Elizabeth Corley crafts compelling crime fiction that delves into the complexities of human nature and morality within suspenseful narratives. Her style is marked by sharp insights into character psychology and meticulously constructed plots. Drawing from an analytical mind honed by her professional life, she masterfully weaves tension and unexpected twists. Corley offers readers engaging stories that provoke thought about society's darker undercurrents.
Seventeen-year-old Isabelle Mattias, the privileged daughter of an artist and a dead rock star, is an unusual teenage girl. When she disappears in the middle of the night, Chief Superintendent Andrew Fenwick arrives to investigate. As unsettling hints of an abusive past surface, Fenwick wonders is it too much to hope that the girl is still alive?
At the age of 28 a poorly educated but resourceful Oxfordshire shepherd took the historic step of moving 200 miles north to Lancashire in order to attempt a new career making and selling medicinal pills. Thomas Beecham already had a passing interest in pharmacy and for many years had concocted remedies for the farm animals under his care, but even he could not have believed that the firm he began with faltering steps would endure and prosper into the twenty-first century. This lively and thoroughly researched book traces Beecham's progress from home-made pills to the most advanced antibiotics. Early chapters describe, in a readable and engaging style, a number of colourful and turbulent episodes involving the talented but wayward founding family. Musical enthusiasts will welcome new background detail about Sir Thomas Beecham, while business historians, management specialists and economists are given an authoritative account of how a modest firm managed to survive and prosper over a century and a half. Many others will just enjoy a good read.
It's a slap in the face for the rest of the family when Arthur Wainwright leaves the bulk of his estate to his nephew and his wife. Sally soon spots irregularities in the finances of the firm, and when murder occurs the police are called in.
Twenty years earlier a young woman falls tragically to her death. The only people with her are four schoolfriends. One - or maybe all of them - is responsible. And there's someone intent on letting them have their just desserts. DCI Andrew Fenwick is caught up in a race against time to find the murderer before he completes his bloody vendetta.
Sergeant Louise Nightingale is the model police officer: calm, composed and always in control. When her colleagues discover a connection between a series of sexual attacks and an online contest called 'The Game', Nightingale becomes involved in tracking down the perpetrator.