Mr Justice Craythorne is convinced that Janice Beaton is a wicked woman and sentences her to three years in prison - but later he is to discover just how wicked she is. After kidnapping the judge's baby grandson, she proceeds to terrorise his family....
After a car accident shatters the lives of Mike and Penny Craven, the ex-racing car driver's morale is low. However, when he sees a young woman attacked by thugs and rescues her, his life begins to take on a new meaning. But soon his courage, his ski...
Fiona Graham, a physiotherapist, is found naked and lying face down in the swimming pool of Croxley Hall health farm where she worked. The coroner's verdict: accidental death by drowning. However, both her father and Golding, the forensic pathologist...
Janet Creswell had been matron at Brantwood, a boys' preparatory school in 1944, and now she was contacted by Richard Medley, a former university professor and pupil at the school. As a result of the meeting, doubts now arise about the presumed accid...
Professor Helen Vaughan, one of the foremost scientists in the field of DNA research and still only in her middle thirties, is found slumped over her desk in her office at the City Hospital, having been bludgeoned to death by a severe blow to the sid...
With her parents desperately worried by her moods, withdrawn behavior, and possible drug use, 16-year-old Sophie Hammond is sent as a boarder to a coeducational private school. A talented swimmer, she appears to be sett...
Kate Farrant, chairperson of a medical charity, rings for an ambulance, having been overcome by a severe gastrointestinal disorder during the night in the basement apartment of her gambling club. When she dies in the hospital 10 days later, the foren...
Consultant psychiatrist James Cochrane is found early one morning by his neighbor. He has suffered a head injury and drowned in his goldfish pond. Cochrane is well known to be in serious dispute with one of his colleagues, Dr. Audrey Clements, over t...
When prominent neurosurgeon Richard Kershaw is found dead in his house on a Sunday afternoon, his friends and family are shocked. Before his killer is discovered, however, a darker side to Kershaw's character is revealed. As his secrets unravel, the ...
Welbury was a quiet country town in the Thames Valley - until Linda Baines, the daughter of a local landowner's chauffeur, was found in a wood near her home. Had she also been raped or, as the forensic pathologist believed, been positioned to make it...
When Jennifer Prentice, a student nurse, was found dead in a locked bathroom, Inspector Newton went to St. Aldhelm's Hospital to investigate...Newton finds the Matron, Miss Diana Digby Scott, unapproachable. Why was Alison Carter so disliked by Jenni...
During the worst 'flu epidemic for fifty years, a student nurse is found dead in her room. But Golding, the forensic pathologist, believes that this wasn't as a consequence of the virulent infection… Under suspicion are the senior physician, revere...