‘It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant.. It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees.’ Who was Billy Blake, other
I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young
A classic novel from the bestselling crime writer - now in an arresting new packageWhen she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers
A classic novel from the bestselling crime writer - now in an arresting new packageAcid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate.A no-man's land of single mothers and fath
A classic novel from the bestselling crime writer - now in an arresting new packageNovember 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets - and somewhere is West Lond
The bestselling crime novelWhen elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points a
A dark, gripping tale of solitude and evilIn 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the on
The stunning bestsellerHave you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it?With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the
A chilling tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning in which villagers react to a brutal double murder . . .In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O’Riordan has been arre
The newspapers reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tries to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiancé, who has since disappeared
The stunning bestseller from Minette WaltersWhen Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to
Waking up in a private hospital, unable to remember anything significant about her past, photographer Jinz Kingsley becomes increasingly alarmed as evidence suggests that she has murdered her fiance+a
ChickenfeedAs part of World Book Day 2006, Minette Walters took part in the Quick Reads initiative, designed to encourage developing readers and adult learners as they explore the exciting world of bo
From the internationally bestselling crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they k
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award?Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the bathtub, apparently of suicide. The old woman ha
In December, 1924, a murder took place on a chicken farm in East Sussex, England. Although Norman Thorne never confessed to killing his girlfriend, Elsie, he was tried and hanged for the crime. In Chi
The terrifying new Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle ‘Muna’s fortunes changed for the better on the day that Mr and Mrs Songoli’s younger s
