The pioneer life, seen through one boy s eyes. The Oregon Trail was full of danger & discomfort. The covered wagons were so bumpy that most pioneers preferred to walk, & hundreds died of cholera on the 2,000-mile journey. Still, thousands of men, wom...
Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. They lie, three elderly recluses shot to death, in a musty 1950s London town house crammed with hoarded belongings. When the death scene yields no clues, the police...
DEADLY LEGACY It was a media circus that only the British tabloids can create: the kidnapping of beautiful Susan Blackstock by a radical group -- and the refusal of her multimillionaire husband to pay the 10-million-pound ransom. Eight-year-old Do...
England, 1944: In a time of unparalleled fear, youngsters everywhere sought sanctuary in M. M. Haldane's magical books, where no danger was ever great enough to prevent her hero from returning safely home to tea. But when her own son, Gerald, went...
Alice Conway's world was shattered when her fiance, famous comic Lenny Maxted, committed suicide. Now it's seven years later, and Alice is living quietly on an isolated farm in Oxfordshire, trying to forget the pain of her past--until an anonymous cl...
London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work...
From the award-winning author of The Innocent Spy comes the next book in this exceptional series set in WWII London Summer, 1944. After almost five years of conflict, London's inhabitants are exhausted. War-weary DI Ted Stratton is no exception, b...
Beautiful Diana Calthrop was last seen breaking hearts in The Innocent Spy as an MI5 operative in the finest couture. But it's now several years on, and Diana is looking a little tarnished, her catastrophic taste in men catching up at last. Could ...
It's 1956 and the world is in turmoil―the Bikini Atoll, the Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising―these are just some of the events of that year Inspector Ted Stratton can't help but think about as he makes his way through a murder investigation. T...
A sudden death exposes three generations of family secrets in this gripping, atmospheric psychological thriller for fans of Clare Mackintosh, Belinda Bauer and B A Paris.Janice Keaton is living a quiet, easy life when a longed-for reunion with the da...