Allison & Busby
Death at the Clos du Lac
Picardie, 1964. At the exclusive – and reclusive – Clos du Lac sanatorium, a grisly discovery is made in the…
Fatal Inheritance
London, 1900. Detective Vanessa Weatherburn has a new and baffling case. The young violinist, Sebastian Cavendish, has committed suicide, leaving…
Murders Most Foul
In 1861, Detective Constable Faro has to solve the mystery of a murdered woman whose body has been found abandoned…
Peril on the Royal Train
Scotland, 1858. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are back on their tenth case. A goods train has been deliberately derailed…
Starshine
As a fan of the Simon Fonthill series also by Wilcox, I was very anxious to read this novel, which…
The Stationmaster’s Farewell
If you like a Victorian detective whodunit set in a railway background, largely around Exeter (UK) St David’s GWR train…
City of Spades
City of Spades is one of the publisher’s reissues in their Classics of the 20th Century series and called by…
Instrument of Slaughter
In the bleak winter of 1916, war takes its increasing toll of young servicemen in France. For some Londoners, the…
Three Houses
This is a richly nostalgic and evocative account of the writer’s childhood with her younger brother (who also went on…
A Sea of Troubles
It is 1794, and Britannia is doing its best to rule the waves to the detriment of Revolutionary France. John…
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