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This is a cosy crime mystery with a difference – where you’re the detective! Read the story and then use your powers of deduction to identify the killer as well as their method and motive for a chance to win £500

The September sun was still warm when I reached the familiar stretch of beach. I glanced up at a messy display of cotton-wool clouds in the sky. They were bobbing randomly overhead and I almost felt I

When people talk about soulmates, most mean their partners. Not me. My sister, Sarah, was my soulmate. Although we had three half-sisters, Paula, Sharon and Debbie, from my parents’ previous relations

ISOBEL could tell her six-year-old pupil Angela hadn’t been practising. Having clomped her way through her scales, she was stumbling painfully through her pieces. Isobel tried to think of some encoura

This precious metal is said to help reduce skin ageing thanks to its antioxidant properties. When used in cosmetics, gold is usually in colloidal form (a gold solution in water) or used as fine partic

Follow our easy plan to get your feast on the table using just one oven… THE DAY BEFORE ■ Prepare the turkey, butternut squash, stuffing balls, gravy stock, sprout gratin, and trifle (except cream lay