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Merrily Watkins is Paranormal Advisor, or ‘exorcist’ as it was once known, in the Diocese of Hereford. When a medieval corpse in the old city is uncovered by a storm, she has to work with the police and other experts to decipher its secrets.

The fourth in Fullerton’s Ration Book series is set in wartime London’s East End. Doting mother Cathy quietly rejoices when her abusive husband is declared MIA, and as the Blitz rages on finds herself faced with a fresh opportunity of love.

Amid the gang violence of early 19th-century New York, a young girl has been brutally murdered. As Marshall Justy Flanagan and teacher Kerry O’Toole separately seek the killer, they discover a web of political conspiracy and criminal enterprise.

In this psychological thriller, working-class Louisa and her sophisticated friend Victoria form a close bond with the art teacher at their elite Catholic school; then he and Louisa vanish. Years later, a journalist investigates the disappearance, and long-buried secrets resurface.

This closely plotted Scandinavian thriller, and series finale, follows Detective Henrik Holme as he attempts to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that a murder cold case from 2001 is linked to the recent death of an eccentric blogger and the abduction of a Lottery-winner's grandson.

Merrily Watkins is Paranormal Advisor, or ‘exorcist’ as it was once known, in the Diocese of Hereford. When a medieval corpse in the old city is uncovered by a storm, she has to work with the police and other experts to decipher its secrets.

In the criminal underworld of New York in 1799 Justy Flanagan, a former lawyer and police marshal, sets out to hunt down the man who murdered his father, a quest which involves confronting the corruption of Wall Street and government officials.

When a teenager falls from Ludlow’s castle tower, the boy’s father suspects foul play. Asked to investigate, Merrily discovers a worrying obsession with suicide and the afterlife in the ancient town.

Set in 8th-century Scandinavia, the second of Brun’s Wanderer Chronicles follows Erlan, bodyguard to the Sveärs’ king, and the king’s daughter Lilla. With the Danes threatening war, the pair must choose between their duty and their love for each other.

Merrily’s daughter Jane has a part-time job at Stanner Hall, a crumbling Gothic hotel, where the Sherlock Holmes-obsessed owner hosts murder mystery weekends. Behind the make-belief, Merrily detects a disturbing reality.

Newly appointed as Deliverance Consultant by the Bishop of Hereford, Merrily Watkins is off to an ominous start: an ancient church is desecrated, a saint’s tomb is smashed and a body is found in the River Wye.

In Hay-on-Wye, a couple are setting up a new pagan bookshop; meanwhile, a man is found drowned near the town. Investigating David Hambling’s death, DI Bliss is alarmed by his strange library and calls on the expertise of the exorcist.

Merrily, in Underhowle to conduct a funeral, intervenes when the village is suspected of being the home of a psychotic serial killer, and an ambitious DI links the village deaths to the sickening crimes of Fred West.

Amid the gang violence of early 19th-century New York, a young girl has been brutally murdered. As Marshall Justy Flanagan and teacher Kerry O’Toole separately seek the killer, they discover a web of political conspiracy and criminal enterprise.

Grace catches glimpses of her dead boyfriend, Henry, everywhere. She dismisses the sightings as a manifestation of her grief, but when she meets a man who is the mirror image of her lost love, she must untangle his past from her future.

Sent to a village on the Welsh border to make peace between the local fundamentalist priest and a pagan couple who have bought a ruined church nearby, Merrily uncovers the sinister dynamics of Old Hindwell.

In this romantic comedy set at Christmas, Eve breaks up with her cheating fiancé, meets a new man and learns how to cook, but can she find out why an angry goose is stalking her boat?

When Alexander Palmer opened his pharmacy in Victorian Edinburgh, Rebecca, his new wife, looked forward to a prosperous and genteel future. Instead, Alexander’s infidelities, sexual desires, greed and his invention – heroin – leads them both into a world of dark passions and addiction.

Will Hurley, Dublin’s ‘Canal Killer’, is ten years into his prison sentence when the body of a young woman is pulled from the Grand Canal. It looks like a copycat murder and detectives want to speak to Will, but he will only talk to one person: his girlfriend of ten years ago.