Jane Jakeman

Ambrose Malfine

1 - Let There Be Blood (1997)
2 - The Egyptian Coffin (Jun-1998)
3 - Fool's Gold (1999)

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  Let There Be Blood
  

  • 1997
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Ambrose Malfine - 1
  

  In the Kingdom of Mists showcased the talent of Jane Jakeman. In its wake comes the first of the Lord Ambrose historical mystery series, a "cleverly executed" (Yorkshire Post) tale of turn-of-the-last-century murder-and, perhaps worse, wrongful blame...

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  The Egyptian Coffin
  

  • Jun-1998
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Ambrose Malfine - 2
  

  Autumn, 1830. Lilian Westmorland, the spirited young heiress to an estate in England's West Country, has only narrowly survived a devastating riding accident. Her guardian thinks it best that she travel to Egypt, where the warm climate might help her...

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  Fool's Gold
  

  • 1999
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Ambrose Malfine - 3
  

  When Lord Ambrose discovers that Elisabeth is leaving him, he is overcome with loss. She has taken up a post at nearby Jesmond Place, but, within days of her arrival, the young man employed as Sir Jesmond's doctor is poisoned to death. Elisabeth know...

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  Death in the South of France
  

  • Jun-2001
  • / Suspense
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  Cloudless skies, blue sea and a horrifying discovery - the most glamorous boulevard on the French Riviera is about to become the backdrop to a disturbing murder enquiry. When another in a series of mutilated bodies is found on the seafront, the new m...

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  Death at Versailles
  

  • May-2003
  • / Suspense
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  Versailles in August and the small Paris suburb is crowded with tourists visiting the Sun King's famous Chateau. Following her successful conviction of a powerful south-coast gangster, examining magistrate Cecile Galant has been transferred to the re...

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  In the Kingdom of Mists
  

  • Mar-2004
  • / Suspense
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  While Claude Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths, arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper.  Craston, a green diplomat at the Foreign Office, is unwillingly drawn into t...

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  In The City of Dark Waters
  

  • May-2006
  • / Suspense
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  Fleeing the scandal and rumors that plagued them in Paris following a murder, Claude Money and his wife Alice have escaped to Venice, but the dark secrets of the past continue to haunt them when their fellow guest at a Venetian palazzo, Revel Callend...

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