Books by Stuart Bell

Two female lovers separate. Alone in her apartment, surrounded by books and memories, the narrator learns to heal her wounds as the days pass by. Written in the form of a personal diary, the collection Yo-Yo Heart is made up of five parts, each a rite of passage, as the voice moves through the main stages of grief.

Discovering a murder on your last day as a police officer could be considered unlucky. Sergeant Mags Woods was at first sure that it was a joke by her colleagues, but the body was still, and definitely dead! Her intuition and experience told her that all was not as it seemed, but the evidence pointed in the opposite direction. Simple heart attack, no case to deal with. In retirement Mags is convinced that a vital clue has been missed. A meeting with a stranger, a few chance words, and her imagination runs riot. As she gets closer to the truth, not even Mags is prepared for the shocks and surprises of a mystery, that may well change her life forever.