Singapore/Malaya, 1892: Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth, orphaned, middle-aged and gimlet-eyed, travels to Malacca to meet a mysterious woman who claims his mother is alive, only to find a British Resident has been brutally murdered and a Singapore police expedition has vanished in the jungle.
Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardNominated for the 2014 Victoria Book PrizeAn Englishwoman s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind.
Death and danger await intrepid nun Hildegard of Meaux when she undertakes a secret mission for the good of her Order, in this eleventh action-packed installment of the medieval mystery series.
Finding themselves in a slave community hidden within the Great Dismal Swamp, Will Rees and his wife Lydia get caught up in a dangerous murder case where no one trusts them.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, a mismatched group of passengers flee across the Atlantic to escape Britain and - thousands of feet in the air - find themselves facing grave danger.
A midwife disappears after attending the birth of a child in another community, leading to an investigation that uncovers innumerable lies and secrets.
'Extremely intriguing with intricate twists and turns' Frederick ForsythWhen maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother - even if the murderer is inside the police.
Another colourful, action-packed Victorian detective novel about the exploits of agent Mary QuinnAt a young age, Mary Quinn is rescued from the gallows and taken to Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls.