Jan Cramer

"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...

This is an epic true story of love and deception told by the woman whose life was destroyed by a seductive conman, Mark Acklom. The British Dirty John. Over eighteen months Carolyn — an educated, elegant woman in her early fifties, who was rebuilding her life in the Cotswolds after a job change and divorce — endured a hellish rollercoaster of emotions as the man she thought would become her second husband, a man she was led to believe was successful,...

England, 1940. After a sudden unexplained disappearance, Thomas Charles comes back into Cat Carlisle's life with the suggestion she leave London -- and the threat of bombs -- and move back to her childhood village in Cumberland. Back in her hometown Cat discovers her old friend, Beth Hargreaves, is suspected of murder. As Cat tries to prove Beth's innocence, she discovers a scheme of deception that affects the whole village. Can she uncover the family...

A shocking psychological thriller from bestselling author, J.A. Baker! Three troubled women. One deadly secret. Lissy and her daughter, Rosie, live a quiet life and keep themselves to themselves. But when shocking events at Rosie's school are revealed, their peaceful existence is shattered. Meanwhile, middle-aged women Erica and Beverley appear to have perfect lives, but behind closed doors, things are not all as they seem. All three women are...

Cassandra stands silent upon a ravaged battlefield, watching as the druids prepare the dead for the pyres, embers drifting up into the still winter darkness. She can barely breathe through the agony of her grief, but she cannot waste another second on tears. Because Londinium, the Caesar, the empire… all of it is still out there. The empire whose code she had followed, whose prince she had promised to marry, whose schemes she had been swept up...

Humorous travel book about moving to France. The true scents of Provence? Lavender, thyme and septic tank. There are hundreds of interesting things you can do in a bath but washing dishes is not one of them, nor what writer Jean Gill had in mind when she swopped her Welsh Valley for a French one. Keen to move out of the elephant's stomach, that stew of grey mists called weather in Wales, she offered her swimming certificate to a bemused Provencale...

Who killed DCI Mackie? DCI Lesley Clarke thinks she's close to solving her predecessor's murder. But when the body of a police officer connected to the crime turns up in the abandoned village of Tyneham, the case steps up a gear. And when someone she's close to is threatened by the killer, Lesley's quest for the truth becomes even more urgent. Can Lesley convince her senior officers of the truth, keep her team on track and protect her family? The...

A Very Coco Christmas is a delicious, stand-alone prequel short story to Robert Bryndza's smash-hit Coco Pinchard series, with a glorious cast of characters including Daniel's mother Ethel, sister Meryl - and a turkey called Jean Paul Belmondo... It's 1985, and eighteen-year-old Coco Pinchard is home in London for Christmas after her first term at Aberystwyth University. She has started to write, and fallen hopelessly in love with Daniel Pinchard,...

Since Coco Pinchard found first husband Daniel in bed with another woman, she hasn't just picked up the pieces: she's now a best-selling author married to her hunky soul-mate Adam. She feels stronger and wiser and surely the second time round she'll have learnt from her mistakes? But things aren't going quite according to plan... Adam has lost his job, Coco's grown-up son Rosencrantz seems to have derailed his life in spectacular fashion, and ex-mother-in-law...

One moment of carelessness. Four shattered lives. Literary agent Viola Matthews is sure she's met Katherine Baxter before. When her husband and bestselling novelist Samuel Morton introduces her to the quiet, unassuming woman he has offered to mentor, she knows their paths have crossed previously. The question is... where? As their worlds collide and the bond between Samuel and Katherine deepens, Viola realises she must take control. If her suspicions...