Joan Aiken

'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation. He had never planned a murder before ... Only sheer necessity was making him do it…

Married to an ambitious but feckless architect and living in the pretentious show home they can ill afford, Jane is forced to return to work,…

When Charles is given just twelve months to live, his doctor sister takes him to a small Cornish village to end his days. They are…

A beautiful Cornish coastal village is the setting for a highly sinister conspiracy involving a kidnapped baby, mysterious monks and an almost irresistible new perfume...…

A child in danger, an isolated house - and a killer on the loose... 'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it…

Annette, an increasingly amnesiac magazine editor who has inherited an unexpected fortune, leaves London for a new life in a cottage in the country, but…