Helen FitzGerald

Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She's a sweet girl who has spent her teenage years in a fearful, cautious bubble. She's never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within six weeks she's done all three. A group of backpackers break into an abandoned London townhouse seeking a rent-free life of debauchery. They don't realise someone's already there: A terrified woman bound and gagged in the basement. The Devil's Staircase...

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer, dealing with some of Glasgow?s worst cases and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he?s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for men?s rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary?s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and...

He's gone, and telling the truth won't bring him back. When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what...