The Female Detective was published in 1864 and introduces the first professional female detective in..

Who would want to kill widowed mother of two Ellen Tailor a seemingly innocent inoffensive woman and..

Summer has come to Windermere where Persimmon ?Simmy? Brown runs her own florist shop. But the shop ..

November 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn ..

1818 Carluke Lancashire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Bat..

DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a chi..

Why did literary legend Wynn Staniland suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopp..

June 1554. Professional assassin Jack Blackjack has been despatched to the palace of Woodstock where..

'The horror on the train great though it may turn out to be will not compare with the horror that ex..

Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel this story is narrated by insurance investigator Ra..

July 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College the school for e..

?Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder..

May 1588. With Elizabeth I?s court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key unde..

When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard DS Wesley Peter..

In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett vicar?s wife Monica Noble throws a party for the vi..