By Maeve Binchy
Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories never before published in the United States.





Theodosia Browning, intrepid owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., is catering a glittering show of gems and jewels hosted by her friend Brooke Carter Crockett, owner of Heart’s Desire Fine jewelry. The elegant affair is proceeding apace when a truck smashes through the shop’s front window and a gang of jewel thieves leaps out to commit a smash-and-grab robbery of gems worth millions.
While welcoming the newcomer determined to fix up a hunting lodge in Sutherland, Hamish rolls the dice and asks the man’s beautiful nurse to dinner. But she doesn’t arrive at the restaurant, and her dead body washes ashore just four days later. Now Hamish must fly solo to find the killer and determine their motive before someone else draws their last breath.
Getting married is just one of the exciting delights on Hannah Swenson’s menu as she prepares for a televised New York City dessert competition that will send her head-to-head with infamous celebrity chef Alain Duquesne. When Duquesne is stabbed to death and found on-set, Hannah must whip up a list of suspects and find the killer.
When Nicole learns of her husband’s cheating ways from the man’s own mother, Leanne, she separates from him. Leanne takes the opportunity to finally leave her own unfaithful husband. She and Nichole, now living in apartments across the hall from each other, bond as they learn to embrace their new lives.
Successful television cop show star Sarah Broughton must face the dark past she has tried to bury when an obsessed admirer sends her several letters, one of which identifies her real name: Sally Bolton. Then Sarah’s old name is scrawled in the sand near a body not far from her home. Sarah turns to a detective who specializes in stalkers for help.
When a senior partner at a prominent Portland law firm is fatally beaten and found in his mansion, his eco-warrior son proudly confesses to the murder. Now Lawyer Amanda Jaffe must find a way to prove the son’s innocence and stop the true killer.
Sometimes the darkness inside is more terrifying than any horror we witness in the waking world. Collected Stories from the past 25 years tell of two lovers’ quest for debauchery on a yacht traveling the Amazon River; the shocking effects that power and violence have when wielded by the most innocent; and more.