A murder mystery featuring a team of police investigators on the trail of an arsonist and killer in a small village in the English countryside.A body is discovered inside of the smoldering ruins of Key House. The crumbling Cotswold manor has long been empty, but rumor has it that the owner, Gervase Crown, was seen lurking around just before the fire.Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter pin Gervase as a prime suspect, but was he the murderer...

From "an accomplished veteran" of crime fiction, a Victorian murder mystery featuring a female sleuth and her detective husband ( Kirkus Reviews).When Mr. Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbor, Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard, is immediately summoned.Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr. Jonathan Tapley, QC, hears of the news, and the truth about his cousin's tragic past slowly begins ...

In this traditional mystery set in a small English village, detectives from two popular series team up to solve a two decades old missing persons case. Mitchell and Markby come out of retirement to crack a cold case . . .As young children, Josh Browning and his sister, Dilys, stumbled across a dead body while playing on the outskirts of their Cotswold village. Terrified by what they'd seen, neither of them told a soul. Now, twenty years later, Josh finds the dead wo...

First in "a quirky and intriguing crime series in which the eclectic cast often comes close to stealing the show from the plotline" ( The Gazette).When the body of a young woman is discovered in the cowshed of Cricket Farm, the tranquility of the British countryside is shattered. Inspector Jess Campbell is on the case, but with few leads, a grumbling partner, and the new superintendent Ian Carter piling on the pressure, she's beginning to wonder why she ch...

Campbell and Carter are back in their toughest case yet in the seventh Cotswold village crime novel following An Unfinished Murder.Two years ago, Miff Ferguson chose to opt out of the rat race. Since then he's been living rough and happily so. Until now. For as the first signs of winter approach, everything in his life is uprooted.While looking for shelter, Miff stumbles across the corpse of a young woman in a dilapidated warehouse. Quickly realizi...

In Victorian England, a Scotland Yard inspector and his wife investigate a condemned man's claim about a seventeen-year-old murder.A hanged man would say anything to save his life. But what if his testimony is true?When Inspector Ben Ross is called to Newgate Prison by a man condemned to die by the hangman's noose he isn't expecting to give any credence to the man's testimony. But the account of a murder he witnessed over seventeen years ago is so utterly b...

Ben and Lizzie Ross return in "a well-plotted and compelling mystery with lively characters and a strong invocation of fog-bound Victorian England" ( Promoting Crime Fiction).It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body of a young woman is found in a dustbin at the back of a Piccadilly restaurant.Ben must establish who the victim is before he ca...

"This is a perfect read for those who crave Victorian mysteries in the tradition of Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt novels." — Library JournalLizzie Martin, lady's companion, has been sent from London to the New Forest to comfort a new mother whose baby has tragically died. A sad enough task, but things take an even darker turn when a rat-catcher is found murdered, and the young woman is discovered beside the body, crying and covered in blood. Not knowing where e...

"Fans of Granger's earlier Mitchell and Markby series will not be disappointed with the crimes put before Campbell and Carter." — Oxford MailWhen old Monty Bickerstaffe discovers a dead body in his drawing room, it's up to Inspector Jess Campbell to get to the bottom of the mystery.Monty is a recluse, holed up in his crumbling manor house being generally unpleasant to everyone, even those relatives he actually likes. When his family and locals clai...

From "an accomplished veteran" of crime fiction, a Victorian murder mystery featuring a female sleuth and her detective husband ( Kirkus Reviews).On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed, middle-aged woman can be found. Even Jeb Fisher, the local rag-and-b...

In a sleepy Cotswold village, heavy rains reveal the body of a barmaid and troubling mystery for a local police inspector.As Christmas approaches in the sleepy English village of Weston Saint Ambrose, the rains bring the wettest winter on record and the farmer's fields are submerged. The water uncovers all manner of things, however, including a dead body, dredged up from its watery grave.Reclusive writer Neil Stewart is shocked to find the victim snagged on...

A team of police detectives investigate the murder of man with a complicated family history in the English countryside.When the body of a man killed by a point blank shot to the head is found in Crooked Man Woods, it appears to be a suicide. But when Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter begin to investigate, it soon becomes clear that not all is as it seems.The victim, Carl Finch, had been causing quite a stir in the small-town community. Wi...