Bombay 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective Persis Wad..

Paris 1933. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a local train in ..

Salonica Greece 1976. Hellenic Gendarme Major Mikhail Remis is a man in demand. A dark soul with a f..

Sunday morning and the body of Reverend Villiers has been found propped up on the vigil seat in the ..

It is late August 1940 and British Intelligence agent Hope Stapleford is desperate to join the Speci..

1933. An odd group gathers for an English country house weekend party: a sickly host a disgraced soc..

Berlin 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and star..

Cambridge UK 1947. Martin Friedrich a German philosopher is cycling through an intersection on his w..

Winter 1946. One cold dark night as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war l..

March 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with b..

May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands the craze for flying holds little int..

March 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun wi..

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite Peter Gaveston unleashes a horde of dem..

Yorkshire 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the p..

A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dism..