When a birthday party for one of their Hampstead neighbors turns deadly, Antonia Darcy and Major Hugh Payne end up investigating the murder of one of Melisande Chevret's other guests. The aging actres
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
After Kimberly Guyver and Rachel Golinski's checkered past begins to catch up with them, and Kimberly's young son goes missing, DC Gary Goodhew begins to sift through their lives and uncovers an unset
After a hiker discovers the dead body of a Spanish gypsy recently released from prison, where he served time for murdering his wife, Max Romero and a new judge think even an ex-con outcast deserves an
"The hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard is lured by his blackmailer, Nicholas Ingaza, to the French Auvergne accompanied by stowaways Maurice, a cynical cat, and Bouncer, an enthusiastic dog. There "
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
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
This is the third novel featuring the Reverend Francis Oughterard, vicar of St. Botolph's and genteel murderer of parishioner Mrs. Elizabeth Fotherington. So far eluding arrest (but with fears of imm
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
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
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
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
Dr Reggie Lee, a new arrival at the National Gallery, is organizing a small exhibition around three Caravaggio paintings depicting "St Cecilia and the Angel". One is at the Getty, one at the Louvre, a
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
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
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
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
The year is 1905 and Lord Francis Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately homes. But were these robberies merely for financial gain? Bizarrely, a number of O
When a man with a gun breaks into her school, nursery teacher Louise Kennedy knows there's not likely to be a happy ending ... But Jaime isn't there on a homicidal whim, and is as scared as the hosta
When one of mystery writer Antonia Darcy's admiring readers, Bee Ardleigh, becomes over friendly, Antonia finds it just a bit of a bore, but when she and husband Major Hugh Payne are persuaded to visi
For Chris Honeysett, artist and private investigator in the city of Bath, autumn threatens to bring down more than just the roof of his studio. An exceptionally stormy October forms the backdrop to A