Judith Cutler

Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner....

On a freezing winter's night, the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their beds by an unexpected visitor....

When everything points to the shadowy dealings of people smugglers in the area, Jane Cowan has her work cut out....

It's a busy weekend for Lina: she wins a dance competition, annoys a valuable client and has to play gooseberry when Griff, her business partner, meets an old flame....

Newly retired, ex-chief superintendent Fran Harman and her partner, Mark, have volunteered to assist West Mercia police in reinvestigating an unsolved crime....

When Josie Welford settles in the idyllic West Country village of Kings Duncombe, she honestly believes she can bury her past....

Morning service in the quiet village church. Josie Welford, licensee of the White Hart, is daydreaming during Father Tim Martin’s sermon....

Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has been assigned to investigate the case of a woman beaten into a coma....

Sophie Rivers has left behind the stresses of teaching at an inner-city college in Birmingham for a while and has just started seeing the delectable Mike Lowden....

For lecturer Sophie Rivers a writing course on the outskirts of Birmingham is a bit of a busman’s holiday. Still, creative inspiration might strike....

Sophie Rivers is rightly proud of her cousin Andy, a famous rock’n’roll star. Andy has just renounced the excesses of the music business....

Sophie Rivers has left the turmoil of her inner-city college to take an MEd course at the University of the West Midlands....

Sophie Rivers thinks she’s fallen on her feet when a temporary research post takes her to George Muntz College, just yards from her Birmingham home....

Sophie Rivers can't wait to settle into married life now that Mike is back from touring Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the England cricket team....

For Sophie Rivers, tackling newly imposed profit margins and a disruptive Fundamentalist movement means that teaching comes low on the agenda....

With her husband away on an England cricket tour of Pakistan, and the deadline for her MEd dissertation looming....

When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend's antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina's instincts tell her to avoid the sale....

The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer’s afternoon is helping at a church fete....

From the moment Lina Townend and Griff Tripp, set up their antiques stall at the weekend fair....

Antiques dealer Lina Townend....