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She's half the world away, but her heart remains in India. Adela dreams of a life on stage and cannot wait to take her place in the glittering society of India in the dying days of the Raj. Bold and ambitious, nothing will stand in her way - until she falls in love and life takes an unexpected...

The Patient Behind the tall gates of her Notting Hill townhouse, Effie Locke seems to have it all, a career to die for and a devoted husband who can't get enough of her. So when a reckless mistake lands her in court-mandated therapy, everyone is shocked to discover her perfect life has cracks...

A fire amid the historical 'net huts' of Hastings' fishing village, Rock A' Nore - a local tourist attraction - exposes the mummified remains of a small and unidentifiable body that may well have been concealed inside for quite some time. Is this the body of an unfortunate rough sleeper? An...

When tragedy strikes, can she find the courage to love again? Times are hard for Rose. She and her family scrape a living but she dreams of a life beyond the grime of the industrial town. So when she catches the eye of respectable steelworker William Fawcett, it feels like her luck has changed...

Will going home to India bring Sophie the life she has always dreamed of? Sophie has never forgotten the sun-drenched valleys of India. Torn from the only home she has ever known when she is orphaned at age six, she is taken to Scotland but never loses her dream to return. So when her cousin...

A mysterious photograph. A family secret. A search for the truth. Sammy has spent her childhood torn from the lush tea gardens of Assam to a boarding school in England. The second world war is over and India has won its independence, but she fears for her family and loved ones left behind. When...

Will love and war tear apart her beloved homeland forever? Libby is delighted to leave her boarding school in England behind to return to the vibrant beauty of her homeland, and her beloved father, James. Assam is as bewitching as she remembered but India is changing. A rebellion is simmering...

From the jewel-bright valleys of India to the cold grey streets of Newcastle, can Clarissa build a new life? 1904 INDIA: Beautiful, headstrong Clarissa Belhaven can only watch on as her widowed father sinks into debt and drink, bringing ruin to their idyllic tea plantation. When he dies, she is...

A night at the museum, a dead body and a trail to Cairo. Sounds like a case for Miss Clara Vale! 1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de...

The water's rising, the temperature's dropping. Time is running out... I wake up to darkness, my head pounding. As I reach out, my hands meet cold hard stone, and I realise in one single terrifying moment that I'm back where it all started - trapped at the bottom of the well where my best friend...

Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken, Whitstable native and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her idol, Margaret begins receiving sums of money in the post, signed simply 'C'. She is convinced it must be Cilla, but how can it be? To solve the mystery of her benefactor Margaret...

When a couple of storage auction bidders win the contents of unit 37 at 'Best Price Storage', they discover the mummified remains of three dismembered bodies inside. Thus begins a new murder case for Boyd and his team. While East Sussex police force are concerned they may have another serial...

The coastguard found the boat drifting a few miles off the south coast. What they discovered onboard was the last thing they expected to see. DCI Bill Boyd - recently relocated from London to Hastings - is now with the East Sussex CID and his first case is that of a local business man and his...

When old bones are discovered buried beside an A-road it becomes clear that Leon Martin - dubbed the Ken Doll Killer by the tabloid press - may not have taken his life 21 years ago. As Boyd investigates the old case file it becomes clear there may be new bodies buried at lay-bys around the...

DS Okeke's boyfriend, Jay Turner, has had a job offer he can't refuse. The money's too good and the task too easy - follow a rich man's wife and catch her in the act of cheating on him. One problem though... the job's over in the US. And there's another problem - there's a murder. Jay has...

Argyle House, the most hated home on Cottle Street. A place where the town's unwanted and despised are housed. Given the local hostility, it's no surprise to anyone when a body is discovered in one of its flats. Boyd wastes no time despatching Minter and Okeke to investigate. But it's not long...

Audrey Hincher, a middle-aged woman, with a mundane job and an unremarkable home life suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day on a busy street in the centre of Hastings. Boyd and his team are not immediately concerned for her welfare, but as the days pass and questions start to surface about...

With Boyd convalescing at home after his operation, and DS Minter preparing for his Inspector's exam, CID Hastings is woefully under-manned. So, when the body of a young man is found hanging from a tree - an apparent suicide, and a house is burned down killing a wheelchair-bound old woman, it's...

When Jay Turner - a nightclub doorman accidentally overhears a murder being planned he suddenly becomes Hastings' MOST WANTED man! Not only is he wanted by East Sussex Police for a violent crime that he's been framed for, but, by a desperate psychopath with limitless resources who simply can't...

The restoration of an old coastal defence tower is halted when work starts on the flooded basement, leading to the grim discovery of a human bone. The Napoleonic-era ruin is known to the locals as 'Devil's Tower' for the many urban myths and ghost stories attributed to it. Far more terrifying is...