Constable Gil Cunningham investigates the poisoning of an actor in a festive play, who was given drops by a fellow actor playing an apothecary, but when other deaths follow he begins to suspect a real
"The hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard is lured by his blackmailer, Nicholas Ingaza, to the French Auvergne accompanied by stowaways Maurice, a cynical cat, and Bouncer, an enthusiastic dog. There "
A latest entry in the popular series finds Sandor Seymour of the Foreign Office traveling from early 20th-century London to Malta, where he investigates a possible link between a hot air balloon crash
DI Liam McLusky, freshly transferred from Southampton to Bristol and just recovered from an injury in the line of duty, has no time to settle in before catching a major case. Everyday objects that hav
"Smart, ambitious. . . . A pleasingly different police procedural."?Kirkus Reviews"This debut mystery by a British nonfiction crime writer accelerates like a train speeding to its destination. Highly
After Kimberly Guyver and Rachel Golinski's checkered past begins to catch up with them, and Kimberly's young son goes missing, DC Gary Goodhew begins to sift through their lives and uncovers an unset
After a hiker discovers the dead body of a Spanish gypsy recently released from prison, where he served time for murdering his wife, Max Romero and a new judge think even an ex-con outcast deserves an
"[A] compelling tale, richly embroidered with complex characters and multiple plot threads. Highly recommended."?Library Journal, starred reviewInspector Max Romero investigates the death of a Muslim
Dr Reggie Lee, a new arrival at the National Gallery, is organizing a small exhibition around three Caravaggio paintings depicting "St Cecilia and the Angel". One is at the Getty, one at the Louvre, a
Lorna Spence knows she is clever. She thinks she is in control. And she's sure that she is loved...She believes each of these things until the moment she realizes she's going to die.DC Gary Goodhew i
It seemed like the answer to their prayers; a cash-in-hand residential job in a part of the country where no one would know them. To single mother Bridget Sweeny and her daughter it means a fresh sta
Barcelona in 1912 is a city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the c
August 1939, and as England basks in the last hot days of a perfect summer it seems that war is inevitable, this week, next week ... very soon. Lord Edward Corinth, newly married, is determined to sp
While dropping his neice off at a chateau on his way to the French Riviera for vacation, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands finds his vacation on hold when he encounters the case of a missing chil
Forensic psychologist Dill Kennedy has given up police work to enjoy a quiet Life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge, but when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI
Following the more than slight embarrassment of having murdered a lady parishioner, the hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard is now plunged into the world of art crime. Forced by the shady Nicholas In
It is midsummer 1923 and Isabelle's parents are celebrating their silver wedding with a fabulous ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex. Isabelle has a dilemma some might envy: two men, the
In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to
It's springtime in Paris and Joe Sandilands has just flown in to attend an Interpol conference. To his annoyance, he is at once diverted to the Quai des Orfevres where a fellow Englishman has been ar
