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Penelope Keith stars in the much-loved sitcom about an aristocrat forced to part with her family home. When her husband's death leaves her financially strapped, Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton has no choice but to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate. With butler Brabinger in tow, she decamps to the tiny Old Lodge cottage, where she keeps a close - and disapproving - eye on the new squire: the nouveau riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale food magnate of Czech descent. 

The enemy is close to home in The Manor, a gripping gangland thriller from the top five bestseller Jessie Keane. Charlie Stone and Terry Barton have been blood brothers since the cradle. They grew up in the East End skimming along the bottom of the underworld, until Charlie took over the manor...

Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.

Book 1 The Alexander Wolfe SeriesBest selling author with sales of over one million booksChristmas at Caxton Manor promises to be a festive gathering of old friends, but the holiday cheer turns deadly when an uninvited guest, the ruthless industrialist Boris Bullen, is found murdered in the snow. Called in to discreetly investigate, the enigmatic Alexander Wolfe arrives to find himself embroiled in a perplexing mystery with echoes of a past crime.

'Had me right from the first line!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Totally Gripping!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1963. When Eleanor meets famous young poet, Lyndon Chance, he offers a way to flee her abusive father. In return, she must pretend to be Lyndon's wife. He takes her home to a Tudor...

What happens when someone accidentally summons a demon? They die and become a ghost. I didn’t believe in Heaven or Hell. I thought the pain would stop, and I’d taste sweet oblivion. But I was wrong. Hell does exist. It’s not just a place, but a person too. His name is Lynx. Night after night, day after day, I try to escape and break free of the cage I’ve been damned into. I can’t hide from him, and he can’t outrun me. I’m trapped in the manor with the monster who killed me.

When Jack’s car breaks down in the middle of a cross-country road trip, the mysterious house at the top of the hill is a beacon of hope. If he can borrow a phone to call for help, he’ll be on his way in no time. But someone - or something - has other plans. Soon, Jack finds himself trapped in a nightmare that defies logic, where a depraved killer on the loose is the least of his problems. Will Jack escape before it’s too late?

God rest ye merry gentlefolk, it's time for the traditional St Mary's Christmas jump - this year to Martingale Manor, where a murder mystery is unfolding... It's nearly Christmas and Leon has had a Brilliant Idea. A holiday - to enable a very reluctant Max to recover from her recently acquired...

High-powered Hollywood talent agent (and ex Christmas-hater) Mackenzie Monroe is back at it again this Holiday Season. After solving the double murder in Evergreen, Ohio, and getting a handsome new boyfriend, small-town lawyer Nick Tenenbaum, in the process, Mackenzie is ready to kick back and relax this Christmas.But Christmas has other plans for her. Nick's uncle John died suddenly and Mackenzie must accompany Nick to Garland, Ohio, and to Mistletoe Manor where John was the groundskeeper for years. Once there, Mackenzie is greeted by the extremely wealthy and very strange Mistletoe family ...

The Crimshaw family were once the caretakers of the prestigious Strathmore Estate. After the great blizzard of 1868, the townspeople found Elizabeth Crimshaw’s body hanging from the banister. Her young son and husband were declared missing and never found.

Ghostly whispers, shocking secrets, and a Pomeranian on the loose … England, 1941: Evie Harris doesn’t believe in ghosts—not even when she spots a glowing figure outside her bedroom window in the quiet village of Crofter’s Green. But when the same eerie spectre is seen by Lord Hawthorne, tied to a long-buried family scandal, even Evie starts to wonder if the past is haunting Hawthorne Manor. Before she can investigate, Lord Hawthorne is found dead at the bottom of his grand staircase. An accident? Not likely.

At night, the garden comes alive... Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's completely addictive and beautifully haunting gothic page-turner. Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar ­- but at what should have...

Faced with the challenge of building a new team, Sierra and Joshua accept a landmark paranormal activity case. After receiving Midas's blessing, the McBrides quickly call in favors to meet the deadline so the new owners of Wayland Manor can safely open the historic home to the public. The new paranormal investigators include Macie Graves, the sister of the late Jocelyn Graves. Everyone brings their A-game to discover who or what may be haunting the historic home, but will it be enough?

This collection was first published on LP in the 1980s. When Audrey fforbes-Hamilton's husband dies, and she is forced to leave Grantleigh Manor, she takes up residence at the nearby Lodge - from where she can keep a watchful eye on the Manor's new owner, Richard DeVere! Featuring the cast...

I thought I'd left my old life behind me. But then I found myself with a job I couldn't refuse—a counselor at Beldame, a mysterious manor with even more mysterious guests. These guests have problems, which they want me to solve. Professionally, I could deal with humans and their issues—my massive student debt was evidence of that. But these guests aren't human. At least not entirely. One thing's for certain—the boundaries are about to blur at Beldame. And I'll be plucking more than a few forbidden fruits from its garden.

Mysteries abound in Spindle Manor. For Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, the countryside inn is the last stop in a deadly hunt. Armed with a gaslamp and guns, she tracks an insidious beast that wears the skin of its victims, mimicking them perfectly. Ten guests reside within Spindle Manor tonight, and...

What do you get when you mix the newest luxury resort in small-town America with greed, rival billionaire families, and murder? The five-star unraveling of my life. Devon Donnelly is a former British secret agent with ties to clandestine organizations. He’s also the proud new owner of The Manor at Winslet, and the host of my wedding from hell. It may be a wedding, but there will be no marriage. It all started six weeks ago when my world turned on a dime. Or, since I’m a Madison, it turned on a cool billion.

The Aberdeen Manor estate has always been shrouded in mystery—a sprawling property with a dark history hidden within its brick walls and shadowed halls. For Maeve and Ethan Adams, their family home is more than just an inheritance; it’s the heart of their shared past, their bond, and their darkest fears. But when long-buried secrets resurface, and the horrifying legacy of their biological father, Eric Stephenson—a sadistic serial killer—is revealed, Maeve and Ethan are forced to confront a nightmare far more sinister than they could have imagined.

I ran away from Winslet years ago with a broken heart, a shattered future, and the knowledge I could never return. Not for my family. Not for the memories. And definitely not for Payne Deacon, the boy who owned my heart. He was my childhood best friend. My safe place. My first love. My everything. He knew every ugly piece of me and loved me anyway—right up until I destroyed us and didn’t look back. Now I’m home and trying to outrun the dangerous mess I left behind in New York. What I didn’t expect was the force of Payne. 

Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer.British Podcast Awards 'Best Fiction' Nominee 2020. If you like Widow's Bay, Hot Fuzz, and Only Murders In The Building, then Mockery Manor is for you.Mockery Manor is a full-cast production best enjoyed using headphones.