Novels

AN INTIMATE OBSESSION psychological thriller published by Headline, London 1994. ISBN 0-7472-0961-8. A man becomes obsessed with his neighbour to the extent of planning their wedding and life together without her knowledge. When she rejects him, he exacts a terrible revenge both on her and her father.
YOU BELONG TO ME psychological thriller published by Headline, London 1995. ISBN 0-7472-1473-5. One woman takes over the identity of another with deadly consequences.
LITTLE WHITE LIES psychological thriller published by Headline, London in 1996. ISBN 0-7472-1474-3. When Beth March's husband is killed in a car accident she discovers a web of deceit - his affair with her best friend, a mountain of debt. Who can she trust to tell her the truth? This book was made into a 2-part drama by the BBC.
OUT OF REACH psychological thriller published by Headline, London in 1997. ISBN 0-7472-1910-9. Local journalist has managed to rebuild her life since her baby Jamie was stolen ten years ago. She has never known where he is or even if he is still alive. And then she begins to get anonymous letters saying just the few same words : 'I know where he is....'

SECOND SIGHT psychological/supernatural thriller published by Macmillan, London 1999. ISBN 0-333-74524-8.  Are the voices that Lin Gallagher begins to hear real - or the result of a life-threatening condition? And why, when her life hangs in the balance, would Lin refuse treatment that could save her? THIS NOVEL HAS BEEN ADAPTED AS A STAGE PLAY TITLED 'WE ARE GODS' UNDER MY MARRIED NAME ELIZABETH COOKE.
THE WRONG HOUSE psychological/supernatural thriller published by Macmillan, London in 2000. ISBN  0-333-74525-6. Chief Inspector Robert Wilde is sent to cover an extraordinary case - a mute girl who has been apprehended with a dead woman in her car. Disturbing supernatural forces bear down on a small community with a tragic history.
THIS WAY UP contemporary comedy published by Simon & Schuster 2001 under the name Holly Fox. ISBN 0-671-77379-8. Set in the world of tabloid TV, four women with very different lives conspire to revenge the liars who have wrecked their lives.

UP AND RUNNING contemporary comedy published by Simon & Schuster 2002. ISBN 0-671-77387-9.  Have you ever woken up one morning with a desperate need to run away?

THE ICE CHILD historical/contemporary love story published by Transworld 2001. ISBN 0593-047796 (tbk). Uncanny parallels unfold between the crisis facing Jo Harper's two-year-old son Sam and the fate of the Franklin Expedition of 1845. This big-landscape book with a race against time at its heart, and using the real-life drama of 2 great ships and 156 men who vanished without trace in the Arctic, created a publishers bidding war at the turn of the millenium in 1999/2000 and was published in 17 countries, including the USA.
A WAY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS historical/contemporary love story published by Transworld in 2003. ISBN 0-553-81338-2. (Published in the USA as A ROAD THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS). David Mortimer is summoned across the Atlantic to the bedside of a former lover, who has been involved in a near-fatal car accident, and discovers the daughter he never knew he had. Threaded through with the journeys of David's hero, the Victorian explorer Ernest Wilson.
THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR historical/contemporary love story published by Transworld 2005. ISBN 0-55381605-5.  In the early 1800s, painter Richard Dadd was committed to the notorious London asylum Bedlam. For the next forty years he painted incessantly despite his imprisonment, but little of his work has ever been found. What happened to the paintings, what astonishing secret links him to the modern-day John Brigham, and how will this affect John's passionate love affair with art dealer Catherine Sargeant? The title of the book comes from Dadd's painting The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke.
LEARNING BY HEART contemporary romance published by Transworld 2006. ISBN 0-553-816047. A woman's life is torn apart by the revelations that not only has her husband been having an affair, but her mother has also led a double life. Set partly in Sicily and partly in England, this book reached the final-6 shortlist for Romantic Novelist of the Year, chosen by the general public from over 14,000 titles.