Keeley Murdock's wedding to A. J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance entangled with her maid of honour at the rehearsal dinner, all bets - and the wedding - are off. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia. Even worse is the financial pressure A. J.'s banker family brings to bear on Keeley's interior design business. But riding to the rescue - in a vintage yellow Cadillac - is a red-headed stranger. Only a designing woman like Keeley Murdock can find a way to clear her name and exact revenge at the same time.

Deborah Crombie
In A Dark House

Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is called to investigate the shocking death of a woman found burned beyond recognition in a Victorian warehouse in south London. When his partner, Gemma James, is asked to trace a friend's missing roommate, she and Duncan discover that their cases have several disturbing links. Set against a backdrop of Dickensian Southwark, repository of old secrets, the case plunges Duncan and Gemma into the dark recesses of human relationships. Two women are missing, a little girl is abducted, and no one is really what they seem. The detectives must discover the truth, as innocent lives hang in the balance.

As Hannah Pearl's memories of her 1940 escape to England from war-torn France come to the foreground of her consciousness, her memory of her more recent American life is almost erased. Her daughter, Miranda, attempts to bring her mother into the present, yet finds herself pulled into Hannah's past. Miranda's daughters confront the shadows of history in their own ways. Fiona, content with her life as a new mother, tries to ignore the ghostly presence of Hannah's family who perished in the war, while Ida clings to Hannah's revelations as if they form a lifeline. Facing the mystery of Hannah's unspoken memories, each woman must ask how well anyone can know the inner life of another person.