Girl A by Abigail Dean

Lex Gracie, 'Girl A', is now a lawyer in New York.  She has to return to England as her mother has died in prison and she needs to collect the belongings and execute the will.  

Lex and her brothers and sisters were held imprisoned in the family home on the Yorkshire Moors.  Lex shared a room with her sister Evie.  They were bound to their beds and locked in their room.  The children were all abused and starved.  At the age of 15 Lex managed to escape and the children were all rescued.  

The story goes backwards and forwards, reliving the events of her childhood, and now meeting up with her siblings and agreeing what will happened to the family home which has been left derelict for many years.  

I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry

Poppy Page lives with her husband, 2 daughters and mother in law Betty.  She has always been faithful to her husband, until she meets up with her old boyfriend Matthew Gordon, from more than 20 years ago, at a Christmas party.  

During the book text appears from letters written by Betty to Poppy.  They explain what has happened during Betty's life and how her marriage to Jock was not happy and how he had manipulated her and made her suffer over many years.  

Poppy initially felt sorry for Matthew as his wife is very ill.  But then he starts to threaten her and she realises how dangerous he can be and how one silly mistake could cost her her whole family. 

Both Betty and Poppy are being made to suffer for one mistake and poor judgement.  

The Ambleside Alibi by Rebecca Tope

This is the second book in the Lake District Mysteries series. 

Simmy Brown, the local florist, receives an order to deliver flowers to a local address. The message on the flowers reads 'Happy birthday from a granddaughter you never knew you had'.  After delivering the flowers she heads to a local coffee shop for a quick break.  

The family who received the flowers want to track down who sent them.  It has caused a lot of unrest within the family.  Simmy won't give up the name, as she had promised she wouldn't when the flowers were ordered.  At the same time another local woman is found murdered in her home.  A men she saw and briefly spoke to in the coffee shop gives Simmy's name as his alibi to prove that he couldn't have been the murderer. 

With the help of her young friend Ben, and assistant Melanie, Simmy tries to work out who sent the flowers and what the relationships are.  At one point she gets too close to the truth and her own life is put at risk.  

The Windermere Witness by Rebecca Tope

This is book one in the Lake District Mysteries series. 

Following her divorce, Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown, has moved to Windermere on Bowness in the Lake District where she sets up a florist shop which is near to her parents who run a B&B in Ambleside.  

She has provided the flowers for the wedding of the daughter of a local millionaire.  After delivering the flowers to the hotel she sees and speaks to the bride's half brother Markie Baxter.  Within a few hours he is found murdered in the lake.  Simmy is initially asked to look after a younger daughter of the family, and then the family want to know what she and Markie talked about as she may have been one of the last people to speak to him.  

A lunch meeting is set up for Simmy to talk to the bride's father, but as she is about to get out of her car he is also murdered.  This is also witnessed by Ben, a local 17 year old school boy.  Simmy and Ben share all the information they know and try to work out who murdered the two men. 

From Shetland with Love by Erin Green

Following the death of her grandfather, Jemima is handed the keys to his allotment.  As she is currently taking a sabbatical from her job, she decides to take over the allotment and spend her time working on the land.  She also has chickens to look after. 

At the same time Melissa comes to the top of the allotment waiting list and is given the opportunity to take over an allotment which has not been cared for for a long time.  Her husband works away on an oil rig and she works part time at the local college, so she has a few days each week free to try to tame the allotment and start to grow her own produce.  

Both women are taken under the wing of Dottie, an 80 year old who only grows flowers on her allotment and dusts at the local Manor House one day a week.  

Many of the folks on the allotments have a lot to say about what the ladies should and shouldn't be doing and how to go about growing prize winning vegetables.  

The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson

Mabel's husband Arthur suddenly dies and Mabel is left alone.  Arthur always liked to write lists.  He leaves one list unfinished.  This prompts Mabel to write her own list and to try to finish the last list that Arthur wrote which is 'Find D'.  

Mabel is convinced that, if finished, this would have read 'Find Dot'.  Dot was her best friend when she was growing up, and the girlfriend of Arthur's best friend who was Mabel's brother.  

Whilst she is coming to terms with the loss of Arthur and being on her own, Mabel meets a lot of new people, all of whom have their own problems and need help.  Mabel writes her own list of the things she needs to achieve to help them all.