Historical mysteries

1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole tr...

Edinburgh, 1889. The murder of a nurse at the lunatic asylum awakens Inspectors Ian Frey and 'Nine-Nails' McGray on New Year's Day. Before the attack, the murderer was overheard talking to fellow patient Amy McGray, sister of 'Nine-Nails'. But Amy has been mute for five years. So why did she brea...

A mysterious woman pleads for the help of Inspectors Frey and 'Nine-Nails' McGray. Her son, illegitimate scion of the Koloman family, has received an anonymous death threat - right after learning he is to inherit the best part of a vast wine-producing estate. In exchange for their protection, she...

A one-off collection of twelve Shakespearean-themed murder mysteries set in Elizabethan London, featuring Master Hardy Drew, Constable of the Bankside Watch, from the acclaimed author of the 7th century Irish Sister Fidelma mysteries.

1889. The Scottish Play is coming home, but before the darling couple of London theatre, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, take their acclaimed Macbeth north of the border, terror treads the boards on closing night in the capital. A supposed banshee leaves a message written in blood, foretelling some...

A dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open and an injured stranger appears - in his arms is the drowned corpse of a little child. Hours later the dead girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to lif...

Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room - and no way in or out - the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard se...