Anita Waller

Fatally addictive!' real reader review The Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they've expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager – a qualified and astute woman named Carol. What starts as a simple burglary case soon turns into something darker. The victim of said burglary soon turns up dead, after making threats to the local yobs she believed to have been responsible. But it soon becomes clear...

Liz Chambers is a devoted mother who works for a successful law firm. She has two children, a husband and a blossoming career. But behind closed doors, Liz is harboring a secret that could destroy her life. Then the unthinkable happens, and in a frenzied attack, her young son is snatched from the home of the childminder charged with looking after him. Desperate to get her baby boy back, Liz must work out who is responsible for his kidnap, and why....

Kat and Mouse are back. Church Deacon Kat and her friend Beth, known as Mouse, have started a private investigation business in the sleepy village of Eyam. Kat, whose estranged criminal husband, Leon, is on the run, has a lot on her plate running the new business whilst heavily pregnant. When a widow asks the sleuths for help, Kat and Mouse find themselves searching for the birth mother of the widow's husband. But when, it becomes clear that the widow...

When a group of six children playing in their den in the woods spot a man burying drugs nearby, it marks the beginning of the end of their childhoods. Unsure what to do, the children dig up the drugs and take them away. But when the dealer, who they watched bury the supply, shows up dead, the youngsters are thrown into turmoil. Scared of what might happen, the children tell the police about the body they have discovered. Meanwhile, a group of gangsters...

Will this killer ever run out of luck? When DI Erica Cheetham and DS Beth Machin are, called to investigate the murder of a young woman, whose naked body is, discovered in a river, they realise an old foe is killing again. The police realise this new death is linked to a spate of cold case murders and the killer is back. Five years earlier, four young women were found murdered, their bodies left in woody areas, and the new victim shares similar hallmarks....

A gripping psychological thriller from an international best-selling author How much can one family take? Jenny Carbrook murdered three people to make it look as though there was a serial killer at work in Lincoln, when the only person she wanted to kill was Ray Carbrook, her father-in-law, who had raped her the week before her marriage to Mark, Ray's son. Jenny wrote letters detailing her crimes in order to protect everyone she loved, but was forced...

Winterscroft: a stunning new suspense thriller from an international best-selling author When the beautiful Lavender is, killed in a tragic car accident her family and fiancé Matt are left devastated. As the year's pass and wounds begin to heal, Matt, who has remained close to Lavender's family, meets Beth and falls in love again. When the happy couple announce their engagement, it sparks a series of bizarre and disturbing events. Then when Matt...

The revamped Connection Investigation Agency team takes on a decades-old crime in this thriller from the bestselling author of Murder Unjoyful. The Connection Investigation Agency has seen big changes. New partners, Tessa, Luke, and Beth, have taken over and members of the old team have moved on to pastures new. On the first day of reopening, a body is discovered in the outhouse at the back of the office and their first case begins with bones that...

When grave secrets surface can life ever be the same again? Pensioner and Private Investigator Doris Lester has taken a well-deserved break from work. She's planned a holiday with her best friend Wendy on a journey across the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Dales. But before they depart a letter arrives, and the contents stir up trouble and memories of the past. Soon Doris and Wendy are drawn into the mystery surrounding a troubled family, a missing person...

'One of the best authors around… Sleep will stop until you finish her books as they are so addictive from start to finish!!!' Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ They keep each other's secrets. They hide each other's lies. They were destined to be best friends. The four girls – all born that same hot summer. There was even a newspaper article after they were born. They said there must be something in the water on Larkspur Close. They predicted...