‘All the elegance and all the venom of one of E.Nesbit’s supernatural stories served with a side of arsenic.’  Grady Hendrix,  New York Times  bestselling author of  How to Sell a Haunted House

The dead won’t stay silent forever?

Clara Woods has a secret. At the bottom of the garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her murdered husband rests in peace – or so she always thought. Then the girls arrived.

Lily and Violet, her adolescent nieces, are recently orphaned and in urgent need of care. Raising teenagers is certainly not what Clara had envisioned for herself, but they come with a hefty sum attached.

There is only one problem: both girls are untrained witches. Lily can literally see how people feel. And young Violet can see the dead man wandering at the bottom of the garden. In fact, she can see all the dead and call them back.

Soon, Clara finds herself surrounded by apparitions – and two girls who know far more about her dark past than they should. A war is waging in this house, and only one side can win?

‘Theatrical and deliciously dark, this book is pure magic’  A.J. West, author of  The Spirit Engineer

‘One gorgeously morbid gothic novel that’s just as gleeful as it is gashlycrumb.’  Clay McLeod Chapman, author of  What Kind of Mother  and  Ghost Eaters

Local schoolteacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life’s work.

Some don’t want the past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. Because Ilsbeth was an innocent, shunned and ostracized by rumour-mongers and ill-wishers, and someone has to speak up for her. And who better than Catherine, who has herself felt the sting and hurt of such whisperings?

And then a childhood friend returns to F -. Elena is a successful author who’s earned a certain celebrity. Now in search of a new subject, she announces her intention to write a book about the long-dead woman.

And Elena has everything Catherine has not. A platform. And connections. And no one seems to care that this book will be pure speculation, tainting Ilsbeth’s memory. Catherine is left with no option but to blunt her rival’s pen …

Before summer is over, one woman will be dead and the other accused of murder.
But is she guilty, or are there other forces at work? And who was Ilsbeth Clark, really?
An innocent? A witch? Or something else entirely?

‘Creepy and compelling’ THE TIMES CRIME CLUB

‘Atmospheric and addictive’ CRIME MONTHLY

‘Sinister. A pulse-pounding read’ WOMAN & HOME

‘A mixture of black humour and psychological insight’ SUNDAY TIMES, ‘Best Historical Fiction Books of 2023’
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Blood is thicker than water . . . and murder is best kept in the family
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Kate Bender has killed before.
She has felt the warm trickle of a man’s blood. Known what it is like to hold his life in her hands. But that is in the past.

Laying low in a new town, she vows to change. When she gains the locals’ trust as an esteemed medium, a life closer to virtue finally seems within reach.

But can Kate deny her lingering urges?
For while the town praise her promising work, she is drawn to darker business behind closed doors . . .
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‘I was absolutely captivated. Chilling, terrifying, utterly addictive, All the Blood We Share is a beautifully written, spellbinding read for 2023′ KAREN COLES, author of The Asylum
Praise for Camilla Bruce
‘Extraordinary’ The Times
‘Dark glee and tragedy – you’ll gobble this up’ Laura Purcell

‘An amazing book, riveting, heart-breaking and intense. I couldn’t put it down’ My Favourite Murder Podcast

The town’s people may not want their past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. For Ilsbeth was an innocent, after all. She was shunned and ostracised by rumour-mongers and ill-wishers and someone has to speak up for her. And who better than Catherine, who has herself felt the sting and hurt of such whisperings?

But then a childhood friend returns to F -. Elena is a successful author whose book, The Whispers Inside: A Reawakening of the Soul, has earned her a certain celebrity. In search of a new subject, she takes an interest in the story of Ilsbeth Clark and announces her intention to write a book about the long-dead woman, focusing on the natural magic she believes she possessed.

And Elena has everything Catherine has not, like a platform and connections and no one seems to care that Elena’s book will be pure speculation, tainting Ilsbeth’s memory rather than preserving it. Catherine is determined that something must be done and plots to blunt her rival’s pen. However she had not allowed for the fact that the past might not be so dead after all – that something is reaching out from the well, disturbing her reality.

Before summer’s over, one woman will be dead, the other accused of murder . . . but is she really guilty, or are there other forces at work? And who was Ilsbeth Clark, really? An innocent? A witch? Or something else entirely?

Blood is thicker than water . . . and murder is best kept in the family
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At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the arrival of medium Kate Bender and her family.

Kate’s messages from the Beyond give their dreams hope, and her mother’s potions cure their ills – for a price.

No one knows about their other business, the shortcut they offer to a better life. And why shouldn’t Kate’s family prosper? They’re careful. It’s only from those who are marked, those who travel alone and can easily disappear, that the Benders demand their pound of flesh.

But even a gifted seer like Kate can make a misstep.

Now as the secrets festering beneath the soil of the family orchard threaten to bring them all to ruin, the Benders must sharpen their craft – or vanish themselves . . .
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‘I was absolutely captivated. Chilling, terrifying, utterly addictive, All the Blood We Share is a beautifully written, spellbinding read for 2023′ KAREN COLES, author of The Asylum

Praise for Camilla Bruce

‘Extraordinary’ The Times

‘Dark glee and tragedy – you’ll gobble this up’ Laura Purcell

‘An amazing book, riveting, heart-breaking and intense. I couldn’t put it down’ My Favourite Murder Podcast

THE FASCINATING REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HISTORY’S ORIGINAL FEMALE SERIAL KILLER

‘Dark, twisted and dangerously addictive’ SAM LLOYD, bestselling author of THE MEMORY WOOD
‘Extraordinary. Bruce does a marvellous job of reimagining this real-life murderer, without excusing her crimes’ The Times

Bella loves men. She loves them to death . . .
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Bella Sorensen knows the world is made for men. But she also knows what few others do: where women are concerned, men are weak.

A woman unscrupulous enough can take from them what she wants. And so Bella sets out to prove to the world that a woman can be just as ruthless, black-hearted and single-minded as any man.

Starting with her long-suffering husband, Mads, Bella embarks on a killing spree the like of which has never been seen before nor since.

And through it all her kind, older sister Nellie can only watch in horror as Bella’s schemes to enrich herself and cut down the male population come to a glorious, dreadful fruition . . .

Based on the true story of Belle Gunness whose killing spree began in Chicago in 1900, Triflers Need Not Apply is a novelistic tour de force exploring one woman’s determination to pay men back for all they have taken.
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‘Explosive . . . If you like true crime, you’ll devour this chilling story of revenge’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY

‘Dark glee, tragedy . . . Fans of my story The Corset will gobble this up’ LAURA PURCELL

‘Come for the fabulous premise, stay for the razor-sharp portrait of a marvelously complex (and often totally terrifying) mind . . . Camilla Bruce has absolutely outdone herself’ LAIRD HUNT

‘Starts as a revenge story but quickly becomes so much more. Clever, shocking and horrific in places, it’s the sort of book for which the phrase ‘page-turner’ was invented’ LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDY