Severn House
The Paths of the Air
Sir Josse d’Acquin is sitting by his fireside wondering where his life is going when a mysterious stranger comes to…
The Sun’s Bride
The Eastern Mediterranean, 246 BC. The Rhodian warship Atalanta and her naked crew (that got your attention) come across and…
Dark North
Were there Africans in the Roman Army? The Historia Augusta describes an Ethiopian soldier presenting Emperor Septimius Severus with…
Blind Eye
Is this the 14th tale about Marilyn Todd’s wonderfully bitchy and feisty detective Claudia? No, this is the first tale…
Secret Sins
In war-torn 1940s Bristol, England, Mary Anne’s pawnshop home is burnt down while her son and daughter are in the…
Out Of Shadows
This is the second novel in the Meryen series following Keeping Echoes. Intrigue, lust and passion run through this story…
The Muscovy Chain
Can the modern genre of the detective story be transposed to cultural settings where there is no police force, no…
Long Shadows
Alice Chase, once a Londoner and now, in 1939, the wife of Walter, a saw mill worker in Somerset, contends…
Rogue Officer
This is the fifth book in the ‘Fancy Jack’ Crossman series, following the adventures of a British soldier through the…
The Last Goodbye
This novel is the sequel to A Time to Remember. It is a love story set during the Second World…
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