Reed Moreland must confront his painful past when he returns to Winterset, a Gloucetershire mansion shrouded in mystery, to save Anna Holcombe, the woman he cannot stop loving, from danger, drawing them both into a world of murder, legend, and passion.

London detectives Lambert and Hook are entangled in “a beguiling plot . . . and plenty of twists” as they dig through a dead girl’s past (Booklist).
 
Gloucestershire is suffering through a brutal heatwave, but things are getting even stickier for Superintendent John Lambert and Det. Sergeant Bert Hook. The body of lovely young university student, Clare Mills, has been found strangled,...

Alex Mullins knows she is one of the lucky ones. When a fatal coach crash at her school reunion killed several of her classmates, she was saved from a grisly fate. She is haunted by what she thinks she saw that night - a vision of a skeletal woman, known by the locals as the Bonehead - a woman who brings bad luck to all that see her. Now a police officer in Gloucestershire, Alex fights to overcome the past by helping other people. But when her path...

"An omnibus hardcover edition of the five short novels about Patrick Melrose by Edward St Aubyn-- Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, At Last -- with a new introduction by John Sutherland"-- Provided by publisher.