Sophie has an enviable life – beautiful house, successful husband, three children, and a black Labrador to complete the perfect tableau. But all that is about to change.

A message arrives at Sophie’s house, scrawled across her own round robin Christmas newsletter: HE’S GOING TO LEAVE YOU. LET’S SEE HOW SMUG YOU ARE THEN, YOU STUPID BITCH. Perhaps she should ignore it, but she ignored the last one. And the one before that.

When her plan to identify and confront the other woman goes violently wrong, Sophie must go to extreme lengths to keep her life and her family together, all the while guarding her devastating secret…

Janice Keaton is living a quiet, easy life when a longed-for reunion with the daughter she gave up for adoption several decades earlier drags her into a lethal confrontation with the past.

Did her brother die a natural death? Is her former lover, a rock star, really an acid casualty, or was there another reason for his abrupt withdrawal from public life? And what is her granddaughter hiding?

The Wrong Girl is a compelling tale of the dark side of celebrity obsession, of how we choose the guilt we can live with, and how, despite our best efforts, the past comes back to haunt us all.

August 1958: Notting Hill is sweltering in a heatwave.

DI Ted Stratton’s dirt-poor new manor is a powder keg of racial tension. A rent collector is stabbed and a series of street fights between Teddy boys and recent immigrants from the Caribbean sparks further unrest. Young runaway Irene, on the verge of prostitution, finds her loyalties lie on both sides of the fight.

A race riot breaks out – the worst Britain has ever seen. Stratton must tread a path through the violence and prejudice to find the killer and save Irene before Notting Hill explodes.

On a dank November day in 1956, DI Ted Stratton is called to a murder scene in Soho. Just before his death, the victim, loner Jeremy Lloyd, gave a photograph of an unknown woman to a fellow lodger for safekeeping.

Stratton’s enquiries lead him to a sinister foundation in Suffolk, where he meets a boy, Michael, who has been proclaimed as the next in a long line of spiritual leaders. The woman in the photograph is the boy’s mother, who has disappeared.

When a woman’s body is found in woods nearby, Stratton initially assumes he has found the Michael’s mother, but the reality turns out to be far more terrifying…

London,1950: When John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter, it looks like an easy case for DI Ted Stratton. When Davies recants, blaming respectable neighbour Norman Backhouse for the crimes, nobody believes him, and he is convicted and hanged.

Later, after a series of gruesome discoveries, Stratton begins to suspect that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. Did an innocent man hang for a murder he didn’t commit? Worse still – is the murderer still out there?

Based on real-life events: the framing of Timothy Evans for murders committed by notorious serial killer John Christie.

After almost five years of conflict, London’s inhabitants are war weary, and DI Ted Stratton is no exception. After rescuing a neighbour from the rubble of her bombed-out house, he’s called to investigate the death of a doctor. Stratton begins to suspect that something sinister is going on – that a faceless shadow is stalking the hospital corridors…

Meanwhile, Stratton’s wife Jenny helps to look after the bombed-out, traumatised neighbour. When she claims that her soldier husband is an imposter, Jenny thinks that she must be in shock, but the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous…

When the body of a silent film star is found impaled on railings, DI Ted Stratton is unconvinced by the suicide verdict. Ignoring orders to close the case, he investigates and soon finds himself deep in Soho’s criminal underworld.

Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is working on a covert operation to infiltrate a pro-Nazi group with links to senior establishment figures. But questioning her boss’s loyalties may not be a smart move…

When their paths cross, Stratton and Diana start to uncover the truth. But fighting these enemies – within and without – could lead to more than they bargained for…

In 1987, Sheila Shand killed her father. At her trial, it emerged that Sheila, her sister, and her mother had been subjected to a reign of terror and abuse. Years later, investigative journalist Amy Vaughan discovers a newspaper cutting about the Shand case while clearing out her dead mother’s flat. Concluding that they are related, she visits Sheila’s mother, who is in a care home. The more Amy looks into the case, the more her immediate family’s past comes back to haunt her, and she uncovers a web of lies and deceit – and two long-buried skeletons…

Autumn 1940, and London is in the grip of the Blitz. An unidentified female corpse is discovered in an alleyway in Soho – the fourth to have been found in a matter of weeks.

Rene is a prostitute with a young son to support. She can cope with the air-raids, but each night on the streets is a terrifying ordeal as the killer begins to pick off her friends. Lucy is a young office worker, struggling to cope as her suburban world descends into chaos. Jim is a fighter pilot, a handsome hero with a killer instinct that makes him perfectly suited to the daily challenge he faces in the skies of southern England. But the strain is beginning to tell…

I had the dream again last night. I’m at the bottom of a lake looking through the window of a car… and there’s a skeleton behind the wheel, dressed as a Bunny Girl…

Playboy Bunny Alice Conway’s world was shattered when her fiancé, famous comic Lenny Maxted, committed suicide. Now, in 1976, Alice leads a quiet, reclusive life in Oxfordshire – until a newspaper cutting arrives, anonymously, in the post, an unexpected visitor turns up at her door, and the dark secrets of the past come flowing back. And a car containing human remains is discovered in a lake…

If I’d been like those children my mother wrote about, I’d probably have been running the country by now, but there it is. I don’t mind. I’ve got Jack.

 As the country celebrates the 50^th anniversary of VE-Day, Gerald Haxton is unable to escape his tragic past. He talks to his stillborn twin brother, Jack; still fears his domineering mother, famous children’s author Marjorie Haldane, and he remains traumatised by his discovery, in 1944, of the battered corpse of his sister Vera. Desperately lonely, Gerald finds solace in following 12-year-old Mel, who bears a striking resemblance to Vera. When Mel disappears, all eyes turn accusingly on him…

Dodie Blackstock, child of a multimillionaire, was only eight in 1976, the year her mother was kidnapped. Dodie’s father refused to pay the ransom, rescue attempt went disastrously wrong, and no body was ever found. Now Dodie is twenty-nine, and her mother’s body has just been discovered – but she has only been dead for forty-eight hours.

Dodie returns to the family home, Camoys Hall, and begins to piece together the fragments of her mother’s life, whilst trying to come to terms with her own troubled past. But someone is watching her every move…

Blade-sharp and pared to the bone, these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers will lure you to the dark side. Fifteen perfectly twisted tales with a measure of evil, a dash of horror, and a dose of humour. Expect the unexpected…

Fifteen original stories by Jane Casey, Tammy Cohen, Sarah Hilary, Alison Joseph, Erin Kelly, Alex Marwood, Kate Medina, Colette McBeth, Melanie McGrath, D. E. Meredith, Louise Millar, Kate Rhodes, Helen Smith, Louise Voss and Laura Wilson.

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers from the Killer Women crime-writing collective. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as twenty deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places…

Original stories by Rachel Abbott, Sharon Bolton, Jane Casey, Tammy Cohen, Julia Crouch, Elly Griffiths, Sarah Hilary, Amanda Jennings, Alison Joseph, Emma Kavanagh, Erin Kelly, Alex Marwood, Kate Medina, Colette McBeth, Melanie McGrath, D. E. Meredith, Louise Millar, Kate Rhodes, Helen Smith, Louise Voss and Laura Wilson.