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A tale of greed, ambition and thwarted love in eighteenth-century Leeds -July, 1732. On a hot summer morning, Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, is called out when a young woman is found stabbed to death among the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey. In her pocket is a love note: "Soon we'll be together...

When a young country lad requests the Constable’s help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually end up as prostitutes – or worse. The following day, the young man is found dead, his throat slit. The evening before his...

A Liberty Lane mystery - Autumn, 1839. As the London nights darken, rumours spread about the devil’s chariot, which preys on young women walking alone at night. Novice private investigator Liberty Lane has no time for such horror stories, so when a poetic young man begs her to find his missing fiancée,...

A missing man leads Jack Haldean straight into danger . . .Mark Helston, the rising star of Hunt Coffee Limited, was successful and popular, with plenty of money and everything to live for. Yet at half past seven on the evening of the ninth of January, 1925, he walked out of his Albemarle Street flat...

Things aren't going too well at home for Roger the Chapman and his wife, Adela. Their fourth child has died only days after being born and Roger fails to conceal his feelings of relief at having one less mouth to feed. Adela naturally resents his attitude and their bitter arguments become increasingly...

In this mystery, British Detective Fran Harman’s professional and private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden.   Det. Chief Inspector Fran Harman and her fiancé, Asst. Chief Constable Mark Turner, have their hands full preparing for their wedding and renovating the rectory...

An infamous nineteenth-century photograph is the key to a modern murder mystery in this “clever psychological thriller” from the Edgar Award winner (Library Journal, starred review). In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salomé—writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale—appears with Friedrich...

An open-and-shut case becomes one of Inspector Alvarez’s knottiest investigations in a mystery that “will have you . . . longing for a Majorcan cookbook” (Kirkus Reviews). Inspector Alvarez is just considering whether he can surreptitiously leave work early when a colleague calls to tell...

The English PI with “a biting wit” returns to dig up the dirty secrets of a celebrity archaeologist in this delightful mystery series (Kirkus Reviews). Being a bodyguard isn’t Chris Honeysett’s thing. He’s more of a destitute artist type. When he isn’t an out-of-work private investigator...

The death of a mysterious stranger puts Inspector Alvarez back on the case in “a delightful and entertaining series that never seems to lose a step” (Booklist).   Inspector Enrique Alvarez of the Majorca police department is in a good mood, for once. The October sun is shining, no one interrupted...

An eccentric detective finds sun, sand, and murder in this “fun read with sharp wit, a lovable hero, and an intoxicating glimpse of Majorcan life” (Booklist).   Inspector Alvarez is rudely awakened from his afternoon siesta by a phone call reporting the death of one Señor Picare, a wealthy Englishman...

A church party turns deadly for antiques dealer Lina Townend when she thwarts a thief in this British mystery. Helping out at a church fête is about the last thing Lina Townend wants to do on a beautiful summer’s afternoon. But since the vicar is an old friend, Lina finds herself agreeing...

During the last days of World War I, Det. Inspector Ernest Hardcastle is encumbered with a complicated murder investigation. March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Divisional Det. Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police,...

In this thrilling mystery, a broken engagement leads a woman to an isolated Welsh hotel—where she finds peace, healing, and a criminal conspiracy. For Clare Laurie, breaking off her engagement to Philip, left only remorse and feelings of guilt, rather than the relief and freedom she craved....