Burnip, Richard

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. When DCI Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye.

Summer 1311, and Sir Hugh Corbett has taken up a life of danger again. After his recent unveiling of a devious assassin, Sir Hugh Corbett has returned to service as the Keeper of the Secret Seal, begrudgingly admitting that his appetite for adventure has once again been whetted. Summoned to meet ...

The new student teacher has turned his mind to some head-spinningly new techniques to discipline the pupils. But when thing start to spiral out of control, it's not long before the help of Jonathan and the Fang Gang is enlisted.

Spring, 1312. At Malmaison Manor, Lord Simon is concealing a dark secret - one he arrogantly assumes will never catch up with him. But someone knows about the crime he committed and they've found a way to make him pay. And he's not alone. When he is found mysteriously slain, other deaths soon fol...

Wynne tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger. His canvases would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. His handiwork is suspected in at least four Vermeers in major galleries.

The year is 1855. The Crimean war is raging. The British government has fallen. The Empire itself hangs in the balance. Into this crisis comes Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter Emily, and their Scotland Yard comp...

For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the 14 years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police...

In her second novel Maria McCann returns to 17th century England, where life is struggling to return to normal after the horrific tumult of the Civil War.