Dickens has gone from private investigator to prime suspect…

London, 1850

Charles Dickens is in Manchester, performing at the Queen’s Theatre with his acting group. But his career on the stage is cut short when a man is shot dead – on set.

With Dickens himself caught with the gun in his hands, he is immediately arrested. Along with the...

One of Spain’s biggest scandals is about to be unearthed…

A missing girl is found in a Spanish landfill, brutally murdered. The case is quickly dismissed – she was a known drug user with prior convictions and a history of running off.

But journalist Danny Sanchez knows there more to it. He saw the crime scene pictures, and that was no ordinary...

Two headstrong young women are fighting for their independence…

1861, Northern England

Jessie Davenport, a young mill worker, and Honora Darwen, an orphan determined to follow in her father’s medical footsteps, strike up a friendship in the busy industrial town of Gorbydale.

With whispers of war on the horizon and discontent spreading in the...

How do you solve a murder when you are one of the suspects…

1664, London

Life should be good for Major Thankful Russell and his new bride, Thomazine. Russell, middle-aged and battle-scarred, isn’t everyone’s idea of the perfect husband for an eligible young woman but the moment Thomazine set eyes on her childhood hero, she knew they were destined...

If the killer’s been caught, why are people still turning up dead…?

When Danny Sanchez, a hard-bitten journalist working in Spain, is sent to cover the demolition of the home of an expat couple, he lands a much bigger – and more grisly – story than he bargained for.

During the demolition, a corpse is discovered, dangling in the depths of the...

A brutal murder in Victorian London forces a famous writer to solve the mystery…

London, 1849

Charles Dickens has set up Urania Cottage as a sanctuary for fallen women. But he is shocked when the matron’s assistant – Patience Brooke – is found hanging outside the property, covered in blood.

Desperate to protect the reputation of the Home and...

You can’t outrun murder…

When Lucy Lewis landed herself a reporting job on an idyllic Thai island, she thought she’d found paradise.

But one day her dream turns into a nightmare… A bomb goes off outside her hostel and there is more than one fatality.

Although the local paper she works for is mainly a tourist guide, the phone is soon ringing off...

Boys are going missing from London’s slums…

London, 1849

When a boy is found drowned in the River Thames at Hungerford Stairs, novelist Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones of Bow Street are mystified to discover that the child is not the missing youngster for whom they have been searching.

As Dickens and Jones delve deeper into London’s...

Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets of London. Can anyone stop the serial killer before more women are murdered? 

London, 1888

Whitechapel is full of the noise of August Bank Holiday celebrations. Everyone is in high spirits until a woman – Martha Turner – is discovered brutally murdered.

Her friend, Esther, a lowly seamstress turned female sleuth, is...

Though I’m far away, my thoughts and love are always with you. Take good care of yourself for me, and I’ll do the same for you...

In 1944, James William Hendrickson, Jr. , a young munitions worker, received the devastating news that his fighter-pilot brother, Bill, had been shot down over Germany and taken as a prisoner-of-war. Unable to sit idly by...

Lives are on the line as the workers fight back in the Welsh countryside…

1829, Wales

For centuries. generations of the Jenkins family have eked out a living from their Carmarthenshire hill farm.

But when a fire destroys virtually all of their possessions the children witness their lives crumbling around them. Mary and William find they have...

The scheming Turville family have met their match…

1816, England

The aristocratic Turvilles had always deplored an unfortunate connection with Trade through the marriage twenty years previously of the Baron’s brother with the daughter of a Yorkshire manufacturer.

But, Eugenia, only child of this marriage is not only an orphan — she is also her...

The Magna Carta was supposed to bring peace. Instead, the crown is once more under threat…

England, 1216

King John has lost the English dukedoms of Normandy and Brittany, and the counties of Aquitaine, Poitou, and Anjou, to Philip of France.

He has been excommunicated by Pope Innocent III and though he was been persuaded into signing the Magna Carta...

What dark secrets lurk behind closed doors…?

When Theodore Crozier is found dead the neighbourhood hopes the cause may be suicide, if only to spare further pain for both his dutiful wife Laura and beloved brother Titus.

However there is more to the matter - a whisper of murder… Inspector John Joseph Lintott is...

‘Et tu, Brute?’

From the brutal stabbing of Julius Caesar in Ancient Rome to the murder of an Archduke which triggered the devastation of the First World War to the horrifying shooting of President John F Kennedy, which sent shockwaves around the world, assassinations have plagued the rich and famous since time immemorial.

Rulers, revolutionaries...

Dark secrets lurk behind every door…

The peace of the English countryside is shattered one August morning by the discovery of a skeleton in the boot of a dumped car.

A murder has been uncovered and when Detective Superintendent Pollard and Detective Sergeant Toye arrive on the scene they discover that this hamlet buried deep in the country is not so...

The secrets of the past expose the crimes of the present…

Montreal,

Canada Police officer Michel Chenouda is desperately trying to nail the Lacailles – an infamous and dangerous crime family.

But with one informant assassinated and another key witness to a murder – Georges Donatiens – engaged to the mobster’s daughter, Chenouda’s drugs bust is...

Those grieving for their lost love ones are desperate to communicate with the dead once more. But are they falling prey to unscrupulous fortune hunters? 

Brighton, 1871

Psychics and mediums have become all the rage in fashionable Brighton. But can they really communicate with the dead?

Mina Scarletti, a local authoress, is sceptical. But when her recently...

A dark shadow has been brought from the West Indies to an English estate…

Lord Francis and Lady Ottilia Fanshawe are preparing for the birth of their first child. But Lady Fan won’t let a little thing like pregnancy get in the way of solving a local mystery.

Their neighbour – Sir Joslin Cadel – who recently returned from a sugar plantation...

A threatening presence is stalking a provincial Northern town…

1811, England

Frederick Raif Jarrett has returned from battle and is seeking a quiet life as agent to the Duke of Penrith. 

So when he is sent to the northern town of Woolbridge by the Duke, the dangers of the English countryside could not be more unexpected. 

Jarrett begins to uncover a network of...