London 1928. Lucy Darkwether has always made her own rules. After breaking off her engagement to pur..

Summer 1948. London swelters amid post-war reconstruction while continued rationing and the black-ma..

Spring 1261. In Rome Pope Alexander lies dying. Across Europe in Oxford's Oseney Abbey ambitious Bis..

Welcome to Kent 1797. Following many years apart Jane Austen is set to spend the summer with her est..

The year is AD 673. Fidelma accompanies Eadulf to his hometown Seaxmund's Ham in the Kingdom of the ..

When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall he feels his..

In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh's Old Town 16 people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox'..

In November 1944 Bologna's bomb-scarred streets are filled with starving refugees fleeing the advanc..

1950. Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the known mis..

London 1894. Inspector Henry Cutter is in an unconvivial temper. Then the murders begin. The first t..

London April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a ..

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite Peter Gaveston unleashes a horde of dem..

Yorkshire 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the p..

March 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with b..

January 1939. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a robbery on t..