The isolated and rural farming county of Lincolnshire, England is a place you come from - not move to.Except for Penny May. She’s tired of the stress of her job in London, and it’s time for an early retirement. In an effort to reclaim the exuberance of youth that she once had, she gets a funky hair style, a classic motorcycle - and a dog with “issues”.Dog ownership is harder than she expected, but she won’t give up. To avoid postmen, people in hats, people ...

Who killed Viscount Beaconberg?Lady Beaconberg’s a prime suspect: the money-grabbing snob of a wife would do anything to get further up the social ladder, and ditching a lowly viscount would free her for marriage to a much more esteemed nobleman.Or perhaps the killer was the viscount’s business partner, Sir Arthur, who’s been arguing in public and in private, desperate to wrest control of the racing stables fully into his own hands.As Theodore Caxton, the Earl of Ca...

Adelia’s broken free of the restraints that Victorian society puts on a woman. By using her wit, unconventional intelligence and good humour, she’s risen to marry an earl who dotes on her; she’s raised and married off seven beautiful daughters; what more is there for her now?What, indeed. Adelia’s looking for a new adventure. She’s not ready for her twilight years of slumber just yet…Then her daughter’s friend is found brutally murdered in the grounds of Mondial Castle – in...

The urchins of Victorian London say that a ghost is murdering young women …Maybe it wouldn’t matter on the chaotic and dingy streets – but these victims are respectable ladies, and when the Chief Inspector asks questions, he’s transferred out of the way.Marianne Starr is asking questions, too. One of the victims was her friend. Asking the wrong questions puts her in the firing line and suddenly she’s on the run, hiding out in the very worst rookeries, and the only way to re...

There’s something foul in the air around Tavy Castle.The old Lady Buckshaw can’t say the word “trade” without feeling ill and the new Lady Buckshaw can’t say much at all - at least, not much that makes sense. She’s always been a sensitive soul, but have the oppressive swamps around her new home finally driven her into a very Gothic insanity?Madness and death seem to go hand in hand, and it’s not long before a corpse turns up in the ice house. Theodore, Lord Calaway is all s...

FIVE full-length standalone light historical mysteries in one volume! Join Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook and her eclectic household as she fights crime, unearths secrets, and fends off the advances of unsuitable men.These Victorian murder mysteries are set in Britain in the 1840s, and take a light, frothy look at the fun side of history. It’s not quite Dickens. Maybe Dickens at a party after a few too many brandies. They are rooted in accuracy, though (there are author’...

Who killed Sir Phileas Hinge?This novella (half the length of a regular book) is the perfect introduction to the upper-class world of Victorian England. Here, genteel dinner parties hide murderers; sparkling balls harbour dastardly villains; and every light society conversation hints at a darker scandal.The Earl of Calaway and his wife, Adelia, have raised and married off seven daughters. Now free of domestic duties, they are building an enterprise...

A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective: escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history.Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook has lost her husband, her home and she's about to lose her patience.She should have been enjoying a relaxing stay with Hugo Hawke at his country manor. But Hawke is a cad who is mostly interested in drinking, gambling and - well, all the other things you'd expect a moustachioed ...

London, 1890: a new woman in an old world, science in an age of wonder, and a thrilling new historical mystery.When scientific investigator Marianne Starr – rich in talent but poor in everything else – meets excitable trader George Bartholomew, she initially refuses to take his case. Her job is to publicly unmask fake mediums, not to unravel his strange story of fake fathers.But now, with George lying dead in squalor and a man in a blue top hat shadowing he...

Lord and Lady Lassiter are young, minted and living the high life in the Bohemian artistic circles of London. It’s Christmas, 1893, and the excitement of a new millennium is already gathering pace. New opportunities! New ways of living! An end to stuffiness and convention!But society and business are still controlled by the old guard. Where there is money, there is power. And where there is both, there must be corruption. Lord Lassiter chooses the wrong friends and he quickly finds...

The Victorian era is an age of excursions. And for every hopeful holidaymaker, there are dozens of businesses hoping to sell them the trip of their dreams.Four such men, eager to make money, come together to offer fossil-hunting expeditions along the south coast of England. But ambition and greed soon rip the venture apart and it ends in violent murder.Unfortunately, the victim is killed right under the noses of Lord and Lady Calaway. It ought to be a simple case; the polic...

London, 1890: scientific investigator Marianne Starr must discover the source of the unearthly screams that plague a gothic house at night. The suspects seem obvious though the reasons are a mystery. Nevertheless, she is quick and clever and is soon ready to expose the fraud, and pocket the money and fame.But then someone is killed, someone else flees, and suddenly her world is turned upside down. Her father is breaking out at night on a mission of his own, and her...