To die for by Tessa Barclay - F
In London to organise a series of concerts for the Spitalfields Festival, Greg Crowne has befriended a pretty Polish countess, Marcelina. When Marcelina is found dead in the Museum of Music Heritage, Greg is drawn into the police investigation which takes him to Paris and Scotland.

Laced by Carol Higgins Clark - MF
P.I. Regan Reilly has just married Jack & headed off to Hennessy Castle for a romantic honeymoon in Ireland. It proves far from relaxing when they stumble across the mysterious tombstone of May Reilly. A talented lacemaker, she made a tablecloth for a banquet at the castle but was never paid and has haunted the castle ever since.

Sing as we go by Margaret Dickinson - F
Kathy Burton has a tough life on the family farm, not least because her father is determined that she will marry a local boy who she doesn't care for. Her escape takes her to Lincoln where she starts work in a glamorous department store, and there falls in love with Tony Kendall, a notorious womaniser.

Fly in the Ointment by Anne Fine - F
As Lois takes her second - and redeeming - chance at love, she finds herself on a collision course with a society that claims to support and protect. She lays her plans, and suddenly it seems that all those years of nurturing her own deep-frozen heart may not have been so wasted after all.

The Penny Bangle by Margaret James - F
When 19-year-old munitions worker Cassie Taylor leaves Birmingham to become a land girl in Dorset, she assumes she will be in for a quiet and boring time, but when she arrives at the Denham family's farm, she meets Robert and Stephen Denham, army officer twins still convalescing after being wounded at Dunkirk.

The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller - F
Love came late to Meri. She met Nathan at 36, he moved in a month later, & they married a month after that. Now they are swapping their comfortable Midwestern existence for life in a college town in New England, a house of their own, a more responsible teaching job for Nathan - a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants!

The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore - F
Miranda and David move out of London into a country house with a magical garden - Miranda insists on tottering across the wet lawn in kitten heels, David is never there, and the kids won't tear themselves away from the telly. Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives and begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he?

Distant Horizons by Rowena Summers - F
'Distant Horizons' continues the story of Alice Chase and her family in the days leading up to the Second World War. It is the early days of the Phoney War and Alice is awaiting the birth of a fifth child and with the arrival of two young evacuees it seems that the war is finally changing life in the Somerset village of Bramwell.