Judith Cutler

Sophie Rivers, inner-city college lecturer and amateur singer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham: a job she enjoys, a close circle of friends. Then, suddenly, things go badly wrong. One of her students is murdered on college premises; worse still, her best friend George meets a tragic end on the site of the newly built Music Centre.Everyone believes his death was an accident – everyone except Sophie. Determined to find his killer, she starts asking...

The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer's afternoon is helping at a church fête. However, Robin, the vicar, is an old friend, so Lina ends up selling bric-a-brac. But a harmless event turns into a crisis when someone tries to steal a tatty old snuff box. Tatty it might be, but it's valuable enough for the would-be thief to attack Griff, her dear mentor, to frame Lina for a crime, and to kill an old friend. And maybe other...

Driving across Dartmoor, Lina Townend finds two men robbing a medieval church. Outraged, she manages to stop them--only to discover that it's not just in Devon they are working. Safely back in Kent, Lina makes some new friends--but realizes she may have made new enemies too, or else stirred up some very dangerous old ones.

When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend's antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina's instincts tell her to avoid the sale. Suddenly, wherever she goes, Lina sees the supposedly rare white horses. Something strange is afoot, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. Soon, with her business partner Griff laid up in hospital and her relationship with her boyfriend Morris floundering, Lina...

Retired police detective Fran Harman discovers that someone doesn't like her digging up the past when she re-opens a twenty-year-old cold case.