm hearted and funny.

Revolutionary France, 1793, and Louis XVI has just been sentenced to death. In Paris, a small group is determined to rescue the king but when their leader is murdered a plan must be pieced together and executed within three days.

In a small French Alpine community an ewe is discovered with its throat ripped out. When a villager is also killed superstitious people believe it is the work of a werewolf, and suspicion falls on Massart. Commissaire Adamsberg, summoned by inept investigators, soon exposes buried secrets, buried hatred and a very real problem - wolves! X rated, contains offensive language.

It is the end of the eighteenth century when Christian VII assumes the Danish throne. He is young, highly impressionable and mentally fragile and many seek to control him in order to advance their own interests. A tale of ruthless political ambition and personal betrayal. X rated, explicit sexual content.

On the Isle of Sheppey are a nature reserve, a nudist beach, a wild boar farm and very little else. A group of troubled individuals all end up on Sheppey, and through the book the awful connection between the characters is laid bare.