Lancashire 1895. Abigail Dawson has lived in fear of her father for thirty years. But when after upr..

The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the murder of one of the monks. The Abbey becom..

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele attracting the cream of ..

York railway station December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlo..

May 1911. Daniel Pitt is summoned to a murder scene in the slums of London's East End. He identifies..

Bombay 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade Inspector Persis Wadia stands..

Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand new detective agency. Until Bald Berni..

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

Hugh d’Avranches Earl of Chester is enraged when his hawk is killed by an arrow in the Forest of D..

1866. On a dark brooding summer's evening Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compart..

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

December 1940. With the Luftwaffe pounding the city nightly Londoners seek refuge in underground sta..

Summer 1840. Edgar Allan Poe arrives in London to meet his friend C. Auguste Dupin in the hope that ..

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore and the British abdication crisis and rising Japanese threat s..

London 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden featuring Hanna..