1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Encl..

The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But th..

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat her father’s faili..

In Victorian London race-walking or “wobbles” are all the rage. So on a Monday morning in Novemb..

Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel this story is narrated by insurance investigator Ra..

1910. Sir Thomas Pitt's son Daniel is in the middle of his first case as a barrister when he is summ..

After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper former Detective I..

1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen’s convenience cubicle at the British ..

Returning from a much-needed holiday Persimmon “Simmy” Brown discovers that life in the Lake Dis..

Simmy Brown had hoped that her autumn would be less frantic than usual to give her a chance to enjoy..

When DS Charlotte Banks is suspended from the police on suspicion of assaulting a suspect in the bur..

When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard it seems like an acci..

Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: headbutted by a horse as she protested against the local hunt...

When the body of a herdsman is discovered in a farm building Detective Sergeant Den Cooper is more t..

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. Having spent his life ta..