Cornwall 1910. On a remote tidal island the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparati..

AD 673. Sister Fidelma and her husband Eadulf are journeying back from the Kingdom of the East Angle..

London 1881. Lily Raynor owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau is growing increasingly worri..

Bombay 1950. For over a century one of the world's great treasures a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Da..

1939. World War II is looming Oswald Mosley has awoken fascist sympathies among the British aristocr..

1939. War has been declared and spymaster Fitzroy wastes no time in preparing his goddaughter Hope f..

October 1604. Plague has hit London and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth'..

Spring 1312. Edward II of England is absorbed with his favourite Peter Gaveston while his wife Isabe..

London August 1881. The World's End Investigation Bureau is thriving and Lily Raynor is delighted to..

On this day of ill omen plague makes its entrance. Within weeks swathes of England will be darkened ..

England 1321. Deep in the countryside lies an isolated village governed by a sinister regime of Owl ..

Paris 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation Detective Eddie Giral struggles to rec..

York railway station December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlo..

1937. War with Germany is dawning and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political li..

On a freezing winter's night the residents of Thorncroft House are roused from their beds by an unex..