1894. Mr Simeon Crosby a retired executioner comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk..

Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth happen upon a road accident where the driver Bernard Potter ..

As the winter of 1323 descends upon a windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor who could blame the y..

On their return home from their pilgrimage Baldwin and Simon's ship is attacked off the coast of the..

After their gruelling journeys to Galicia and Scilly Baldwin and Simon are at last back on the Engli..

London 1929. In the darkness before dawn a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unload..

London 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden featuring Hanna..

Brighton 1957. Mirabelle Bevan can't resist a cry for help be it the little girl at a seaside sanato..

Scottish Highlands 1958. Britain is awash in Cold War anxiety as Mirabelle Bevan heads for the Highl..

While watching the opera at La Fenice Nancy Tremayne is shocked to see a woman fall to her death. Bu..

Yorkshire 1930. Kate Shackleton arrives at the garden party with her niece Harriet to celebrate the ..

It’s a busy time of the year for Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth - there’s the Michaelma..

February 1665. With winter passing Mercia Blakewood is at last headed back to England from America h..

Mirza is a known collaborator and blackmailer. When he is murdered in his garden clutching a branch ..

Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles the man her family hope will res..