Twisted Affairs

JUDAS IN A SKIRTCharlotte is devastated when she learns her husband is having an affair with one of her friends. It sends her into a crisis, which involves sexual liaisons with younger men, and eventually leads to murder. MALE STRIPPERWhen Muriel McBain, a respectable spinster, falls madly in love with a male stripper half her age, it turns her comfortable world upside down. Then on top of that she has to deal with the murderous intent of a friend and neighbour, and her own desire for revenge. THE BEASTHannah, a 19th century prostitute, finds herself married to a man so sexually depraved she calls him The Beast. She records her anguish in a journal, which is found a century later by April Ingram. April is both fascinated and repelled by what she reads, and becomes increasingly drawn into Hannah's world. But can she pull herself back into the present before this obsession with the past destroys her?THREATSWhen a block of small shops is threatened with demolition and redevelopment, it results in threats, harassment and finally murder. MISSING PATROLAmidst the dangers of war torn Afghanistan, an army officer finds himself irresistibly drawn to another soldier. The forbidden attraction shakes him to the core and plunges him into a bitter inner conflict. But the battle against these new and disturbing desires is not the only war he must fight. A patrol goes missing, under suspicious circumstances, while on routine surveillance. The subsequent media interest, and the shocking truth as it unfolds, challenges his belief system and rocks the comfortable world he grew up in.