The Roman Baths in the city of Bath are reknowned the world over. The feel of the centuries hangs over you. Steam rises from its hot springs. It’s awesome, but even so you don’t expect murder. Honey deals with a cruel reviewer, a giant teddy bear and Superman – or someone who liked to think they were. Hilarious and, as always, slightly mad.

When a woman drowns in what should have been a rejuvenating mud bath, Honey is sent under cover to find out more. A cinch – but it isn’t. It’s torture. The food is best given to rabbits. Chocolate and cheese are not allowed. Can she possibly concentrate on solving this case, or will she end up eating the furniture?

Ten year old Magda Brodie’s world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas.

Her wastrel father arranges for her sisters to be sent to their grandparents in Ireland and for her younger brother to be adopted leaving Magda distraught with worry as her family are scattered far and wide.

Magda, as the eldest girl is sent to live with her Aunt Bridget who for whatever reason, holds a bitter resentment towards Magda.

But adversity makes Magda strong and determined. She dreams of happier times, to reunite her family and make her Christmas Wish come true.

Honey Driver has engaged a top notch interior designer to upgrade the reception area of The Green River Hotel. Unfortunately Philippe is found dead, choked by a Victorian lavatory flush handle.

A film crew has come to Bath. Yet another Jane Austen film is in the offing. Honey, friends and family trot along as extras, but there’s more drama off screen than on. Tempermental Martyna Manderley is not flavour of the month with anyone and when she’s found stabbed with a hat pin there’s a list of people who admit to not liking her. It doesn’t help when Honey picks up a bloodstained script and becomes number one suspect.

One sultry evening in Kowloon, Dr Rowena Rossiter and Sister Alice Huntley are off-duty and in search of fun – little knowing that their world is on the brink of collapse.

That night, Rowena will meet two men who will fight for her heart for the next four years. Connor O’Connor, the rebellious Irish soldier, who will woo and then lose her, and Kim Pheloung. Immensely rich and the most beautiful man Rowena has ever seen, he is also the most ruthless, with a sinister need to possess and control.

When the Japanese invasion leaves this previously strong and independent woman raped and broken, who will succeed in claiming Rowena’s body and soul? And will she ever learn to love the child born of that terrible Christmas Day?

Honey Driver agrees, rather grudgingly, to join a friend on a ghost walk around the crescents and terraces of historic Georgian Bath.

There are no ghosts, but death is just around the corner.

One of the walkers is found hanged in a dusty antiques shop — murdered.

The victim is Lady Templeton-Jones, an obnoxious American aristocrat who was lured away from the walk. And straight into the killer’s noose.

As one of the last people to see her alive, Honey feels bound to investigate.

But does she have a ghost of a chance of solving the mystery?

Originally published as Walking with Ghosts.

MEET HONEY DRIVER. HOTEL OWNER. WIDOWED MUM. CRIME SOLVER?

Honey Driver isn’t sure about becoming the new police liaison for the Bath Hotels Association — especially when DS Steve Doherty is her opposite number.

Yes, he’s good-looking, but he’s also arrogant and uninterested in partnering with “Bath’s answer to Miss Marple”.

But, Honey tells herself, nothing ever happens in pleasant, safe Bath.

Then an American tourist goes missing. And washes up dead on the riverbank, within sight of the famous Pulteney Bridge.

The tourist was staying at Ferny Down Bed and Breakfast across town, run by Cora Herbert.

Cora’s shifty ex has just come out of prison. The last thing she needs is a dead guest to ruin her reputation.

Honey has her suspicions about who’s behind the American’s death. DS Doherty doesn’t want to know, so Honey plunges into her own investigation.

And then Cora’s new husband is found dead in their garden.

Can Honey uncover a killer before any more Ferny Down residents turn up dead?

Originally published as Something in the Blood.

1913

Lydia Miller, daughter of a German doctor, is training to become a nurse when she first meets debonair Robert Ravening, the nephew of a Lord and a keen aviator and promptly falls in love.

When the Great War begins in 1914, Robert enlists with the Royal Flying Corps and as a nurse, determined to help all she can, Lydia is sent to France.

But her love affair with Robert has more than one consequence as secrets and sins are disclosed.

Also being both British and German Lydia finds herself in No Man’s Land, suspected by one and imprisoned by the other.

Previously published as Home for Christmas

Bristol 1941

Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself judged harshly by her friends and neighbours, after courageously risking everything for a second chance at happiness with Michael.

With Michael away fighting Mary Anne is less concerned by her tarnished reputation and focusses on keeping her beloved children safe. But with the bombs beginning to fall on Bristol, danger is all too close to home.

Will Mary Anne rise above her tarnished reputation and protect those she loves from the uncertainty of a world at war?