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Bel's joined the Manchester office of a big national paper from her award-winning podcast. There are three of them - Bel, her relentlessly ambitious colleague Aaron, and a new intern. And when the intern turns out to be a 30-something man called Connor, he and Bel get off on totally the wrong foo...

Sadie Smith - thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty - is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of a mysterious...

In London 1942 the war is far from over. Soldier Raymond de Guise returns from North Africa to his family and friends at the Buckingham Hotel. He has suffered hardship and loss, but England needs him more than ever. Spies have infiltrated high society at the hotel, alongside a wave of American GI...

Lauren can't wait to see her daughter again, to pick her up from university at the end of her first term. But when she arrives at her hall and knocks at room 309, a stranger opens the door. For a few minutes, Lauren assumes she must have the wrong room, or the wrong floor. Maybe even the wrong bu...

'I promise.' Meg kissed the top of her daughter's head, tears welling in her eyes. 'I'll never leave you, my beautiful girl. Never.' At the time, she'd meant every word. But now she had to break that promise. When Meg gets a terrible diagnosis, her only thought is for her family. How will her hus...

For vicar's wife Dorothea Cassidy, Thursday was always special because it was her day off. But one day in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled. But who would murder this beautiful, caring woman? As the small town of Otterbridge prepares fo...

The Garnett Girls Joseph and Evelyn's New England beach homes have been side by side for generations. And in the summer of 1941, on the shores where they were raised, these two childhood friends fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, Joseph and Evelyn gather their three grown children to...

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The 'slow horses', as they're called, have all disgraced themselves. Some messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Others got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the ru...

The authorities warned Jim Jackson that if ever set foot in Texas again then he wouldn't get out alive. But Jim is back. Searching for information about old friends incarcerated in the cruel Texas penal system, with intentions to bust them out of wherever they are. When Jim foils a train robbery,...

The most dangerous people are those with nothing to lose. Who don't care if they live or die. Simon Peake does care - he just isn't sure about what right now. The ex-soldier's life is as close to rock bottom as it gets. He needs a job and he needs a quiet life. What he gets is a whole load of mes...