M K TURNER
Standalone Novels
Christos
My wife left me for a man considered to be my friend, and my mother thinks I ran away from what was left of my life. Nothing could be further from the truth. I drove away with a smile on my face. I was free. Free to start a new job, a new life, and hopefully find a new love. A few weeks in, I meet the drop-dead gorgeous, Cassie Henderson, ‘Actor and Entertainer’, and I’m smitten. But she is fighting me tooth and nail, and I have a fat lip and bloody nose to prove it. She is the most infuriating woman I have ever met. She never listens and is trying to wreck everything before it even gets started. Now I find out I have to share a house with her. Things might be looking up.
Cassie
I’m an actor who Iives in a lovely house and a fiercely independent girl about town. Single and loving it. Only I’m not. I’ve got little or no work to look forward to, I can barely afford food once I’ve paid the rent, and as to being single and loving it, the best I can say is I’m single. Love doesn’t come into it. Nor will it. Been there, tried that, it doesn’t work, and I’ll fight anyone who tries to sneak in. Or so I thought. That was before I met H. I let him in, and he led me on by not telling me the truth. Now all I want to do is get him out of my life. But guess what? He’s my new housemate.
Of all the houseshares in all the world, he had to walk into mine. The question is: What am I going to do about it?
Charlie Birch is dead. A knife, thrust into his chest, has effortlessly sliced through his right ventricle, quite literally breaking his heart, which given his past behaviour was perhaps a fitting end.
An unexpected chain of events had placed a desperate Charlie and many of the Middle Mound villagers in the White Hart pub that morning. Then Charlie decided to hold them all hostage. That was his last mistake.
DS Sally Carter had been sent to Middle Mound to investigate an abandoned bus and several missing villagers but instead finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. Having grown up in the village, she knows many of the suspects from her youth. All the clues are there but will she catch the killer?
Who killed Charlie Birch? is the first in the Murder Tour series.
A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course!
The Mistro family have a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a six-hundred-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail . . . well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.
“This has everything in it, laughs, drama, danger and a conundrum!”
St Joseph’s is a picturesque hotel in a tranquil setting on the Cornish coast and nestles in the cleavage of the surrounding cliffs. It’s late June and guests arrive for a relaxing summer weekend. But the weather changes and a raging storm brings a flood that traps both staff and guests at the hotel. Five women hoping for a soothing spa break find themselves caught up in the murder and mayhem that ensues.
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Several of those trapped have ulterior motives for being at the hotel, some of them sinister! When a body is discovered not only is it necessary for DI Barlow to apprehend the murderer, he must also discover the identity of the victim.
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And the strangest thing? The murder weapon!
Lucy James goes out to celebrate the end of her final exams at university. It’s a decision she soon comes to regret, because the next day she has to attend an important interview, but she can’t remember why. Having recently passed the stringent vetting procedure for a top recruitment agency, she thinks she is probably meeting a prospective employer. Or is it yet another member of the agency? Deciding to wing it, she turns up and meets Gloria.
Gloria naturally expects Lucy to know why she is there, and almost immediately gives Lucy her first client. Lucy is horrified, but, concerned she might blow her chance if she confesses her lack of knowledge, she sets off on her first assignment. Another two clients are quickly added to her case load, and she finds herself involved with blackmail, missing persons, and a possible murder. Convinced she is working for a covert government agency, Lucy ploughs on with the job. Until one day, out of blue, she is forced to make a decision that could affect everything she has ever known.
And having made her choice, she is devastated when it is denied. Nothing can ever be the same again.
