1952. B-list movie star Louise Wilde’s acting career has stalled and her marriage is on shaky ground when she learns she’s inherited the entire estate of screenwriter Florence Daniels, a…

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Sarah has been married and widowed three times and seen great success in her business life. Now at the age of ninety-four, she signs her final will and testament pleased…

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…that weakness is black-haired women – his ‘petals’ of the Tulip. A natural at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn…

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A West Country Mystery   It’s with mixed motives that Karen Slocombe’s cousin Penn pays her a visit one summer Sunday. Not only does Penn want to renew contact with…

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…type of warfare – hit-and-run guerrilla tactics, fought across the veldt and leaving the British ‘Khakis’ plodding and bruised in their wake. British General Kitchener persuades Simon Fonthill, fresh from…

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A devastating accident is only the start of Emily Mattison’s troubles… When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin,…

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Thea Slocombe, née Osborne, is trying to settle into normal, domestic life with Drew and his two children in Broad Campden. But in the course of an attempt to make…

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When Thea Osborne agrees to house-sit for Oliver Meadows, she expects a few days of peace and quiet. Unsure of how to deal with her feelings for Drew Slocombe, Thea…

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Wiltshire, December 1915. Olivia Hanbury is widowed and has been persuaded by her cousin Donald to move in with his meek little wife while he is serving in France. When…

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…illicit attraction to Genevieve – an attraction that hasn’t faded with time. But it’s Drew’s reputation for amateur detective work that Genevieve is now interested in. With reasons of her…

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…involving Eleanor Roosevelt, the American president’s First Lady. To protect Eleanor’s life – and possibly the safety of all of London – Maisie must quickly uncover the connection. Recommend This:…

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When Milo Ames receives a troubling letter from his childhood nanny, Madame Nanette, he and Amory travel to Paris where they are soon embroiled in a mystery surrounding the death…

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    When Gordon Tilson falls victim to an online scam, he finds himself alone in the whirlwind city of Accra. But his decision to confront those responsible leads him…

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Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1862, is better known as The Elephant Man.   Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent…

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June 1144. When the naked corpse of an unknown man is discovered and the Prince of Powys’s messenger fails to reach Earl Robert of Gloucester, Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin head…

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1909, Seattle. At the World’s Fair a half-Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle’s famed Red Light…

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Sarah Jane Fearing, the sole offspring of a father who desperately wants a male heir, has grown up in the imposing rural mansion of one of England’s most influential banking…

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1859. St Mary’s Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of Cedric Norton,…

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June, 1917. While German Gotha bombers raid London from above, a man’s body is fished from the Thames below. The man had been garrotted and his tongue cut out before…

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Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushes…

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An unexpected inheritance from her grandmother offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering…

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