DI Liam McLusky, freshly transferred from Southampton to Bristol and just recovered from an injury in the line of duty, has no time to settle in before catching a major case. Everyday objects that hav
The churning politics of Trieste in 1906 provide the perfect backdrop for murder in the first in a series set in British embassies and consulates in the early 1900s featuring Special Branch officer Se
Following an acrimonious split from her husband, Helen Pascoe decides to take her three children away from London to live in a lovely old house on the coast near Falmouth in Cornwall. The family sett
When two young boys find a woman's body in a quarry, Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham experience a definite feeling of deja vu.Five years earlier, four women were found murdered in exactly the same
One quiet evening in Oxford, a house near Sarah Tucker's explodes. The reported cause is a gas leak, but when a little girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah—a young married woman, bored with her lif
In February 1939 it is clear that Britain will soon be at war. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler has failed. The nation looks to Winston Churchill whose years in the wild
In 1907, a pilgrim is killed in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. More deaths plague pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Powerscourt's
Barcelona in 1912 is a city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the c
Seb Rolvenden is a writer, living alone in a lighthouse on the Essex coast. On his grandfather's death he discovers some papers which reveal that, as a young man, Seb's grandfather was involved in the
“In this excellent novel, Dickinson weaves a tale of blackmail and murder among the royals late in Victoria's reign. . . . [His] knowledge of the arts, history and literature is nothing if not exhaust
It seemed like the answer to their prayers; a cash-in-hand residential job in a part of the country where no one would know them. To single mother Bridget Sweeny and her daughter it means a fresh sta
It's springtime in Paris and Joe Sandilands has just flown in to attend an Interpol conference. To his annoyance, he is at once diverted to the Quai des Orfevres where a fellow Englishman has been ar
1493. When the peat-cutters came to report the dead man, Gil Cunningham was up in the roof-space of his mother's house, teaching his new young wife swordplay.The finders believe the corpse in the peat
Praise for Mick Herron: "[An] assured mystery. . . . Herron does a nice job of planting red herrings and making his heroine’s amateur sleuthing plausible."—Publishers Weekly "In Sm
A latest entry in the popular series finds Sandor Seymour of the Foreign Office traveling from early 20th-century London to Malta, where he investigates a possible link between a hot air balloon crash
Constable Gil Cunningham investigates the poisoning of an actor in a festive play, who was given drops by a fellow actor playing an apothecary, but when other deaths follow he begins to suspect a real
Powerscourt investigates a murder at a Fenland society wedding, and his research takes him to the heart of the burgundy wine trade in France, where he discovers professional malpractice and bitter tra
August 1939, and as England basks in the last hot days of a perfect summer it seems that war is inevitable, this week, next week ... very soon. Lord Edward Corinth, newly married, is determined to sp
A murder in Istanbul is entangled with international politics and deadly secrets when an embassy official is shot trying to swim the Dardanelles Straits. Special Branch officer Seymour’s inv
In 1913, a poisoned cat, an exiled Sultan, and a new vision of an ascendant Greece threaten the Balkans with utter chaos and war. Something has to be done, and fast. Who was behind the feline poisonin
Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to North Africa? Isn’t the death of a Frenchman there a matter for the local police? But in the run-up to the First World War, everything is connecte
Praise for the Sergeant Cribb series:“Sgt. Cribb and Constable Thackeray . . . went on to star in seven additional Victorian mystery novels and became the subjects of one of the first, and m
George Lassiter is ill, destitute and desperate. Desperate enough to break into the kitchen of a stranger's house for warmth, food and shelter. And there, on that bitterly cold night in 1922, he witne
"Another hearty meal stuffed with fascinating period tidbits and a satisfying mystery."—Kirkus Reviews“McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history in this suspenseful medieval murder tale.”—Boo
In Sir William's remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years later, no older - and if he isn't Davie Drummond
Death threats start arriving in the mail, and legendary French diva Corinne seeks refuge at her godmother's country estate. Other house guests include Antonia Darcy and her husband, Corinne’s dominati
“Here’s another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls
Lorna Spence knows she is clever. She thinks she is in control. And she's sure that she is loved...She believes each of these things until the moment she realizes she's going to die.DC Gary Goodhew i
The investigation into the murder of a beautiful Muslim girl spirals into terrorist outrage in Granada, Spain's most exotic city. Sub-inspector Max Romero is asked to help investigate the death of Le
“This entertaining period mystery, set in Victorian England, is lively, lurid, amusing.”—Publishers Weekly“These are humorous novels and the humour is character
“McIntosh's characterizations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.”—Publishers Weekly“The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.”—Historical Novels R
“McIntosh's characterizations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series.”—Publishers Weekly“The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.”—Historical Novels R
Following the more than slight embarrassment of having murdered a lady parishioner, the hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard is now plunged into the world of art crime. Forced by the shady Nicholas In
It is midsummer 1923 and Isabelle's parents are celebrating their silver wedding with a fabulous ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex. Isabelle has a dilemma some might envy: two men, the
In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to
The shocking discovery of a body at the local music college, teeth smashed in, and a copy of a psalm lying by its side, causes members of the Northridge Abbey Chorus to panic and the harmony of the a
Forensic psychologist Dill Kennedy has given up police work to enjoy a quiet Life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge, but when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI
Private investigator Harry Lind doesn't believe in ghosts and so doesn't think twice about the ramblings of a drunken old hack. Little Grace Harper went missing over twenty years ago and missing girl
