March 1587. Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine has opened at the Rose Theatre. But the play is..

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

Everybody they say has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. But under t..

A woman is on trial for her life accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their ..

In the winter of 1942 England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening Councill..

In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from London and sent to the Sussex c..

1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Encl..

1964. Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray ..

On a busy Friday night in 1964 a woman’s body is discovered in London’s Soho Square. She has bee..

The houses in Saffron Lane are being filled with artists thanks to the efforts of Nell and Angus. Gi..

Cut adrift by British Intelligence at the end of the Cold War Jack Case is called back into service ..

The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But th..

Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..

After a family tragedy Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain’s daughter ..

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat her father’s faili..