Some like it hot
Whether you’re looking for tender first love, steamy romance or spine-tingling suspense, we have your summer beach reads sorted
by ROSE SHEPHERD
BAD TOURISTS
Caro Carver
Ah, the Maldives! A crystal-clear Indian Ocean, white sand, all the cocktails you can drink…
Super-fit Camilla and writer Kate have come with Darcy to celebrate her midlife divorce.
The friends were brought together more than 20 years ago by unimaginable trauma.
Surely a break in this island paradise will be healing? But here’s the problem with paradise: there’s always a serpent. And girly jaunts can be murder.
MURDER UNDER THE SUN
Cecily Gayford (editor)
There is a special charm about vintage fiction in which crimes are solved not by forensics, in the laboratory, but by intuition and deduction. The latest collection in the Vintage Murders series transports us from the English seaside to Corfu and Alsace and to that famously foreign country, the past, in the company of Simon Brett, Ellis Peters, Michael Innes and Arthur Conan Doyle – such great storytellers, it’s criminal.