Roman Halter
Roman's Journey

When Hitler's armies arrived in Poland in 1939, 12-year-old Roman Halter's family home was seized, and he was made a slave of the local SS chief. He witnessed his Jewish classmates being bayoneted to death, and went on to lose every other member of his family and the entire community he had grown up in. He tells his story with a simplicity and grace that allow the extraordinary facts to speak for themselves.

M.C. Beaton
Death of a Scriptwriter

With the lovely Priscilla Halburton­Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish - and more ­when a troupe of flashy, urbane film­makers clamours into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery ... and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse.

Detective Chief Inspector Sheldon Hunter is drawn into the secrecy and deception surrounding the prominent Mannering family. Floy Mannering, wealthy and charming, is being temporarily cared for by Daisy, the daughter of her best friend. But Daisy's devotion to Floy and the need to protect her from the claims of the appalling Skinner family lead to desperate measures....