Frances Fyfield

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Title: A Clear Conscience: Description:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Crown Prosecutor Helen west applies this maxim with equal verve to the state of disrepair of her garden flat and to her relationship with senior policeman Geoffrey Blake, although both ar ein need of al ittle tender loving care. Bailey, in particular. is caught up in a semmingly open-and-shut murder enquiry, but something about the case is making him uneasy. Returning from another unsuccessful court hearing, another domestic violence case which leaves her frustrated and angy, Helen decides her life needs brighening up. Where bette rto start than her home and who better to help her than Cath, her newly aquired cleaning lady?

Title: Shadows On The Mirror: Description:
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Title: Deep Sleep: Description:
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Title: Perfectly Pure And Good: Description:
When Sarah Fortune is sent to a small seaside town in Norfolk, she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the pardoes and the town - the legacy of a suicide two years previously when Elizabeth Tysall, a beautiful woman with an uncanny resemblance to Sarah, walked into the sea and never came back

Title: The Nature Of The Beast: Description:
When an intercity train travelling from Kent to London crashes; one passenger uses the opportunity for an argument to become a murder, and beautiful Amy Pettty seizes the opportunity to leave her life behind. Is it the present Amy is running away from - or the past from which she cannot escape........

Title: Blind Date: Description:
How do make people love you? Emma Davey, who loved everyone found it easy. Everyone loved her. Until someone put a black bin liner over her head and kicked her to death. Elisabeth Kennedy, Emma's older sister and disgraced ex-police officer, considers herself beyond love or even self-respect. She is hanted by Emma's death and her own humilitating attempts to lure the killer into a confession. Then she is the victim of a senseless attack which adds physical scars to a fractured spirit

Title: Undercurrents: Description:
Henry met Francesca whilst backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, his refusal to change his travel plans caused her to leave without him. It is a decision that has haunted his adult life and so twenty years later he decides to find her. But what he discovers is not what he expects. Francesca is in prison for murdering her 5 year old son

Title: Trial By Fire: Description:
A sleepy Essex village seems an unlikely spot for a crime of passion. But little else can account for the naked body found in nearby woods. Beneath the surface gentility Crown Prosecuter helen Bailey and Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey discover a hidden world of envy, lust and murderous rage - sprung to explode..

Title: Seeking Sanctuary: Description:
When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the law, the girls' health and his wife's intransigence, he failed. But, if he lost the battle for their souls in life, he would make amends in death, craftily shaping his will to benefit them so long as they did not follow their mother's example. His daughters felt they had lost either way, especially Anna. She had promiscuously turned her back on her mother's teachings, but watched in horror as her sister Therese followed those same lessons and naively accepted the faith which Anna was certain had ruined their lives. In her rebellion against such blind belief she at first doesn't notice the worm in their midst when the convent where Therese has settled employs a new gardener. And when she does wake up to the danger she realises she may have left it too late to save their legacy and their lives.

Title: Undercurrents: Description:
Henry didn't turn his back when Francesca needed him 20 years ago. Now, on a journey to anchor his soul, he arrives in her home town to discover she's even further beyond his reach - serving a life sentence for the murder of her child. He is unable to believe her guilt - despite her confession. About the Author Frances Fyfield is a criminal lawyer, a trade she has used to huge success in many of her novels. She lives in London and in Deal, by the sea which is her passion. She has won several awards, including the Silver Dagger.

Title: Seeking Sanctuary: Description:
When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the law, the girls' health and his wife's intransigence, he failed. But, if he lost the battle for their souls in life, he would make amends in death, craftily shaping his will to benefit them so long as they did not follow their mother's example. His daughters felt they had lost either way, especially Anna. She had promiscuously turned her back on her mother's teachings, but watched in horror as her sister Therese followed those same lessons and blindly accepted the faith which Anna was certain had ruined their lives. In her rebellion against such blind belief she at first doesn't notice the worm in their midst when the convent where Therese has settled employs a new gardener. And when she does wake up to the danger she realises she may have left it too late to save their legacy and their lives.

Title: The Nature Of The Beast: Description:
Different people react to disasters in different ways. When an intercity service travelling from Kent to London joins Paddington, Hatfield and Selby in a deadly list of notoriety, it isn't only fate who decides who is killed: one passenger uses the opportunity for argument to spill over into murdesr; while another - blonde, beautiful Amy Petty - sees the train crash as an opportunity to leave her life behind....

Title: Let's Dance: Description:
Isabel Burley returns to her childhood home to look after he mother, Serena, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. There she finds a bemused, angry, charming old woman, prey to the threats of failing memory, the inability to run her own home - and the local villains who are eyeing her isolated home. As the villains inexorably move in, Isabel finds herself struggling with another threat from within. She thinks she has gone home to do some good, but is she really looking for the love she lacked as a child? Alienated by her mother's growing eccentricity, the two women become locked in a relationship of love, hatred and simmering violence, with roots that go deep into the past.

Title: Trial By Fire: Description:
A woman's naked and dead body is found outside the Essex commuter village of Branston. Crown Prosecutor Helen West and the local police discover a world of passion and envy ready to explode under the veneer of village gentility.

Title: A Helen West Omnibus: Description:
This omnibus contains the three Frances Fyfield novels - "Deep Sleep", "Shadow Play" and "A Clear Conscience" - which have been dramatized for the ITV network, starring Amanda Burton.