A Private Sorrow
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It is autumn 1954 and after the success of Molly McQueen’s detective agency, she decides to add a new branch for domestic disputes. It is not long before one of the newly hired employees, Maisie, uncovers a riveting mystery by accident while visiting a client.
Vera Barton’s husband Dave and young daughter Etta went missing in 1930. After Dave’s body was found, everyone assumed the worst. But decades later, Molly reluctantly agrees to take up the search for the long-lost child and ends up unravelling a tale of misery and revenge, laced with family secrets and heartbreak.
Indian Summer
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There are lots of changes happening at Molly McQueen’s detective Agency. Biggest of all is that Molly herself must decide whether or not she should move to Australia to be with her family. If she does, it will mean the end of the Agency she has dreamed of and worked so hard to build.
Before she decides on her future, however, Molly enjoys a trip to Pitlochry Festival Theatre to see her old friend Deanna on stage. But when she goes for a walk through the hills at Killiecrankie she comes across a frightening scene. An elderly man has tumbled down a hill and has serious head injuries. As her friend goes for help, Molly stays with the man and tries to comfort him, convinced he does not have long to live. Then, unexpectedly, he hands her a pouch and tells her to ‘warn them’.
Little does she know that those words and the pouch the man has given her will set in motion a chain of events leading to one of the most challenging cases of her career.
The Sunday Girls
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The first part of a trilogy, The Sunday Girls records the changing fortunes of the Neill family during the 1930s’ Depression in Dundee. Daughter Ann is a bookworm and would love to stay on at school but, following the death of her mother, she is forced to help support the family by taking a job as a housemaid. The contrast between rich and poor, at a time when jobs were as scarce as hens’ teeth, is heart-wrenchingly drawn.
These were the hardest of hard times for the whole country, but the collapse of the jute industry meant Dundee was particularly badly hit and Maureen Reynolds skilfully paints a realistic picture of what it was like to live through them.
With her acute ear for dialogue and her ability to tell a cracking tale, Maureen Reynolds also shows how, despite the hardship, fun, friendship and even love were to be found for the Sunday girls, four girls who all happen to have been born on a Sunday.
Towards a Dark Horizon
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Towards A Dark Horizon follows on from The Sunday Girls. Though the legacy Ann Neill inherited from her employer, her family is offered some respite from their lives of hardship. However, the Neills still find nothing straightforward, as war with Germany looms and their own lives seem headed for a similarly dark horizon.
Full of dark family secrets but also warm familial love, Towards A Dark Horizon will delight fans of Maureen Reynolds’s effortless way with a good yarn, eager to know what fate has in store for Ann and Lilly Neill and their father Johnny, as well as the Ryan clan and the budding relationship between Danny and Maddie.
The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
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Maureen Reynolds’ moving family saga which started with The Sunday Girls and continued in Towards a Dark Horizon now concludes in The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow.
As war continues to rage across Europe, the family are worried about Rosie, who is pregnant and suffering from terrible morning sickness. Meanwhile Johnny goes to Orkney with the Home Guard, where he suffers a fractured skull in a fall. When he eventually gets home Rosie is feeling better but then suddenly goes into labour.
Meantime, Ann Neill is thrilled to be meeting up with Greg again when he gets a 48-hour pass. But instead of meeting him as planned, Johnny asks her to go to the hospital with Rosie and tells her he will explain later. Ann realises that she and Greg are growing apart and finds out later that he has met another girl at Bletchley Park.
When the war finally ends, Danny does not return. They think they see him on a cinema newsreel one day but are devastated to discover from the Red Cross that the man in the film has died. Then, when Grandad becomes ill, it seems that the family are to be in crisis once again.
In The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow, Maureen Reynolds concludes her compelling story describing the trials and tribulations of working-class life in the close-knit community of wartime and post-war Dundee.
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