When Jack Hargreaves takes a job with Fingers Molloy, it doesn’t quite go to plan. Fingers turns out to be a time-travelling burglar, with a host of ingenious devices supplied by the mysterious Mr Smith. And the things they’re stealing are, frankly, odd. But Jack is in no position to pick and choose — for […]

A thirsty evil had been unleashed. Novelist Peter Chard enjoyed living in the beautiful country village of Bishop’s Thatcham. But he was beginning to regard the inhabitants of the village as a decidedly queer lot: full of envy, hatred and malice, and without charity. He visualised the village as a gigantic cauldron, bubbling and seething […]

Meet Julia Bird: recently single, reluctantly retired, and… an amateur sleuth? Julia Bird has left London for a fresh start in a picturesque Cotswolds village, and the rustic charm and cosy fireplaces of her little cottage are everything she’d hoped for. But when she tears down the old garden shed to make way for a […]

Shee wants a home. Shee McQueen grew up skip-tracing and hunting military criminals with her father, Mick, until someone put a bounty on her head, forcing her underground. Resurfacing years later, she returns to her family’s hotel in Jupiter Beach, FL, to find Mick in a coma, shot by an unknown sniper. Shee wants answers. […]