Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world a ..

1787. Captain Edward Brazier is on a mission: recently paid off from his frigate and comfortably off..

Edward Brazier is enlisted by Prime Minister William Pitt to assist his investigation into smuggling..

1787. Captain Edward Brazier is wounded and in desperate need of medical attention but those from wh..

Derbyshire 1921. When an MP goes missing in a Derbyshire village Scotland Yard detective Albert Linc..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

In June 1837 the 18-year-old Victoria wakes up to find that she is Queen of the most powerful nation..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

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

“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...

The Second World War sparked the writing of hundreds of short stories by servicemen and women as wel..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pl..