by Craig Jamieson Normandy 1098. Alain Archard is about to attend his sister's wedding when he learns that both she and his father have been brutally murdered by Count Robert de Bellême. As the son of a farmer, how do you get justice against the most powerful lord in the [...]
by Colin Bostock-Smith When the bones of a young woman are dug up in a farmhouse garden, P.C. Derek Martin discovers a link between her death and pre-War English fascism. He is, however, distracted not just by the chance of a promotion to CID, which would uproot him and his [...]
by Stephen Timmins Seventeen-year-old Kit Dobson is slight, combative and a brilliant mechanic who is fascinated by the extraordinary new world of powered flight. In 1917, Aila Smythe of Stanwood House whose maid Maisie is Kit's cousin, introduces her to the famous Sopwith Aviation Company. Kit overcomes the contempt [...]
by Colin Bostock-Smith It’s the New Year and 1953 brings a whole new set of crimes to the Devon village of North Tawe for PC Derek Martin to solve. A gang of beatniks led by a strikingly attractive young woman who demands to be known as Aphrodite Wonder Girl, takes [...]
by Sion Hughes A few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, the peace of the rural village of Penmynydd in Anglesey is shattered by the disappearance of a local woman. A finger of suspicion turns to one of the local men but D.I. John believes that [...]
by Colin Bostock-Smith It’s August 1952 and in the West Devon village of North Tawe, local PC, Derek Martin, worries about strange happenings. ‘Niggles’, he calls these worries, although the last niggle he had, led to a showdown with a shotgun wielding drug addict and now, ever worsening nightmares. It [...]
by Paul Durston PC Charlie Quinlan. Ace thief taker. Childhood abuse victim.Now her abusers are being killed.In her childhood, Charlie’s mind created alternate identities (‘alters’), to shield her from the abuse. But is it those alters, who are now killing the abusers? The police can only see one person – [...]
by Jacqueline Harrett A woman’s decomposing body. A Church of ‘Forgotten Souls’. A dubious priest. DI Mandy Wilde has a new case on her hands. Was the death natural? Can she solve the mystery under the critical gaze of her ex-fiancé, DCI Lucas Manning? And who hated Barbara Vixen enough [...]
by Colin Bostock-Smith It’s 1952 and newly married PC Derek Martin despairs of ever finding a crime to solve in the sleepy Devon village to which he’s just been appointed. Reporting bicyclists for not having their lights on is hardly what he signed up for. His first big case shatters [...]
by Jennifer Lee Thomson Everybody expects Douglas John MacDonald to be convicted for the rape and murder of schoolgirl Kylie Donovan. When he walks free there’s a public outcry. But someone is not content simply to leave it that way. MacDonald is found murdered – his pinkie removed just like [...]
