Catrin Collier Books

An epic novel of an incendiary love that threatened to set the desert alight as war raged between the British and Ottoman Empires.

It is January 1957 and Helen's husband Jack returns from National Service. Happy to be reunited, they resume their life together. Their friends, Lily, pregnant and married to Jack's brother Martin, Katie, pregnant and married to Helen's father John, and Judy, engaged to policeman Sam, form part of their everyday life. Then Helen is utterly shattered when Jack tells her that a brief fling with a sergeant's widow has left the woman pregnant. Helen can't have children so handling her friends' pregnancies has been difficult enough; this is more than she can bear. She starts divorce proceedings but their fierce love for each other cannot be extinguished. Finally she has to make a decision which requires courage but could be the answer to their differences.

December 1915. Following heavy casualties, General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Amara, Iraq. His orders - to engage as many Turkish troops as possible in a siege situation. A relief force is hastily assembled, among them Charles Reid, Tom Mason, and Michael Downe, for each of whom the advance is personal.

The second in the epic historical Tsar's Dragons series by award-winning novelist Catrin Collier, featuring the lives of Welsh and Russian settlers in the industrial city of Hughesovka, Ukraine in the 1870s.

The third novel in the Long Road to Baghdad series, Scorpion Sunset is an epic, moving account of World War One in Mesopotamia, by one of Wales' most acclaimed historical novelists.

Megan Williams is eighteen and in love with the boy next door, Victor Evans. It is 1910 and, in the Rhondda Valley, poverty and hardship are taking their toll as troops are brought in to control the striking miners. The only work Megan can find is in a house where the police and soldiers lodge, but she is shunned by friends and neighbours, who believe she has betrayed her class by working for the enemy. Megan's father would rather see his daughter dead than married to a Catholic, particularly one whose father and brother are marked as strike ringleaders. Caught in the middle, Victor and Megan find themselves fighting for the right to love one another, remain together and build a future they can share.

Detective Trevor Joseph has his work cut out with the advent of a new welsh synthetically produced drug - black daffodil and it's impact on the criminal fraternities operating in and around Cardiff bay and the welsh valleys.

The first of a series based on the exploits of Welshman John Hughes, who founded a city in the Russian Empire, Hughesovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine).

A bloodstained man runs half naked down a motorway at night dodging high-speed traffic. Admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from amnesia, he has a detailed knowledge of sophisticated weaponry and military techniques, all evidence of terrorism. When his armed guards are murdered and his psychiatrist, Dr Elizabeth Santer, is abducted, a desperate hunt begins for a dangerous killer. He drags Elizabeth to Wales where a violent and bloody confrontation exposes treachery and political cover-up. Is he a terrorist, kidnapper or murderer? Elizabeth's life depends on the answer.

Pontypridd 1930 - At eighteen Edyth is the 'plain, intelligent' one of Harry and Sali Evans's five daughters. Until a chance meeting with handsome curate Peter Slater throws her life into turmoil. Head over heelsin love, she sacrifices her own ambitions of a college education and career, and defies her parents' opposition so she can help Peter realise his dream of running his own parish. The church sends Peter to Butetown, amulti-racial dockland area of Cardiff, commonly known as Tiger Bay. There Edyth and Peter encounter rich cultures from all corners of the world thatflourish even in the depression ridden conditions of desperate poverty. It is a society where creed, language and the colour of a family's skin doesn't matter - as long as the borders that separate Tiger Bay from the city aren't crossed. And there Edyth discovers exactly why her parents were so opposed to her marriage. Peter has a dark secret that has not only blighted his life but also hers. A secret that threatens to destroy her love and, ultimately their marriage. In Tiger Bay she finds out - too late - the difference between true love and infatuation. She experiences the heartbreak that stems from being unable to acknowledge the one man she has come to recognise as the great love of her life.

A woman is plunged into a nightmare of terror and doubt after her doctor husband goes missing while treating a serial murder victim.

Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child. He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris. The vicar found Anna's naked, battered body in the churchyard one morning. The police discovered Anna's bloodstained earring in Dai's pocket.The judge gave Dai life.After ten years in gaol Dai appealed against his sentence and was free. Sergeants Trevor Joseph and Peter Collins are sent to Llan to reopen the case. But the villagers refuse to believe Dai innocent. The Llan police do not make mistakes or allow murderers to walk free.Do they?

This year Valentine's Day isn't for romance. It's for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine's Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder.Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack's fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing's for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.

A glorious nostalgic saga trilogy about a group of women coming of age during the changing times - ideal for fanss of Nadine Dorries and Jennifer Worth.

Die schwarzen Blumen des Todes Für Inspector Trevor Joseph und seine Frau Lyn geht ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung: Die Geburt des ersten Kindes steht bevor. Trevor hat schon Urlaub eingereicht, da durchkreuzt ein brisanter Fall seine Pläne: Mit seinen Kollegen soll er die Drogengangs von Cardiff undercover durchdringen und herausfinden, wer die tödliche Designerdroge „Black Narcissus“ in Umlauf gebracht hat. Aber als Trevors Undercover-Partner einer nach dem anderen verschwinden – nur um bald als Leichen wieder aufzutauchen –, kommen dem Ermittler Zweifel, ob er die Geburt seines Sohnes überhaupt noch erleben wird ...

DAS GESICHT EINES MÖRDERS Schon immer galt das Viertel unten am Hafen als Brutstätte des Verbrechens. Doch selbst hier hat man noch nie einen so grausigen Mord gesehen wie diesen: Ein Obdachloser, bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt, vorher wurde ihm das Gesicht bis zur Unkenntlichkeit zerschnitten. Doch der größte Schock erwartet Inspector Trevor Joseph und seine Kollegen, als der Tote mühsam identifiziert ist: Es war gar kein Obdachloser, es war ein junger Anwalt. Und der ist offiziell seit zwei Jahren tot.

VORORT DER HÖLLEIn einem beschaulichen Vorort von Cardiff hat sich ein schreckliches Blutbad ereignet: Die Verwaltungsangestellte Kacy Howells liegt auf ihrer Veranda — regungslos, mit einer Axt erschlagen. Inspector Trevor Joseph findet recht schnell heraus, dass das Opfer nicht nur Opfer war. Die auf den ersten Blick so brave Beamtin hatte ihren Nachbarn das Leben regelrecht zur Hölle gemacht. Aber auch andere Bewohner der Siedlung leben gefährlich. Nach und nach tun sich Abgründe auf …