Emma Page

A Kesley and Lambert novel.A 16-year-old girl is found beaten and suffocated in the woods. Her name was Karen Boland and her short life had been secretive and unhappy.The police find plenty of suspects: Karen’s middle-aged lover, her stepfather, her classmates… As they dig deeper, they discover that the teenager’s life had been surprisingly complicated.

A Kelsey and Lambert novel. Has Chief Inspector Kelsey meet his match at last?Anna Conway, rising twenty, had much to live for: not least a devoted young husband who put her welfare before all else. Yet she suffered from depression and, just before leaving on a restorative cruise, she was found dead in her bath.Chief Inspector Kelsey and Sergeant Lambert at first accepted Anna's death as suicide, and the more they learned of her unloved childhood, the more understandable suicide became. So it...

A standalone mystery from the author of the Kelsey and Lambert series.A number of people in the Midland town of Milbourne felt their lives would be happier without Zena Yorke, for Zena, rich, spoilt, once-beautiful, diabetic, sat like a spider at the heart of a web of intrigue.There was her husband, initially successful in his garment factory because of her but now grown tired of her; Arnold Pierson, the firm’s accountant, over whom she had a mysterious hold; her hard-up brother, casting...

Two sisters’ bodies are discovered near the industrial town of Cannonbridge. As detectives Lambert and Kelsey investigate the double murder, they find themselves upsetting the locals.The girl in the green anorak who came into the pub one rainy evening was looking for her sister, who had left home four years before.Now, because an unexpected legacy could not be paid until both girls were accounted for, she is hot on the scent, never suspecting that for her it is a scent of death and that each...

A Kelsey and Lambert novel.A Longmead schoolteacher is found strangled with her own silk scarf and several of the village's men become suspects, as Chief Inspector Kelsey investigates.

A Kesley and Lambert novel.The sun has risen but successful young stockbroker Gavin Elliot is still in bed.He lies on his side, his pyjama top hitched up to reveal his back- and a knife sticking out from between his shoulder-blades…

A standalone mystery from the author of the Kelsey and Lambert series.A mystery story that centres around the young and successful Alison Rolt. Complex strands of small town life unravel in the search for a murderer.

A Kesley and Lambert novel.Did Vera Foster commit suicide? That’s what everybody thinks. But Chief Inspector Kelsey has another theory.He insists Vera’s husband Gerald killed his wife, even though he was seventy miles away when she died.Following his intuition, and risking his reputation, Kelsey sets out to prove Gerald’s guilt and solve the most complicated puzzle of his career.

A beach holiday is ruined by a murder, committed with a cyanide-sprinkled sandwich.The death of a guest casts a shadow over the summer holiday season at Oakfields mansion.The murder weapon is discovered: a sandwich, seasoned with a good pinch of cyanide.Motives abound among the other holidaymakers staying at Oakfields, a strange and fascinating group of people with plenty of secrets to hide…

A Kesley and Lambert novel. Cannonbridge’s wealthiest and poorest are drawn into the complex web of DCI Kelsey and Sergeant Lambert’s investigations.The body of an old man is discovered in the garden of an abandoned house. There are no witnesses. There is no murder weapon.The victim is Harry Lingard, the hardworking owner of the council house he grew up in, who still fights for the rights of local tenants.Harry had made enemies in high and low places with his vigilantism, investigations into...

A Kesley and Lambert novel. Chief Inspector Kesley investigates a murder case that will prove to be one of the most difficult and complex of his career.When Grace Dalton is found dead the morning after celebrating her 70th birthday, she leaves behind a houseful of suspects, all of whom are mentioned in her will, and money seems to be the motive.Could the killer be Esther Milroy, who is discovered to have booked an expensive holiday just prior to the tragedy? Or is Esther’s brother Mathew- facing...

A Kesley and Lambert novel.Chief Inspector Kelsey and Detective Lambert are investigating the murder of divorcee Venetia Franklin.Venetia’s ex-husband Ray Franklin and his new wife certainly have a motive: Ray had had to continue providing for Venetia after the divorce. But, there are other suspects: Philip Coburn who had recently broken off an affair with Venetia, and an intense young man she had met just before her death.Kelsey is following every lead on the suspects when the death of a...

A standalone mystery from the author of the Kelsey and Lambert novels.A number of people stood to benefit from Harry Mallinson’s death and Henry Mallinson was old and sick and very rich.His estranged elder son needed money for his business. His younger son did not want to see his father’s will changed. His pretty daughter-in-law needed money to lay of ghost from her past to rest. His godson was behind with instalments on a motorcycle. His nurse needed a few thousand to buy a son a small-holding...