Summer at Skylark Farm by Heidi Swain

Having worked very long hours, always having to be on-call and not having had a days holiday over the last few years is starting to take its toll.  Amber realises that she needs to make changes in her life.  

Then her boyfriend Jake announces that he will be moving to the countryside to Skylark Farm in Wynbridge to help his elderly aunt who is struggling to run the farm on her own.  

Amber moves to Skylark Farm with Jake and they live in the farmhouse with Annie.  Amber discovers that Jake used to live in a house on the farm with Holly a previous girlfriend. Amber is determined to succeed in her new farm life and help to make changes to keep the farm going and get out of their financial problems.  Holly then reappears in Wynbridge.  

Dead Flowers by Nicola Monaghan

Ex-police and now a DNA Analyst, Dr Sian Love moves into her new home.  It is the old, and now closed, Loggerheads pub in Nottingham.  She has inherited the property from her Uncle Rob. 

Her dog is agitated and so together they go down into the cellar to check out the problem.  Sian finds the remains of two bodies.  She knows that she should leave the investigations to the police but she does not trust them.  

The story moves from the late 60s and early 70s to tell Bobby's story and back to 2017 to Sian and her investigations and the interference she expected from the police.  

Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer

The story is based on the true events of George Mallory attempting to climb Mount Everest. 

George falls in love with Ruth, but he also loves climbing, and he is given the opportunity, along with a small group of other experienced climbers, to attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest.  The group would be the first ever to climb that high.  If he reaches the summit George plans to leave a photograph of his wife at the top of the world.  

There are some tensions within the group, particularly with George Finch who believes they will need oxygen to be able to climb up to the very highest peak.  

The Break-Up Book Club by Wendy Wax

A group all regularly attend a book club meeting at Between the Covers bookshop.  They talk about the book they have just read, drink plenty of wine and share nibbles and cakes.  

Single mum and sports agent Jazmine invites her new PA Erin to attend a club meeting. 

Judith, who attends with her friend Meena, is beginning to question why it is she and not her husband Nate who has had to make all the sacrifices in their marriage. 

Sara, who also works occasional shifts in the bookshop, has her mother-in-law living with her whilst her husband is working away and they don't really get on very well as Dorothy makes no secret that she feels her son could have done much better for himself.  

Together the group support and encourage each other through the ups and downs in their lives.  

Home Stretch by Graham Norton

A small Irish community is devastated when, the day before a wedding, there is a car crash and of the six people in the car three are killed, one is very seriously injured and two are unhurt.  What should have been a wedding ceremony turns into a funeral.  Connor, one of the survivors, was the driver of the car and he can't remain living in the village where everyone is mourning their losses and accusing him. 

First he moves to Liverpool to work on a building site.  He later moves to London and then on to New York and makes a new life for himself.  He has never made any contact with his family back in Ireland since he left. 

Many years on Connor has contact with his sister and is encouraged to return home to visit the family.  There were many secrets that have been kept hidden since the car crash and slowly lives begin to unravel as the truth is shared.  

Come Again by Robert Webb

Following the sudden death of her husband Luke, Kate Marsden is really struggling in her grief and is also about to lose her job.  Her friends have been supportive but she keeps pushing them away.  

One morning she wakes up and finds that she is 18 years old again, is back in her room at university and it is the day that she first met Luke.  If she can meet him again and let him know about his health problem she may have a chance to save his life.  

A Parcel for Anna Browne by Miranda Dickinson

Working on a reception desk in a busy London office, Anna Browne regularly signs for delivered parcels.  One day a parcel is addressed to her.  It has no senders name and contains no message, just a really lovely gift.  Anna has no idea who the gift is from but it makes her happy.  

Over the next few weeks more gifts arrive.  All are anonymous but each one gives Anna more and more self confidence.  As Anna become more confident, others begin to notice this in her too.  It could even lead to a date with a colleague.  Everyone is really curious about the unexpected gifts and the identity of the sender.  

A Summer to Remember in Herring Bay by Angela Britnell

Essy Havers runs a business in Tennessee which tracks down all sorts of odd bits and pieces that her clients want to find.  When tasked with collecting sand and memorabilia from Cornwall she heads to Herring Bay to visit her Aunt Molly.  She also wants to find out why her mum left the village many years ago and won't return.  

She is immediately recognised in Herring Bay as being the daughter of Paula but people are not willing to talk about what happened when Paula left.  

Essy meets Ruan who is decorating Aunt Molly's kitchen.  He has recently returned to Herring Bay whilst having a break from his usual career as an architect in London.  Ruan's mum Vera takes an instant dislike to Essy.  Something has obviously happened in the past between the 2 families and Essy is determined to find out what that was. 

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

More than 20 years after Claire and Lydia's sister Julia disappeared another local girl is reported missing.  Claire and Lydia have not seen each other or spoken since Julia's disappearance. 

Claire and her husband Paul are attacked and mugged in a alleyway.  Paul is killed.  Whilst Claire is looking through boxes in her house after the funeral she finds lots of reports which have been commissioned by her husband.  Each year on a certain date he has asked a private investigator to follow and report back to him on different women.  One of the boxes holds information about Lydia.  

Claire contacts Lydia and together they try to find out the truth about what happened to Julia.  

The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman

When Claire Armstrong is diagnosed with early onset dementia her counsellor suggests that she starts to write a memory book.  

Claire is already beginning to forget the face of her husband and is scared that she will soon forget her children and that her youngest child Esther may not remember her as she was before she became ill.  

Claire, and all the members of her family, write information in her ever growing Memory Book to try to help her. 

Betrayed by Lisa Scottoline

When Iris is found dead in her car Judy Carrier and her Aunt Barb know that the death is suspicious and don't believe it was natural causes by a heart attack.  Then Judy finds a stash of money in her Aunt's garage which must have been hidden there by Iris.  

The police don't believe that it was murder so Judy starts to ask around in Iris's community to see why she was on that stretch of road and not at work and who may know something.  Judy upsets some dangerous people and then it is her life which is danger.  

Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

Maya was in a park with her husband when he was shot three times and killed.  Following the funeral a friend gave her a digital photograph frame with a hidden nanny-cam.  A few days later, whilst checking the camera footage, she sees her dead husband in the play room with her daughter. 

Maya asks one of her ex-army friends to help her to investigate.  Her husband's family seem to have a lot of secrets.