Berenger Fripper thought that returning to England and taking holy orders would be the peace that he needed after his experiences on the battlefields of France, but realising that such peace is nowhere to be found, her returns to the life that he, at least, understands. But with a fragile stalemate – the Treaty of […]

Cristie Lansing had two problems. Firstly, she couldn’t spell her forename, but her main problem was the fact that she had been madly in love with Steven Hazard for the best part of her adult life – a man who was unfortunately married to the manipulative Sara. After a fortunate “accident”, Sara drives her car […]

The death of a colleague’s husband – albeit in name only – leads Minnie Ward from the Variety Palace Theatre and private investigator Albert Easterbrook to begin the hunt for a murderer. The trail soon(ish) leads them to a strange society of spiritualists, the Spirit Sisterhood, but this starts to push a wedge between Minnie […]

St Orran’s Cove, five miles from Penmouth on the west coast of England, is usually a peaceful fishing town, but it has come to the attention of Desmond Merrion, a Captain of Naval Intelligence, as the source of information that is being received by the enemy. He promptly sends one of his best agents to […]

“I sometimes do things that will expose the weakness of the police theory. I sometimes cross-examine a witness to bring them face to face with physical conditions which demonstrate the fallacy of his testimony, but I don’t go around planting evidence in order to compound murders!” But that is exactly what Hamilton Berger believes that […]

April is here – it’s been a busy month at work and I’m currently struggling with an end-of-term (technically start-of-holiday) cold. Hopefully by the time this posts, it will have disappeared and I can get on with plenty more reading, um, I mean all the household and gardening jobs that I need to do. Meanwhile, […]

Things have changed a tad on the island of Saint-Marie. Detective Inspector Mervin Wilson has discovered he has a brother, Commissioner Selwyn Patterson has resumed his role as the oldest serving police officer in the world and Officer Darlene Curtis has left the island to be replaced by Sergeant Mattie Fletcher, an officer with a […]

On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, in England, Colonel Richard Kinsmere decides to entertain and distract his grandchildren with the story of his grandfather, Roderick “Devil” Kinsmere at the court of King Charles II. It’s a story of adventure, of duels, of heroisom, of night-time rides and perilous ship journeys. A tale of […]

Louise Fuller, the esteemed actress, has decided to accept the offer of a lead role in a play for the BBC, The Schoolmistress, despite the fact that her co-lead will be the equally well-known Robert Strang. She knows Strang of old, having conducted an off-and-on again affair with him. Eventually she broke away from him […]

Adrian Delafield lived a reclusive life. A famed artist, he lived with his housekeeper Trimming, an overzealous controlling presence who is at odds with Delafield’s sister. But even with the tensions that visitors sense, no one is really prepared for when a visiting doctor has to break the unanswered door down only to find Delafield […]