PUPPET FOR A CORPSE

DOOMED TO DIE

When wealthy barrister Vanessa Broxton returns home unexpectedly early she finds her children’s temporary nanny murdered. Inspector Thanet suspects her estranged husband but gradually more suspects emerge.

ELEMENT OF DOUBT

Inspector Thanet investigates the murder of beautiful but unpleasant Nerine Tarrant, pushed over the second-storey balcony of her manor house to her death.

LAST SEEN ALIVE

While Alicia was a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had moved from Kent. When she turns up after twenty years she is welcomed back although nobody knows why she has returned. Within hours Inspector Thanet has to investigate her murder.