Mrs Laetitia Rodd is the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon: she is also a private detective of the..

When a body is discovered in a burnt-out barn in the Warwickshire countryside DI Will Jackman is cal..

Thailand 1943: Thomas Ellis is a prisoner-of-war on the Death Railway. In stifling heat he endures e..

Detective Sergeant Ash Rashid has a steady job and a healthy family. Three hundred days sober he can..

London 1869: The body of a middle-aged man is found tangled in a mass of rope and wooden wreckage ne..

The Devil's House a crumbling Ottoman mansion once the home of a princess is a place associated with..

Agatha Christie in London to visit her agent boards a train preoccupied in the knowledge that her hu..

Hunter Davies' memoir of his childhood The Co-Op's Got Bananas! was immediately hailed as a classic...

June 1940 and newly qualified teacher Phyllis Saunders is evacuated with her school to Dorset. Here ..

Cissy Farmer longs to escape her life in London's Docklands where times are hard and money is tight...

Arriving home from a routine day at work Anna Cottrell has no idea that her life is about to change ..

When Police Chief Macnaghten meets Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle in a Chelsea drawing room the ..

The Palace at Polwhipple a lovely art deco cinema nestles in front of azure Cornish seas. But it is ..

When Felix arrived at Huddersfield Railway Station as a kitten no one knew how important she would b..

DI Jack Brady is riding high after the successful outcome of his previous case but his world is abou..