Bøker av Hilly Barmby

A glamorous French weddingIt's set to be one of the society weddings of the year, but thriller-fan Hetty Jones is feeling out of her depth. She's already picking up on family tension between her boyfriend Davey and his twin sisters Ailsa and Juliette, which can't just be put down to pre-wedding nerves. Hetty feels out of place in this company; Davey's family are rich and well-educated, while she grew up on a council estate. Davey's cousin Isabelle is to marry Jean-Jacques, a French right-wing politician, in the family chateau.A fairy tale eventAilsa is hesitant about coming back to France. Eight years ago, something happened that nearly destroyed the family. But that was dealt with, wasn't it? Hetty has secrets of her own that she doesn't want known. Ailsa is drawn back into the past. What, exactly, did happen? The expensive wedding is everything it should be, until the groom is taken ill. The revellers carry on, but something is seriously wrong.Then things start to unravel Relationships begin to fracture and secrets from the past surface - with murderous results... Who is telling the truth? Who is out for revenge?

A mystery woman enters Lily's life At the launch for her latest children's book, a member of the audience asks Lily for a strange inscription in her copy of the book. Why does this unnerve her? Is Jack the answer to Lily's prayers? Later, while celebrating in a local bar, Lily, and best friend Alice, spot the same woman. Her name is Rose. Putting aside earlier unease, a new friendship between the three is formed. Rose offers to help Lily re-enter the dating scene after a bad breakup and they come across Jack, Mr Perfect on paper. Lily quickly falls for handsome Jack. Is he too good to be true? The past is the past, or is it? Soon after the pair start dating, bizarre things start to occur to Lily; things are moved or they go missing, and, what's worse, her precious artwork is damaged. Who did this to her? Surely it can't have been her new boyfriend, her new friend Rose, or her oldest friend Alice, even if they all have a motive? Perhaps Lily did this all herself. Who can she trust? Can she trust herself? Or has a ghost from Lily's past come back to haunt her?

Little by little, an amnesiac pieces together the truth about her Southern family, her old life, and a friend’s murder, in this engrossing novel of suspense. Waking up with amnesia in an Atlanta hospital, Cassie Barber-Davenport goes home to a life she doesn’t recognize. She gradually learns that her associations with neo-Confederates and white supremacists have left her estranged from her husband and alienated from her children. Cassie no longer wants to embrace these views—but breaking away from that world and from her wealthy Southern family is not so simple. Meanwhile, she still suffers confusion and disorientation—experiencing nightmares about an unknown Englishman; hearing from her friend Marcie that she apparently had been having an affair; being dismissed by the police after she’s awakened by a frightening phone call. Then a body is found—and a series of revelations brings Cassie’s past into shocking clarity . . .