Sandra Gilles vanishes after leaving her three-year-old daughter at Columbia Road Flower Market, and for a time the disappearance can be read in more than one way. Maybe she fled her marriage. Maybe she meant to come back. Maybe something…
A plea from Gemma James’s neighbor Erika Rosenthal turns an ordinary London spring into something far more troubling. Erika, who fled Nazi Germany years earlier, has lived with a carefully guarded past, but now a valuable brooch stolen during that…
Christmas in Cheshire is supposed to be a family visit for Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, and the children, but the holiday turns darker when a mummified infant’s body is discovered hidden inside the wall of an old dairy under renovation.…
A fire in an abandoned Southwark warehouse exposes a woman’s charred body, immediately turning what might have been an arson investigation into something far more sinister. At the same time, staff at Guy’s Hospital are alarmed by the disappearance of…
Gemma James agrees to a trip to the Scottish Highlands with her friend Hazel expecting a change of scene, but the holiday turns uneasy almost at once. Hazel has been keeping a dangerous secret, and once they arrive at a…
On a winter night in Notting Hill, Dawn Arrowood returns home from a doctor’s appointment carrying news that leaves her frightened rather than relieved: she is pregnant, and she has reason to believe her powerful older husband will not welcome…
Duncan Kincaid heads to Glastonbury after his cousin Jack Montfort asks for help with a deeply unusual problem. Jack, an architect restoring an old chapel, has begun behaving in ways that suggest something far stranger than ordinary stress, including producing…
A young woman’s body is discovered in the grass of Mudchute Park in London’s East End, posed with a strange care that immediately suggests the crime is not a simple street attack gone wrong. The victim is identified as Annabelle…
Five years after Cambridge poet Lydia Brooke’s death was ruled a suicide, doubts begin to surface when Victoria McClellan starts researching Lydia’s life for a biography. The deeper Vic digs, the less convincing the official story seems, and she turns…
Mourn Not Your Dead begins with the murder of Alastair Gilbert, a high-ranking police officer found brutally killed in his own kitchen in suburban Surrey. Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are sent in to investigate, and…