Rhonda and Barbara 'Baby' Bird are half-sisters - and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they're accused of being PIs who can't tell a client from a killer. The Bird sisters share a late father, but...

Often, just one line can turn a difficult situation around or stop trouble in its tracks - I decide who pushes my buttons. I'll forgive myself right now. I'm sorry if I gave you the impression you could talk to me like that. I understand you completely, and I would like something else. This isn't against you, it's for me. Drawing on more than two decades' experience as a leadership and life coach, Karin Kuschik demonstrates how a well-chosen sentence...

When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared room above - the kind of life they never imagined possible and that risks

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DSI William Lorimer first meets Meredith St Claire when he is giving a careers talk at his goddaughter's school. The popular and glamorous drama teacher is distraught, begging him to investigate her fiancé's recent disappearance, but with a report already made to the relevant authorities, there's nothing more Lorimer can do. But then a body is discovered on the outskirts of Glasgow. Guy Richmond was a wealthy and charismatic actor, adored by everyone....

One in four UK women workers say they're currently unable to manage the levels of pressure and stress they're experiencing, 81% of women have felt so stressed at some point over the last year they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope, compared to 67% of men, and according to Forbes; 60% of women who juggle work and caregiving responsibilities are now providing more care than before the pandemic. These stresses and demands are something that Denise is...