Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens has earned the nickname the 'hard detective'- but she's had to be unyielding to make it in a man's world. And, after all, it was this toughness that inspired her successful Stop the Rot campaign, that has so provoked local criminals. But now two of her officers have died within hours of each other and harriet comes to believe both have been murdered...

Angie is seventeen years old, and, with the help of a mini skirt, a pair of false lashes and a pink lipstick, she has made herself into a beauty of the Swinging Sixties. And night time is when Angie comes into her element- she has got the world at her feet. But all this was before that rainy night, when Angie got into the big, shiny car, leaving her friend Jackie in Soho to find her way home...

As a retired, widowed and meticulously organised hotelier Monsieur René's life seems entirely in order. But, despite a sharp and active mind, he is suffering from late life depression and finally decides that he must find a new diversion. Bringing together a group of like-minded hoteliers to monitor suspicious-acting guests, René is re-invigorated, and in his new role he occupies a position of particular eminence. A wonderfully engaging novel about a sharp-witted man discovering a new lease of life in his twilight years.