Hammond, Gerald, 1926-

One cool September morning, novelist Tim Russell is out walking his dog Umber when he comes across a young dishevelled woman, camping out in the woods. Tim takes pity on her and invites her back to his home and offers her some shelter. Ann proves a good companion. Then, suddenly, one afternoon, T...

In a village in the Scottish borders, Roland Fox, a young aspiring writer, moves next door to Jane Highsmith, a newly qualified veterinary surgeon. But the growing attraction between them is muted by the mystery surrounding the recent death of her great-grandfather, who apparently fell off a narr...

When Jenny Ambleton's brother gives her a camera for her seventeenth birthday she has no idea that photography is to become her career. But soon her sharp photographic eye gets her into bother during a murder enquiry.

When the widowed wife of his grandson is suddenly badly injured in a hit-and-run accident, it is down to Luke, or GG - great-grandad - as he's known, to take on looking after his great-granddaughters and to try and find out who injured his granddaughter.

Two girls are kidnapped for ransom by a pair of desperate builders. But the girls, who are just as anxious to leave home and begin their own lives, soon dominate the two men and set up a robbery of their own. When they cut across another gang they get more than they bargained for.

When Roddy is found badly injured and unconscious, having fallen down a disused well, it seems that foul play was involved and the police are brought in to investigate. The trail leads them to the local youth centre where Roddy was a volunteer and then to Madeira where a bizarre and unscrupulous ...