A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a mu..

Feisty journalist Isabella has never known the truth about her family. Escaping from a dangerous ass..

Albert Entwistle was a postman. It was one of the few things everyone knew about him. And it was one..

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

July 1556. Jack Blackjack spends the night at a Devon tavern agrees to a game of dice - and ends up ..

One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's wedding day to Christopher Henderson has arrived on a glorious summer's da..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

Dublin November 1856. George Little the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus is found de..

High above the Mediterranean on the French Riviera stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a play..

At a costume party with the dubious theme of 'famous murderers and their victims' the know-it-all am..

An honest policeman Sergeant Wigan escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and..

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine with scores of treatises reviews..

More than 50 years ago Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caugh..