Ellie Quicke finds herself the target of a local cult-like church, but are their motives truly Christian or is there darkness at their heart?Ellie is desperate to find someone to look after their elderly housekeeper, whose health is failing. But employing a carer found by Ellie's difficult daughter, Diana, proves to be a mixed blessing when Ellie returns from a trip to America to find that carer Claire has implemented a number of bizarre changes to the Quicke household routine.Claire, is heavily involved in 'the Vision', a local church with a charismatic, powerful pastor, who – seemingly coincidentally – is looking to Ellie for financial help in his current project, housing reformed addicts. But Ellie is suspicious – and more so, when details of Claire's chequered past comes to light. Can Ellie trust Claire and Pastor Ambrose?Ellie investigates and doesn't like what she finds . . .

The body of a young girl is found in next door's neglected garden, to the horror of the occupiers, who are friends of Ellie's. How long has the body been there, and is it someone who once lived there? Ellie seems to be the only person who has known all the families who have lived in the house - a house that seems to attract misery.Tracking down her memories of loud party-givers and possible con men amongst others, Ellie is forced to confront the tragedies of her own life during that time, and comes to the conclusion that she was a bad neighbour. Meanwhile the girl's body gives up her secrets while her killers haunt the vicinity, determined to find someone else upon whom to pin the murder . 

Adjusting to life as a wealthy widow, Ellie Quicke is shattered to hear that her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla has been killed in a freak accident. Her only son, Roy, is also devastated. However, Aunt Drusilla has made many enemies in her time, among them Ellie's selfish daughter Diana, who believes she's her great-aunt's heir. What if it were not a genuine accident? And what if Aunt Drusilla's cleaner were missing? The police are suspicious of all those closest to Aunt Drusilla, which includes not only her family but all those who have worked for her...and their families, too. Ellie struggles to keep her dysfunctional family from falling apart as each one in turn is suspected of murder.

Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her husband's death and her newly-single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her: Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit; the builders working on her new conservatory; elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla; even dear Rose who needs Ellie's advice about her daughter's wedding. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing... Ellie is very fond of Tod, and his disappearance shocks her to the core. Before she knows it, she's caught up in a police investigation which casts a sinister shadow over her respectable, close-knit community...

The sixth Ellie Quicke mystery - It seemed an innocent request: would widowed Ellie Quicke visit a man whose dog died in an accident? The dog's master a powerful but unpleasant businessman believes he was the intended target, and that an old enemy is responsible. Feuding financiers are bad news not only for the City, where jobs are at stake, but also for Ellie, who can't fill in a tax return without help

The second in a series of Ellie Quicke Mysteries, based in a church setting and featuring a recently widowed woman who finds herself to be something of a sleuth. When Ellie returns home from her Christmas holiday, she is shocked to hear allegations of foul play at the vicarage. Within days, the vicar, Ellie's good friend, is dismissed and transferred admist rumours that he was having an affair with Nora, the plain but talented organist. Everyone is furious with Nora for the departure of the vicar, yet Ellie tries to help the disturbed woman. Nora shows her some of the threatening letters she has received and tells her of some menacing harassment she is enduring. But it all becomes too much for Nora, and the village is shocked when she commits suicide. Ellie decides to get involved, despite warnings from Roy, a newcomer who is showing romantic interest in her. As she begins to decipher a series of clues and strange confrontations, she realizes that her own life is in danger.