Novels
- Summer Harvest (1983)
- Song of the Wind (1985)
- Shadows on the Snow (1986)
- The Corsican Woman (1988)
- Edelweiss (1993)
- The Sentinel (1994)
- Harvesting the Past (1995)
- Snakes and Ladders (1997)
- Sunstroke (1998)
- Winners and Losers (1999)
- Twisted Things (2003)
- Ripples on a Pond (2005)
- Hot Ice (2006)
- String of Pearls (2009)
Omnibus
- The Madge Swindells Collection (2020)
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The Corsican Woman
Set in World War II, this is the first novel for many years by the author of ‘Summer Harvest’. Marietta, heiress to a fortune, is a member of a group whose primary aim is to remove Hitler, but who meanwhile establish a network of safe houses to aid the escape of Jewish and political refugees.
Twisted Things
When Clara Conner’s husband is killed in a horrific yachting accident she discovers a tangled web of secrets connected to his past…
Rescued after hours in the freezing water clinging onto the wreckage of her yacht; Clara Conner wakes up in Dover hospital with hazy memories of the accident that put her there. Patrick, her husband, is missing, presumably killed by the explosion that tore the Connemara apart. Haunted by shocking and violent images, Clara becomes convinced that Patrick was murdered and that she was attacked; but are these really memories or are they just trauma induced fantasies? As Clara begins to sort through Patrick s business affairs, she soon realises that her husband had led a double life. He was involved with criminals and owed someone a lot of money. So when a mysterious man appears to be watching the house and following Clara s every move, her fears for her own safety, and that of her twelve year son, grow. Could this man be the attacker who killed Patrick and tried to murder her and does he want to finish the job?
Ripples on a Pond
The well heeled village of Temple Minnis, placid, privileged and picturesque, hides its guilty secret well, presenting a facade as smooth and calm as its deep, dark lake. Thirty years before, the villagers conspired to plan and conceal a murder, but only their dying local novelist, Melissa, suffers from pangs of conscience as she races toward extinction. It takes tough words and a touch of magic from the charismatic Tanzanian vicar, once the witchdoctor of his tribe, to persuade her to write her story…
but as the villagers face up to the past, their lives change irrevocably. Love turns to fury and tragedy when Simon, a farmer hampered by a surfeit of caring, and Bela, precariously straddling two strong cultures, are caught up in the revelations. This is also spiritual story where life’s deeply moving traumas are not only revealed through Simon s tragic, but through comical farming, marriage, and family disasters. Through love, Simon finds a way to overcome his karma and experience universal oneness and joy.
Hot Ice
Christine Winters and Sienna Sheik were best friends at school but with their different backgrounds the two friends soon grew apart – Sienna into the moneyed world she was intended for, whilst Chris had to fight to make her way as a successful businesswoman. It seemed that their worlds were never to meet again. Little did Chris know that Sienna’s wedding day would turn her life upside down. When Sienna is brutally kidnapped from her wedding car, Chris does everything in her power to save her. When she is later headhunted by Financial Investigations Inc., an agency which specializes in criminal investigation and terrorism, she is given the perfect opportunity to solve the mystery of her friend’s disappearance. Suddenly Chris finds herself thrown from an unfulfilling career as a media and entertainment solicitor into the dangerous underworld of diamond smuggling, money laundering, civil war and terrorism. A lone woman in a man’s world, Chris must use her integrity, wit and bravery to uncover the truth surrounding her friend’s kidnapping as well as battling her own demons.
String of Pearls
A story of passion and courage against a backdrop of World War II – Helen Conroys happy family is shattered when her husband asks for a divorce. Then, in September, 1942, US troops pour into Mowbray. For the Brits, life will never be the same again. Captain Simon Johnson, a US military intelligence agent, is billeted with the Conroy family and he and Helen fall deeply in love. As the US troops leave for action, Helen and her daughter, now a war bride, cling together as they listen to daily bulletins of the invasion of Normandy
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