Canada, 1898, and the Gold Rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they’re lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement. In the middle of this, three women are trying to survive on the edge of civilisation. Journalist Kate has travelled hundreds of miles after […]
The Star of Ceylon by Clare Flynn
It’s Ceylon in 1906, and Stella Polegate steps off the ship in Colombo harbour, her heart beating with contradictory emotions. As her father’s unofficial research assistant, she’s thrilled to explore this island of ancient temples and verdant tea plantations — yet painfully aware that her brilliant mind will remain uncredited, her academic ambitions dismissed simply […]
Conscript’s Call by Griff Hosker
England, 1940, and when 17-year-old John Sharratt’s life is shattered by a single, devastating bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe, he is thrust into a world of loss and longing. With his family gone and his heart heavy, John’s conscription into the army offers a refuge and a new beginning, even in the face of turmoil. […]
A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor
In May, 1945, Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely, decaying grounds have witnessed a murder. Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, left for the holidays and never came back. Both teachers and girls assume she simply walked […]
Encore For Murder by TA Belshaw
Amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings is pulled into one of her most puzzling cases yet. How can a man be murdered twice? When gang member Lonnie Firth turns up dead, again, Amy joins forces with Inspector Bodkin to untangle a web of deception, rival gangs, and dangerous alliances. From the seductive and deadly Bessie Dagger to […]
Secrets of the Bees by Jane Johnson
Time has forgotten this remote corner of West Cornwall, and left its many secrets undisturbed. Until now… Ezra Curnow has lived in the little cottage on the Trengrose estate all his life. He was born there, as was hisfather, and his grandfather before that. It is his own little Cornish paradise. Then the mistress of […]
Costanza by Rachel Blackmore
In the scorched city of Rome, in 1636, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin. Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife — until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society, whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set eyes upon each other, a fatal […]
A Thief’s Blood by Douglas Skelton
A family is found butchered in a dismal room in the Rookery, London’s poorest district. Not even their small children are left alive. Most of the authorities pay scant attention, except for Thieftaker General Jonathan Wild. Intrigued by this development, Colonel Nathaniel Charters tasks his most trusted operative, Jonas Flynt, with discovering why. When another […]