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Kate Riordan

    Kate Riordan is a writer whose novels are characterized by their intricate dual narratives, weaving seamlessly between distinct historical periods. She skillfully explores hidden secrets and palpable tension, often focusing on the lives of women and their complex motivations. Riordan's prose is atmospheric and meticulously crafted, drawing readers into the past with a compelling sense of urgency. Her work delves into the subtle intricacies of human relationships set against richly imagined historical backdrops.

    Summer Fever
    The Stranger
    The Shadow Hour
    The Girl in the Photograph
    Heatwave
    Sanditon
    • 2022

      Laura's marriage is at a crossroads. When she discovers Villa Luna Rossa, a crumbling villa in the Italian countryside, she convinces her husband Nick to embark on a new life there. But as the intense summer heat rises, Laura quickly realises that her issues with Nick haven't been left behind. So it's a relief when their first guests arrive - a glamorous American couple. Laura can't help but be drawn to these strangers. As she gets closer to the couple, though, she realises that everyone at Villa Luna Rossa is hiding something. And as the summer draws to a close, no secret will be safe...

      Summer Fever
    • 2020

      Heatwave

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(4081)Add rating

      Returning to the childhood home she would rather forget in the south of France, Sylvie endeavors to protect her youngest daughter from a growing threat and toxic family dynamics linked to the death of her enigmatic firstborn.

      Heatwave
    • 2019

      Sanditon: Official Fiction tie-in to the hit ITV show

      Sanditon
    • 2018

      The Stranger

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.6(333)Add rating

      1940 Cornwall, England. Penhallow Hall shelters a handful of Land Girls, sent to the coast to avoid the horrors of London's Blitz. But the beautiful, arrogant Diana Devlin, impatient with the sleepy village and its placid residents, can't resist the temptation to stir up long-buried secrets. When a young woman's body is found lying broken on the shore, the promised safety of the Hall is shattered. Was it simply a tragic accident, or did mischief end in murder?

      The Stranger
    • 2016

      The Shadow Hour

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
      3.7(969)Add rating

      Nineteen twenty-two. Grace has been sent to the stately and crumbling Fenix House to follow in her grandmother's footsteps as a governess. But when she meets the house's inhabitants, people who she had only previously heard of in stories, the cracks in her grandmother's tale begin to show. Secrets appear to live in the house's very walls and everybody is resolutely protecting their own. Why has she been sent here? Why did her grandmother leave after just one summer? And as the past collides with the present, can Grace unravel these secrets and discover who her grandmother, and who she, really is?

      The Shadow Hour
    • 2015

      The Girl in the Photograph

      • 441 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.7(2358)Add rating

      It's the summer of 1933 and Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her shame in this isolated house concealed within a Gloucestershire valley in the care of housekeeper, Mrs Jelphs, Alice soon begins to sense that something isn't quite right within the walls of this beautiful manor - for one thing she is being watched. There are secrets at Fiercombe that those who remain there are determined to keep. Tragedy haunts the empty rooms and foreboding hangs heavy in the stifling heat. Traces of the previous occupant, Elizabeth Stanton, are everywhere, and Alice discovers Elizabeth's life eerily mirrors the path she herself is on. The past is set to repeat its sorrows, and with devastating consequences.

      The Girl in the Photograph