SJI Holliday

It's the most deadly time of the year... The festive season is in full swing - parties, mistletoe and Christmas crackers abound. In a hotel bar, a woman approaches you. Her party dress glitters with sequins. What you don't know is that your life is now in her hands - and there's only one thing...

It looks like a regular advent calendar. Until DC Becky Greene starts opening doors...and discovers a crime scene behind almost every one. The police hope it's a prank. Because if it isn't, a murderer has just surfaced - someone who's been killing for 20 years. But why now? And why has he sent...

Sophie is bored with her perfectly nice but deathly dull boyfriend, Matthew. Sensing he’s about to lose her, Matthew takes her on a last-ditch attempt trip to the seaside, hoping to rekindle their dying flames....

Carrie's best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they'd planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone....

Marie likes her life small and predictable: pulling pints, swapping banter with regulars, going home alone. Until Sergeant Davie Gray. He’s steady and decent – the sort of man you let yourself believe in.

When Gareth Maloney walks into Jo's bookshop in the sleepy Scottish town of Banktoun, the life she thought she'd rebuilt starts to unravel. Because Jo recognises this man.

When teenager Katie is found dead in her own bed, Banktoun does what small towns do best—it panics. Grief curdles into suspicion, rumours harden into certainty and one question drowns out all others—did her teacher do it?