Set in a sunny seaside town, the heroine gets involved in dastardly deeds which she needs to help sort out – which she does with great aplomb. A reminder that you don’t always have to go away to find romance and adventure – sometimes they can be found on your own doorstep.

Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory.

The only problem is, she’s falling for the one man she absolutely can’t have.

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past.