Margaret Yorke

Louise Vaughan disappeared one night on the way home from choir practice, and although no body was ever found, Detective Marsh still believes, years later, that the investigation is worth the time and effort.

William Adams is a killer who has never been convicted for murder. He has never confessed, even when convicted of rape and criminal assault. Now, having served his sentence in full, he is free, subject to no supervisory control. He has some money put way. He can assume a new identity and disappear. But Adams recognized someone from his past, someone also staying at the country town under as assumed name, someone who must have recognized him. Thus,...

When a stranger is welcomed into a small British country town, she brings many of the community's long-buried secrets to the surface. But when a young girl is kidnapped, questions about the true identity of the stranger emerge.

An English police investigation into the killing of a man who was trying to break up a fight between boys. None of the participants is willing to rat on the killer. By the author of A Question of Belief.

Punch Carrie Foster was still young when she started breaking the law. And she was good at it. Gordon Matthews had transgressed only once, but the crime was far more serious. It was a pity Carrie didn't suspect anything when he proposed to her, but why should she? Nicholas was different - a shy young man - and for Carrie their affair began as an amusing diversion. A bit of harmless fun, and Nicholas need never know about her other life with Gordon....