Laura Marshall

Shortlisted for the 2025 CWA Whodunnit Dagger 'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?' 'No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly. The garden...the...body... we need you, Penny.' For women of Penny's generation, being on hand for elderly parents is just part of life. But for Penny, things have become a little...

THE SUNDAY TIMES & NO.1 EBOOK BESTSELLER 'Twisty and gripping' — Erin Kelly 'I read it in one go' — Marian Keyes 'I loved it' — Rachel Abbott * Maria Weston wants to be friends with me. Maybe that had been the problem all along: Maria Weston had wanted to be friends with me, but I let her down. She's...

Three best friends. One life-changing choice. Kiss Angela runs a dating agency and is an expert at connecting over fifties looking for the one. Marry Sara has lost her husband and is forcing herself to speed-date in the hope of finding love again. Kill Helen lives with her controlling partner, Brian - but she's been keeping his abusive behaviour a...

Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . . We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends - and one new face. By the end of the weekend, my husband is found dead. But how can I mourn him, when on the day of his funeral...

Seven of us arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends—and one new face. By the end of the weekend, a terrible accident will leave my husband dead. But how can I mourn him, when on the day of his funeral I discover he was having an affair? The only...

If he isn't guilty . . . Who is? 'Addictive' — Caz Frear 'Brilliant, compelling' — Karen Hamilton 'Compulsive' — Rachel Abbott Sasha North has gone missing. Everyone says she's run away, but I know better. We've been best friends since we were teenagers, since Sasha swept into the neighbourhood and brought colour to my life. Until a brutal attack...

It has been 25 years since a local man raged through the small town of Hartstead, shooting eleven people dead at random. Cassie Coleman was only four when Travis Green killed his last victim: the father she never knew. Cassie has spent her life trying to escape her past, but she is forced to return home when her mother starts...