The Swinging Sixties have swung right past Constance Reason, living out her twilight years in the Sussex countryside. Then her louche nephew Sandy and his sinister boyfriend Ray turn up, swiftly followed by Iseult, Sandy's unworldy cousin, and melodramatic Aunt Leonora (a former leading light on the West End stage). Quite a crowd, even before Nick, a pop singer oozing Bohemian decadence, appears, entourage in tow. Then all it takes is a deep breath of sweet midsummer air and dope smoke to unleash some very strange goings-on. Suddenly everybody's having the time of their lives. But is it too much of a good thing Is it possible that things are so fabulous, someone might actually die

Fabulous Time

Literature & Fiction

Koning, Christina

Contemporary

Penguin

A Mild Suicide

Edinburgh 1977. The end of an era. The end of the postwar boom. The end of the sexual revolution. But for Saul and Catherine, postgraduate students meeting at a departmental party at the university, it seems like a beginning of sorts. Their attraction to one another is instantaneous, and the affair that follows at first seems all-absorbing - a heady mix of sexual desire and literary passions. But then the arrival of Saul's wife, Virginia, from New York, introduces darker notes of guilt and doubt, as the lovers find themselves increasingly enmeshed in their clandestine liaison. As the months pass, and tensions are stretched to breaking-point, it becomes clear that hard choices will have to be made. Other, real life, concerns must take precedence over those of romantic love - but at what a cost?

Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Genre Fiction

Allison Busby

Murder in Berlin: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Book 5 in the thrilling inter-war mystery series: Blind Detective.

Murder in Cambridge: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Book 6 in the thrilling inter-war mystery series, The Blind Detective.

Murder in Barcelona: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

First published as Line of Sight under A. C. Koning. London, summer 1927. Frederick Rowlands, a First World War veteran who was blinded at Ypres, is working as a switchboard operator in the City when an over-heard telephone conversation draws him into a murder case. From then on, his safe and conventional life, painstakingly reconstructed after the horrors he experienced in the trenches, is shaken to its very foundation. As Fred is drawn deeper into a web of lies and half-truths, he must rely on his remaining senses, as well as his remarkable memory, to uncover the shocking truth about the murder which threatens to undermine everything he holds dear.

The Blind Detective: The thrilling inter-war mystery series

First published as Game of Chance under A. C. Koning.1929. War veteran, Frederick Rowlands, has escaped the bustle of London to a small holding in Kent. Despite the challenges of his blindness, Fred has established a secure life for his family in the countryside. But things are not as they seem .One afternoon, Fred bumps into an old friend, Chief Inspector Douglas, who asks for his assistance in uncovering the killer of an alluring dancer. The serenity of Fred's life in Kent ends abruptly when he is transported back into the whirlwind of London, where he confronts his past life. Fred and Chief Inspector Douglas have little luck in solving the mystery of the dancer. Instead, they become entrapped in an ominous game of chance, where everything is at risk .

Murder in Regent's Park: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Murder in Dublin: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Dublin, 1939. As the Second World War looms ever closer, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands travels to the neutral territory of Ireland at the behest of Celia Swift, whose husband, Lord Castleford, has been receiving mysterious death threats. When a body is discovered, Castleford finds himself being accused of a murder he did not commit. As Castleford's trial begins, Rowlands must fight to save his friend's reputation - and his neck from the gallows. As a country teeters on the knife-edge of war and a man's life hangs in the balance, will the Blind Detective identify the true killer in time?

Book seven in the thrilling inter-war mystery series, Blind Detective.

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Fabulous Time

A Mild Suicide

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Murder in Berlin: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Murder in Cambridge: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Murder in Barcelona: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

The Blind Detective: The thrilling inter-war mystery series

Murder in Regent's Park: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Murder in Dublin: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)

Murder in Dublin: The thrilling inter-war mystery series (Blind Detective)