Tara Ward

The Dublin Murder squad are called out to the home of wealthy businessman Daniel Erskine, where they discover his tortured body. Then, hours later, his friend Oliver Niland also meets a gruesome end. Ex-FBI agent Saxon teams up with Chief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald to track down the killer, but why has he targeted Daniel and Oliver? And what is the significance of the group known as the Second Circle to which they both belonged? The other members of the group might have the answers - but can Saxon and Fitzgerald get to them before it’s too late?

Journalist Kate Murray finds herself on a voyage of discovery into her grandmother’s wartime past when an old man engages her in a conversation about a murderer who has not been brought to justice.

Wallis Simpson and Maybell Brumby go back a long way. In 1932 the two schoolfriends are re-united in London. We all know the story of the American divorcee who changed the British Royal Family, but no-one tells it like Maybell in her diaries!

Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it - even she acknowledges it. What's wrong with seeing the world through rose-tinted spectacles, even if she is about to turn 30 and aware it's the one thing that consistently gets her into trouble?

When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams, but Laurie is haunted by the killer's threat to her son as he fled the scene: 'Tell your mother she's next, then it's your turn…'

Marsha Reed was an aspiring young actress trying to make it in Dublin. But now she's found fame - as victim of a brutal murder, her body left tied to her bed. With former FBI agent Saxon now living in Dublin, the murder squad have the perfect expert to call on. Saxon has always felt like an outsider in Ireland, and now she’s given the chance to finally take a formal role inside the Dublin Metropolitan Police alongside Chief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald.

June 1952, disembarking from a plane, turning one scarred cheek from the flare of news cameras. Keiko Kitagawa, an eighteen-year-old survivor of an atomic blast has been chosen from hundreds to undergo treatments for her face.

Laura Foster used to be a hopeless romantic, until she grew up and faced reality. Then she met Nick. A romantic hero straight from a fairytale, with a grand country estate. And now people are asking when they'll hear wedding bells. Can an ordinary girl like Laura make it work with one of the most eligible men in the country? Quick Reads.

When her husband, George, dies in a tragic accident, Antoinette's world falls apart. As she arrives at the church for his funeral, she sees an unfamiliar woman. Phaedra loved George too, and as she sits before his wife, she knows that what she is about to reveal will change their lives forever.

When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.