Dream Lover begins with Millie and her friend Annalisa travelling to Italy for a long anticipated holiday in Rome and Florence. Millie meets Daniel, the "man of her dreams," and has a torrid love affair in the picturesque village of Ravello. However, family histories complicate their relationship, which is fraught with ambiguity, sometimes stormy, sometimes angry and sometimes sensual. While Millie and Daniel pursue a long-distance love affair, a number of serious events rock their lives. Millie eventually overcomes her self-imposed identity crisis and triumphs in an amazing way. Dream Lover is a transforming love story enhanced by the glories of modern and Renaissance Italy.

Detective Inspector Susan Merrick and her beloved Jeremy Atkinson embark on a luxury cruise to celebrate their engagement, with no inkling that murder will be their companion. Although they long for intimacy and privacy, they are thrown together with a very colourful group of travellers. As they begin to enjoy blue skies, calm seas, wonderful food and entertainment, disaster strikes. Two murders in three days bring Susan into sharp conflict with the ship's security service and eventually two members of the Portuguese police, none of whom want her involved. Susan, nevertheless, continues to be embroiled in the investigations, leaving Jeremy wondering about the viability of their impending marriage. The intrigue plays out against the backdrop of a twelve-day cruise across the Atlantic from Fort Lauderdale to Lisbon by way of Nassau and the Azores.
Fans of Susan Merrick will remember her escapades in Hallowed Be Thy Name: A Murder Mystery.

Thirty-nine-year-old Moira Gillespie, a private investigator, flies from Toronto to Bermuda to keep an eye on her middle-aged boss's lovely young wife, Felicia. Almost immediately, Moira becomes embroiled in a drug smuggling case. When a million dollars worth of cocaine disappears, the criminals suspect Moira of knowing where it is, and they will go to any length to find their missing drugs. Moira’s life-long friend, Lucy Carver, who is involved in the illegal activity, disappears. The body of an elderly cruise ship passenger, a drug carrier, is found after she has been missing for several days. Moira's townhouse is broken into, and later her moped is forced off the road, leaving her with serious injuries.
First a suspect, then a decoy, Moira falls in love with Michael Dennis, a Bermuda police inspector who quotes Irish love poetry. As the layers of intrigue unfold, Moira discovers the secret which Lucy has kept hidden since childhood.
Sprinkled throughout the narrative are scenes from an island paradise brought into focus through the eyes and camera of Moira, the tourist.

Detective Inspector Susan Merrick has her hands full when she discovers the body of beautiful Barbara Curtis stabbed to death in a church pew. Her life is further complicated when a second body appears in the church some weeks later. Who is guilty? The young minister cheating on his wife? The schizophrenic drifter whose hallucinations include "a bloody Virgin Mary"? The successful lawyer still in love with his ex-wife? The aging religious zealot protecting her church's good name? The naive, nubile social worker whose marriage plans are now at risk because of her sexual indiscretion? Despite intense romantic liaisons and complex relationships the mystery unfolds to a surprise ending.