Murder in a Surrey Tribe
After her musician husband's affair with their Ukrainian cleaner, journalist Impey Dalrymple seeks a new set of friends. She joins one of the top hundred golf clubs, the prestigious Bisley Heath in leafy south west Surrey. Caught with her knickers down, rumours soon spread. Only when one of the club's key players is killed, her knowledge of animal societies draws her into the role of a reluctant sleuth. As she delves beneath the surface of the upper crust members' lives, she finds even in the most respectable places, nature is still "red in tooth and claw". But if she reveals their secrets, she risks her own survival.
Hardback £19.99 ISBN 9780055763113
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 9780055763113
The Passion Principle
"Love conquers everything". So they sang in the dying embers of the 20th century. In the era when women were liberated to strive for personal success, some women still lived to love. It was the last throes of the mistress. Camilla survived to marry her prince. Edwina thrived as a reporter and writer after being dumped by a future prime-minister. But - what befell Fenella who, gave up everything for
a man?
"It amazed her how satisfying it was hearing the noise of the material rending and tearing. She liked watching the way the lining came apart and flapped. Little filaments of dark grey thread interspersed with veins of white where a narrow stripe in the material had been, waved uselessly, rent by the knife. In moments, Gordon's three suits were lying in ragged grey ruins before her."
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 9781857760118