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Ellie Cordwell seeks refuge with her grandmother, Pearl, in Cornwall after a breakup and the failure of her acting career. Burnt out, she needs rest and recuperation before she can figure out what comes next. Not one to be complacent, Ellie helps her grandmother out at the café. It's very differ...

I thought moving to this quiet cul-de-sac was the fresh start my husband and I needed, escaping the noise of our cramped flat in Hounslow. I left India and all that was familiar for a new life with him in England. But my husband works all hours, leaving me alone in a house that doesn't feel like ...

When skeletal remains are found beneath the fortified walls of an ancient castle on Northumberland's rugged coastline, DCI Kate Daniels calls on a forensic anthropologist to help identify the corpse. Meanwhile, newly widowed prison psychologist Emily McCann finds herself drawn into the fantasy of...

During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade hi...

Political Correspondent Gavan Reilly takes us inside Dáil Éireann to discover what it takes to survive in Ireland's political cauldron. With unprecedented access to political insiders, and lifts the lid on the corridors of power as never before.

On a sunny Saturday morning, three women from the exclusive gated community of Magnolia Close walk into their local police station. One by one, they all confess to the murder of their neighbour. The officer takes statements from Tasha, the overwhelmed mother also struggling under the weight of ca...

On a stifling summer's day, 11-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever....

Princess Grace of Monaco has invited the world-famous Forsyth Variety Company to perform at her annual high society ball. Monaco is in the heat of its preparations for the Grand Prix when the Forsyth family makes their emotional return to the city, stirring up painful memories for father Ed Forsy...

Paris, 1940. Golden light bathes the crumbling rooftop of the orphanage. I stroke my little sister's hair and comfort the other war orphans climbing into the rickety truck. We must leave the only home we have left, or the Nazis will find us.

Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house - a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedd...