The Highland Fling by Meghan Quinn

Two friends in America, who are both looking for a fresh start due to relationship break-ups, see a 'help wanted' advert for two people to run a coffee shop for six months.  The shop is in the scottish highlands.  They apply and get the job. 

Bonnie and Dakota move to the small town of Corsekelly.  They fall in love with the town and fit in really well with the friendly locals.  The only exception is Rowan MacGregor the local handyman and son of the coffee shop owners.  He is forever moody, grumpy and cross.  But Bonnie finds him very attractive.  

The coffee shop needs a make-over as it is looking very dreary and the reviews given by the visitors on the local tour buses are really not good.  Bonnie sets out on a mission to make some changes. 

One Year Gone by Avery Bishop

The police are not really interested when 17 year old Wyn vanishes.  She is classed as a teenage runaway, they expect she will come back soon.  After a few days it becomes obvious that there are a few reasons why she may have run away and the police do little to look for her.  

One year later her mother Jessica receives a text message from Wyn asking for her help and saying that the man who has captured her may kill her.  Jessica had never given up hope of finding Wyn and she starts to ask questions and investigate what could have happened and where she may be.  Wyn says the man holding her wears a police badge and tells Jessica not to involve the police. 

Bring Them Home by DS Butler

Two 10 year old girls disappear from their primary school in Heighington, Lincolnshire.  DS Karen Hart investigates the case along with her new boss DI Scott Morgan. 

Karen is convinced that there are similarities with a case they had failed to solve 18 months before when a 19 year old woman vanished.  The difference in age is a concern, but Karen just can't let the subject drop.  

As they interview parents and local people who may be involved, the police unearth lots of lies they have been told.  Days go by and the girls are still not found, the likelihood of finding them alive is getting smaller and smaller. 

This is the first book in the Detective Karen Hart series.

Waiting to Begin by Amanda Prowse

This story goes backwards and forwards between Bessie's 16th birthday in August 1984 and her 53rd birthday in August 2021.

On the day of her 16th birthday Bessie has to collect her exam results.  She expects to do ok but is shocked when the results are received.  Later when she attends a school party she finds out some information that changes the course of her life.  

Now at aged 53, married and with a grown-up family, Bessie is looking back at her life and thinking about the hopes and dreams she had when she was young and the secrets she has kept for all that time. 

My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

Twenty years ago Sarah Crosswhite disappeared.  There was no body, but a murder trial took place and Edmund House was convicted and sent to prison.  Sarah's sister Tracy was never convinced of all the facts.  She had been a chemistry teacher at the local school but changed jobs and trained to be a homicide detective with Seattle PD to help with her own investigations into what had happened to Sarah.  

A body is found buried in a shallow grave in an area which had been flooded for many years.  It is confirmed to be Sarah Crosswhite.  

Tracy visits Edmund House in prison and helps him apply for an appeal.  She wants to get the case of her sister's murder re-opened and find the answers to the questions she has been searching for.  

This is the first in a series of Tracy Crosswhite stories. 

What You Did by Claire McGowan

Twenty five years after they met at University, six friends get together for a reunion.  Bill has been out of the country for years, only visiting to attend Cal and Jodie's wedding, but he has now returned to England. 

Ali hosts the evening at her family home.  She and Mike married before Cal and Jodie but Bill didn't return for their wedding.  They now have two children.  The other friend, Karen, who is Ali's best friend, has remained single.  She brings her teenage son with her to stay for the weekend.  

Late in the evening, after a meal and a lot of alcohol have been consumed in the garden, Karen staggers into the kitchen.  She is bruised and bleeding and claims that she has been attacked and raped by Mike.  

Ali has to decide if she believes her best friend Karen, or her husband of 20 years Mike.  They both tell different stories about what has happened.  

The trauma of the evening brings back memories of their last night at University when after the ball Martha was found murdered.  The murderer was never found. 

The Other Wife by Claire McGowan

After a one night stand with a man from work, Suzi and her husband Nick move out of London into an isolated cottage in the country.  Suzi has given up work, is pregnant and lonely.  Nick is controlling and always seems to know if she hasn't done things exactly as he requests.  He leaves instructions about what she is to cook and insists that she spends an hour each day walking the dog.  

Nora moves into the dilapidated cottage next door.  Suzi and Nora begin to make friends and Suzi feels that she may have someone she can confide in about what is happening in her life.  

Elle is a widow.  Her husband has recently died in a car crash.  She is struggling financially as all the money they had seems to have vanished.  She slowly unearths more information about her husband to find that he really wasn't the person she thought he was.