Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

Serpent's Point in South Devon is the focus of local legends. The large house on the headland is shr..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

Prudence Bulstrode has fond memories of St Marianne's School for Girls the beautiful Cornish school ..

Preparing a midwinter's feast for all hundred residents of the little Yorkshire village of Scrafton ..

Last night Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin..

Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery cla..

One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

At a costume party with the dubious theme of 'famous murderers and their victims' the know-it-all am..

An honest policeman Sergeant Wigan escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and..

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine with scores of treatises reviews..

More than 50 years ago Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caugh..

February 1941. The world is at war and Joyce Cooper is doing her bit for the war effort. But as the ..