What Happened on Floor 34? by Caroline Corcoran

The newspaper team has a Day Editor and a Night Editor.  The two have never met.  They just leave messages for each other as they swap shifts.  

One morning Rose arrive in the office to take over the Day Editor job to find that Will, the Night Editor, has gone missing.  Will has been the Night Editor for 8 years but has now vanished without a trace.  There is just a short note left on the PC screen.  

In Will's absence Rose has to take over the Night Editor role.  Rose becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Will.  Being on her own on the 34th floor in the night is eerie.  Rose is sure that something has happened to Will and that by taking over the Night Editor job she will be able to find out what that is, but she also feels that whatever it is, she will be next.  

A Murder to Die For by Stevyn Colgan

Nasely holds an annual celebration event for Agnes Crabbe, a deceased murder mystery writer who used to live in the village.  Many people, both men and women, attend the event dressed as her lady detective Miss Millicent Cutter.  There are a number of Agnes Crabbe fan clubs and they all turn up and there is a lot of rivalries between them.  

One fan is found murdered, but with so many people dressed as Millicent Cutter it is difficult to decide who has been murdered and who the murderer is.  Then other fans and celebrities who are attending the event also go missing.  

Many of the fans take the opportunity to use their detective skills to try and work out who the murderer is and where the missing people have gone. The police are trying to manage the crime scene but with so many Miss Cutters in the village it becomes a bit tricky.  

A Witch Hunt in Whitby by Helen Cox

Eleven days after finding a purple 'V' painted on the front door, the person in that house is murdered.   The first victim had cleaned the paint off their door and so the police didn't immediately realise there was a connection and that they had a serial killer on the loose in Yorkshire.  Each murder victim had an association with the occult and was found with 2 puncture marks on their neck and had lost some blood.  It was as if they were the victim of a vampire.   

Private investigators Kitt Hartley and Grace Edwards have 11 days to solve the murders and to keep Ruby Barnett safe after she has found a V painted on her door.  They head to Whitby as that is the central point from all the murder locations. 

Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio by Mario Giordano

Unexpectedly Poldi's estranged husband, John Owenya from Tanzania, appears on her doorstep.  John wants Poldi to help him find his half brother who travelled to Sicily with $10M of stolen money and has now disappeared.   Both the Tanzanian and Sicilian mafia mobs are looking for him too. 

The only clue is a postcard with a phone number and the name handsome Antonio.  Almost everyone that Poldi comes across in the course of her investigations is called Antonio.  

Poldi needs a car and so steals a Maserati and gets her nephew to drive her around Sicily with her brother in law as the navigator.  As ever Poldi put her own life in danger and has a couple of visits from Death with his clipboard.  The nephew is still trying to write his novel.  

The Holiday Swap by Zara Stoneley

It comes as a massive surprise to Daisy when her boyfriend Jimmy suggests that they get married and have children.  She panics and realises that perhaps that isn't what she wants.  

Her school friend Florence, who has moved to live in Barcelona, seems to have the perfect life with the perfect job and the perfect boyfriend.  When Oli takes Flo to Paris for the weekend she is convinced that she is going to get a romantic proposal. She is in for a surprise.  

As both Daisy and Flo need to get away from their partners and have a change of scenery whilst they think about what they really want in life, they decide to house swap with each other for a few weeks.   

Daisy loves being in the sunshine and is taken around Barcelona by Flo's friend Javier.  Flo is looking after Daisy's animals in cold and snowy England and is constantly laughed at, but also helped, by Daisy's next door neighbour Hugo.  

Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano

This is the second book in the Auntie Poldi series. 

The water supply has been turned off and Poldi is convinced it is the Mafia who are targeting her.  

A district attorney is found dead, having been hit on the head by a wine bottle.  Poldi decides to visit the vineyard who produced the wine and there she meets a local fortune teller who is very soon found dead too.  She can't resist getting involved and trying to find out who killed her and why.  As usual she drags members of her family into her snooping too.  Poldi puts her own life in danger and has to ask Montana's girlfriend for help.  As before, her nephew visits regularly and is trying to write a book about the family but it is turning into a crime mystery of Poldi's antics.  

The Perfectly Imperfect Woman by Milly Johnson

When she was a small child Marnie Salt used to run errands for the old lady next door and help her with her baking.  Marnie found out that cheesecake exists and helped to make them.  

As an adult Marnie is not very lucky in love, she always seems to find the wrong men.  After another disastrous relationship has abruptly ended Marnie meets Lilian in an on-line baking chat room. In a drunken hazy Marnie shares a lot of information about her life with Lilian who then invites her to attend a fate in her village in the Yorkshire Dales.  

Marnie goes along and ends up staying in one of the cottages, temporarily, and sets up her own cheesecake making business from the cottage.  She and Lilian quickly become really good friends.  Then unexpectedly Marnie has not choice but to stay in the village and help to turn its fortunes around.  This makes her very unpopular with some of the locals.  

My Husband's Son by Deborah O'Connor

An unusual course of events have led to Heidi and Jason meeting each other and becoming a couple.  Heidi's daughter was abducted and murdered.  A year later Jason's son went missing and he has never been found.  

On her way home from work one day Heidi stops off at an off-licence to buy a bottle of wine and sees a young boy she is sure is Jason's son Barney.  Jason goes to the off-licence and says it is not him, he doesn't match the age progression pictures that have been produced.  Heidi just can't get the boy out of her mind and so goes back to have another look on her own.  Heidi keeps talking about the boy but Jason doesn't want to know.  

Heidi refuses to give up.  She tries to find out as much as she can about the boy and the man who is looking after him.  She puts herself, her job and her marriage at risk as she is so certain the boy Barney and wants to get him back.