…to date: the rescue of a celebrated tapestry-maker turned spy from inside the fortified Bastille – the pride of a despotic France. Now alone behind enemy-lines, the undaunted Rawson must…

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…you do things Johnny’s way and plead ‘D’n D’ – deaf and dumb.   Terry, seen by most as a slow-witted, washed-up fighter, is happy to do any work he…

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When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as…

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Lara Perryman has spent her whole life travelling for her busy corporate job, so it’s a relief when she takes early retirement and settles in a leisure village in Wiltshire….

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During World War I, the ancient manor house of Greyladies in rural Wiltshire is requisitioned for a hospital. Its mistress, Harriet Latimer, her husband Joseph and their two sons are…

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Julie Monday, abandoned by her mother and raised in a children’s home, enjoys a rare moment of happiness when at the age of eight she visits the Essex seaside and…

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Manchester, 1908. Attractive, intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will never promote her, simply because she is a woman. Despite financial support from her family,…

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Clare Hills, archaeologist and sometime sleuth, is struggling to finance her recently established university research institute along with her long-time friend, Dr David Barbrook. When Professor Margaret Bockford finds the…

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Returning from a much-needed holiday, Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown discovers that life in the Lake District is, as ever, far from relaxing. Before she can enjoy the idea of being the…

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…not like Grimshaw’s old farm building – surely such an eyesore will mean their properties will depreciate in value? And so the war begins…complaints, petty obstruction, each inhabitant with his…

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  A West Country Mystery   When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, at first it seems like an accident – despite the…

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It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square — a place of many memories — she…

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Following a sanguinary affray on the outskirts of London Sir Leonard Wallace, the famous Chief of the Secret Service, found evidence of an anarchist organisation headed by a man called…

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It’s 1899 and strange things are happening in Edinburgh. The arrival of a circus seems to set in train a terrible series of events: the death of a clerk during…

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…was that while they were trying to find the Tulip – and trying not to fall in love in the process – the Black Tulip was watching them… Recommend This:…

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September, 1914. Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Mrs Evans’ prestigious gown shop in Southampton. Hard-working and well-liked by customers, she has also started to take on a…

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Southampton, 1912. Jessie is just nineteen when her father passes away and her mother decides to return to her native Ireland. But Jessie, headstrong and independent, prefers to take charge…

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Abigail Beadle has given two decades of her life to first caring for her father who has developed Parkinson’s, then, at his request as his health fails completely, looking after…

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Thea Slocombe is struggling to entertain her stepchildren through the long summer holiday while her husband Drew works, so she keenly accepts a new job house-sitting in Barnsley, near Bibury….

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In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn’t have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross’s…

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…particularly the missionaries – for the nation’s ills, are rampaging through the country, killing any foreigners. China’s Dowager Empress – ‘The Dragon Lady’ – secretly encourages them. Into this maelstrom…

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