When Joel Sefton, a handsome, charming, and talented young man is found dead--the victim of an apparent mugging--Detective-Superintendent Mike Yeadings uncovers the boy's less attractive side--a side he believes led to his violent end...
Old Lorely Pelling was as queer as two left boots...A reclusive eccentric with a checkered past and dozens of cats, her shooting death is first believed accidental, the result of local boys' target practice. But Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings...
TOXIC LOVE Two disturbing deaths have Superintendent Mike Yeadings's team spread out from the Thames Valley to Amsterdam, looking for answers. The first victim, Penny Winter, a divorced mother of two, dies as a result of food poisoning. Someone...
MALICE AND AFORETHOUGHT When ancient Hadrian Bascombe summons his heirs to his bedside to announce he's bequeathing his vast fortune to just one of them, his malicious intent is to set them at each other's throat. And it worked. Superintendent ...
The commuter village of Fords Green appears to contain ordinary families with ordinary troubles. But beneath the calm surface of this pleasant community swirls a dangerous undertow of jealousy, greed and murder. As Detective-Inspector Angus Mott view...
BLOOD TIES Annette Briers shows up for work on Monday morning and finds a dead stranger in the chair of her boss, Miranda Gregory. Later she learns that Miranda herself was the victim of a hit and run, alive but barely. Detective Superintendent...
Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his team of officers from the Thames River Valley Police Force are called in to investigate a savage murder. When a woman's body is found along the river - strangled, her body mutilated, her blond hair hacked from her...
Mike Yeadings and his police team begin work on the disappearance of a powerful Japanese businessman's daughter and the murder of his chief executive, both of which have caused rising tensions in the industrial town of Thames Valley...
Clare Curzon turns aside temporarily from Inspector Mike Yeadings and crime in today's Thames Valley to bring us to Edwardian England. In this tale of bygone evil and present-day deceit, Curzon demonstrates that she is as adept as delivering a page-t...
With her customary understated style and her keen ability to delve into the human psyche, Clare Curzon returns readers to Thames Valley and Superintendent Mike Yeadings. This time a case that at first glance looks to be open and shut proves more diff...
"When Daniel Winterton's ambitious wife, Caroline, went missing from their country home, leaving her daughter with her nanny, Mike Yeadings was involved as a sergeant in the investigation. He had hopes that the case would advance his career, however ...
Lucy Sedgwick cannot resist investigating a mystery, but finds that crime after crime follows inexorably on its heels. The period is just after the First World War. Psychiatry is in its infancy. Lucy Sedgwick is perhaps a little unwise to rush into a...
The first novel by bestselling crime-writer Clare Curzon, originally published only under the pseudonym of Marie Buchanan and the title Greenshards. Greenshards had been Olive Minton's family home for years, but now it was owned by the Blanchards - t...
"Curzon sets her crimes in the leafy Thames Valley, a lovely enough part of old England where one of the old villages seem right out of a nineteenth-century painting. But people are the same mix of good and bad whatever scenery surrounds them, an...
A woman is found stabbed to death in her car outside a pub, clothed in only a fur coat. Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his Thames Valley team discover that the victim is the new neighbor of Sergeant Rosemary "Z" Zyczynski. The woman, Shei...
Carlton Dellar, the esteemed poet, couldn't have hoped for a more eventful eightieth birthday. His extended family has gathered under the reproachful eye of his wife to celebrate what is silently suspected to be his last year. Hours later, the guests...
One freezing February evening, a Filipino barman named Ramon witnesses someone plunging from the seventh story of a luxury penthouse. Instead of calling the police, he heads straight for the apartment from which the body has fallen. It belongs to an ...
Who’s been dealt the devil’s hand from this Tarot pack? Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his Thames Valley team have to find out When the body of a young woman is discovered hanging upside down from a tree, the village reverberates with whisp...
1921: A young woman wakes in an unfamiliar house with no memory of who she is or where she came from. A child is crying, and instinctively she knows the child is hers, but she doesn't know the identity of the dead man lying in the room next door - or...