Severn House Publishers imprint: 631 books

An engaging historical tale from a much-loved author - London, 1890. Singer Rose Paton is confident that, with her looks, youth, and talent, she’s destined for greater things. When mysterious stranger Marcus Bennley asks her to sing at his sister’s birthday party, as his present to her, she accepts...

With an art deco lido under threat of closure by a ruthless property developer, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open. When the lead campaigner is discovered dead, suspicion falls on the developers. No sooner have DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy...

Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are facing their most challenging cold case yet: the year-old murder of a female student. When, a year after she went missing, the body of 19-year-old student Elizabeth Williams is discovered in a field near her college, Dr Kate Hanson and her colleagues...

The eagerly-awaited third novel in the Family Feud series - When Sarah Jenkins meets Connor Searles she is truly attracted to him. But Connor has just joined a rock n roll band, and Sarah cant help feeling jealous when she sees newspaper pictures of him with other girls. Connors band proves to be...

A past crime causes new murder in the latest intriguing Kate O’Donnell mystery Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray Robertson, who hasn’t been seen for several days. The case takes on a greater urgency when a battered body is discovered...

The death of a young girl leads Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard and Kate O’Donnell into a hotbed of simmering tensions, violence and threats in sixties’ Soho. London, 1964. At three a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard is called to a club in Greek Street where...

A Lambert and Hook mystery - Martin Beaumont is the uncompromising owner of a successful Gloucestershire vineyard. He has built the company steadily over the years, with a small but dedicated team by his side. However, he sees Abbey Vineyards as his company, to do with as he pleases, much to the chagrin...

Skeletons have a habit of revealing themselves eventually . . . When a human skeleton is discovered on the boundary of a 20-year-old property development, it seems there are a large number of people who may know the identity of the corpse and how it got there. But twenty years is a long time...

The fake diamond in Dilys Holland’s engagement ring implies that all is not well in her marriage, and the Holland family matriarch, Sybil, calls on Bea Abbot for help. Bea soon discovers that Dilys and her little girl live in fear of her abusive husband, a man called Benton with whom Bea has already...

An Ellie Quicke Mystery - Ellie Quicke is still inclined to act hastily, despite husband Thomas' steadying influence. When she took in a young rape victim, she knew the commitment might become a burden, but she didn't expect it to become an invitation to further violence. Mia's best friend Ursula...

Bea Abbot is back - Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't 'do' murder. There's nothing sinister about charity-worker Zander's request for her to join him on a visit to his former boss Denzil's widow. But Zander had exposed the financial scam Denzil was running - after which Denzil had, unexpectedly,...

Ellie Quicke has her work cut out when past wrongdoings put the future of a child she’s grown to love at stake Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper’s brilliant but difficult young son. Mikey had been conceived at a party...

Ellie Quicke finds you can choose your friends but not your family. Poppy’s wealthy father hadn’t liked the look of the men whom his twin daughters intended to marry, and had set them up in the Magpie fashion boutique to ensure they would be able to support themselves; at the same time...

The mean streets of South London are a dangerous place for a young girl to walk at night . . .|The mean streets of South London are a dangerous place for a young girl to walk at night . . . A notorious council estate in South London has hit the headlines – again. A punter has been stabbed to death...