Portugal, Madeira and The Azores

Contemporary fiction. When a successful songwriter tries to leave her sadness behind, and mend a broken heart by taking a series of pet-sitting jobs around the globe, she can't believe her luck when she lands a job in a luxurious villa on the island of Madeira. But her plans to spend time on her own are rudely disrupted with the arrival of an unexpected house guest, and she is forced to confront regrets, sorrow and what she really wants from the future.

Lisbon. Thriller. A woman wakes up to discover that her new husband is missing from their hotel room. With the local police and Embassy slow to respond she finds herself in a race against time. And the one person she can ask for help is the one person she does not wish to talk to.

Lisbon. A body lies slumped in a stationary train. A high-profile man who appears to have died from repeatedly throwing himself against the glass - and it seems there many have been other forces at play. A small number of the population are classified as Gifted. Along with the label comes stigma and suspicion. In a city divided by prejudice, Gifted Inspector Isabel Reis is hiding her own secret whilst risking everything to find the killer.

Historical fiction/suspense. Lisbon/London/Toronto/Washington. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had spoken to her - about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder and, most worryingly, her grandmother. His story was old, he had told her, but still deserving of justice. Soon Kate is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her back into her grandmother's mysterious war-time past and across the Atlantic as she tries to retrace the dead man's footsteps. Finding out the truth is not so simple, however, as only a few people are still alive who know the story.and Kate soon realises that her questions are putting their lives in danger. Stalked by an unknown and sinister enemy, she must use her tough journalistic instinct to find the answers from the past in order to have a future.

Historical fiction. 1506. The streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a naked girl at his side. Abraham was a renowned kabbalist, a practitioner of the arcane mysteries of the Jewish tradition at a time when the Jews of Portugal were forced to convert to Christianity. Berekiah, a talented young manuscript illuminator, investigates his uncle's murder, and discovers in the kabbalah clues that lead him into the labyrinth of secrets in which the Jews sought to hide from their persecutors. A challenging mystery and a powerful indictment of the evils of intolerance.

Historical crime fiction.  1941. Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen’s war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler’s blitzkrieg. Late 1990s, Lisbon. Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But there’s an older, greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation, and in his final push for the truth, Ze must face the most chilling opposition.

A memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Diana is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and her career is stalled—when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes are active, and the people celebrate festas to ease their saudade, a longing so deep that the Portuguese word for it can’t be fully translated. Years later, California is in a terrible drought, the wildfires seem to never end, and Diana finds herself still dreaming of those islands and the chuva—a rain so soft you don’t notice when it begins or ends. With her troublesome Labrador retriever, Murphy, in tow, Diana returns to the islands of her dreams only to discover that there are still things she longs for—and one of them may be a most unexpected love.