When consultant anaesthetist, Moira Farrell, is found stabbed to death, shock reverberates amongst her medical colleagues. Worse is to come when rumours start to leak out regarding the professional incompetence of her clinical director. Was Moira about to blow the whistle on him? Was that sufficient reason for him to silence her forever? But then contradictory evidence from forensics emerges, firmly pointing to a petty criminal who had worked as a gardener for Moira.DCI Ed Swift must unravel the tangled threads of the murder against a background of growing concern for his own daughter who has unaccountably run into trouble with the police.Then, unexpectedly, the DCI's investigation suddenly bears fruit, flushing out a killer with all the motivation for the murder. Will justice now be done?

‘The Mistress apologised very sincerely to Georgiana for stealing her husband and becoming pregnant with his child.’The Maestro: Saul Xavier is revered and envied by millions. He is talented, wealthy and magnetically attractive. But the two greatest desires of his life are unfulfilled until he meets Tara.The Mistress: Tara is young, musically gifted and filled with enthusiasm for life. Xavier can’t resist her.The Wife: Georgiana is an ice-cold beauty who revels in the status of being married to Xavier. What she doesn’t revel in is love-making. And when Tara steals Xavier away, she is determined to have revenge.In this novel of intense love, passion and jealousy, three people play out a gripping drama which boils up to a momentous and unexpected climax.“Angela Dracup tells a gripping story of burning passions set in the cut-throat world of classical music.”The Maestro SeriesThe Maestro’s Mistress is the second book in The Maestro Series. Although musically themed, they are all stand-alone books written in different genres. Mozart in Love is already published and Death in a Heartbeat will become available on Amazon Kindle over the coming months.About the AuthorA prolific author, Angela has written 29 books in a number of genres. She's had four bestsellers with her books in the acclaimed, Scarlet Series (under the pen name Angela Drake) and was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie Medal with her young adult novel, The Placing.Author’s website: www.angeladracup.comPublished by The Electronic Book Companywww.theelectronicebookcompany.com

No one knows what was happening in Christian Hartwell's life in the days before his corpse was found bruised and scarred at the foot of Fellbeck Crag in Yorkshire. Was he in trouble he couldn't get out of? Was his death a suicide? Or was it something much more sinister? These are the questions that DCI Ed Swift and his colleague DI Cat Fallon must determine before a major murder investigation is mounted... but finding convincing evidence is problematic. Ruth Hartwell, the victim's adoptive mother, is unable to shed any light on her son's final days, while her daughter Harriet has a strange tale from the past to tell Swift...but one without clear links to her brother's death. Then Ruth receives a threatening visit from a man calling himself Mac the Knife and she and her family find themselves in real danger. Swift knows that it is vital for him to get to the truth- and fast. But in doing so, he risks not only his job but also his life...