Historical Detective Novels

When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own. Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are t …

Once there was a time when Romagna was named Flaminia and the Rubicon was not only a river. When in 49 BCE Julius Caesar arrived he found waiting for him a wooden palisade coloured ruby red where he …

Liverpool. May 1970. The students' occupation of the University has now ended, and an expert librarian is summoned to restore the order amongst tomes and papers. What he discovers, though, will p …

1927 Hollywood: Where flickering shadows hide sinister secrets.  The silent film era is gasping its last breath, choked by the advent of sound.  But a different kind of silence has fallen o …

November 1878. London is shrouded in a fog as thick as ink, a chilling backdrop for a macabre scene unfolding within the hallowed halls of the Royal Academy of Arts.  Young artist Thomas Mc Kenz …

Florence, 1677. While Sam assumes a new identity as part of his mother’s Cardinale family, Raphael introduces his new family to his Florentine one, only to unearth life-changing revelations. Meanwhil …

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves …

An unsettling contemporary mystery with a historical twist and fast-paced plot, from the author of the Jen Shaw series. Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs a …

Edo, 1788. A city of fleeting pleasures and shadowy secrets. Beneath the geishas’ painted smiles, a chilling dread hangs heavy in the air.  Unexplained deaths ripple through the elite, each vict …

When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels acro …