Loveday Mysteries

Believing the remote Black Swan Inn, with its idyllic waterside location, could provide a romantic feature for her Cornish magazine, editor Loveday Ross, accepts an invitation to interview Marika Sweet. But the inn is not the idyllic creak-side hostelry Loveday had imagined.It's a dirty, derelict, boarded up building - and there is no sign of Marika. A friendly neighbour, Millicent Sproat, reveals the inn is now in the hands of notorious local criminals, the Clemo brothers.Unable to resist exploring the old place, Loveday sneaks in. She does not see her attacker approaching from the shadows. A pain sears through her head as the blackness engulfs her and she crashes to the floor. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Inspector Sam Kitto, is concerned for her safety, and warns her to leave the unsavoury brothers for the police to deal with, but that's not Loveday's way. Then there's a murder ... and more people start getting hurt. Could the Clemo's old sailing ship, the Arabella, provide the key to solving the mystery?

Anonymous letters arrive at Ellie's Cornish cottage - each one containing words cut from the pages of her debut novel. At first, she dismisses them as the work of an overzealous admirer. Big mistake!The messages grow sinister, mirroring her plot with chilling precision. Ellie realizes this is not the work of a fan. Someone is methodically bringing her fiction to life - where the next chapter ends in murder.Desperate, she turns to her friend Loveday for help. But when a body is discovered, the evidence points to Ellie.As Loveday's partner, DCI Sam Kitto, builds what appears to be an airtight case against her friend, her loyalty is torn between the man she loves and the friend she refuses to believe capable of murder.Loveday must unravel the truth before the killer writes the final chapter - one in which someone else will pay with their life

It's a snowy December night and Jago Tilley is making an unsteady way home from the village pub. He doesn't know that by morning he will be dead!It falls to DI Sam Kitto, of Devon and Cornwall Police, to investigate the old fisherman's brutal murder, and once again magazine editor, Loveday Ross, finds herself involved in her policeman boyfriend's case.Suspicion falls on the dead man's disreputable nephew, Billy Travis. But what is his relationship with St Ives gallery owner, Zachariah Paxton-Quinn?Loveday's boss, Merrick Tremayne, is acting distinctly out of character. Could his strange mood have something to do with her discovery of a burglar rummaging through the magazine's old archive files?And then there is the glamorous Dutch boutique owner, Sabine De Fries. What is her connection with the Tremayne family?

Rufus Teague was a botanist, documenting rare plants on Cornwall's ancient island of St Michael's Mount - but his real discovery was far more dangerous than any exotic species. ...And it led to hs death.Despite the advice of her partner, Detective Inspector Sam Kitto, magazine editor Loveday Ross, can't stay away from an investigation. Her journalist instincts scream that there's more to this death than meets the eye. When she and her friend Cassie uncover a coded secret message in the Mount's gardens, the mystery deepens.Magazine sailing columnist Brian Cantina's moonlight photography expedition reveals another shocking truth: under cover of darkness, groups of men are being landed in isolated Cornish coves.And then a second corpse is discovered in the same cove that Cantina had photographed. News that this dead man was an illegal immigrant confirms Sam's worst fears - a human trafficking network is operating in Cornwall, and the criminals are prepared to kill to protect their lucrative business.Loveday and Cassie are drawn deeper into the conspiracy, when they trace the traffickers to their remote headquarters. Will the operation be smashed and the criminals captured? Or will more suspicions emerge?Did the traffickers murder Rufus Teague, or is there someone else out there who wanted the botanist dead?Read Requiem for a Killer Moon and let the truth unfold…Read less