December 1940. With the Luftwaffe pounding the city nightly Londoners seek refuge in underground sta..

Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet when the bod..

When a heart attack forces Marcus fford Croft to retire from his chambers his daughter Miriam and so..

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in S..

Hugh d’Avranches Earl of Chester is enraged when his hawk is killed by an arrow in the Forest of D..

One of the Claridge's kitchen porters is found dead - strangled. He was a recent employee who claime..

It is the summer of 1934 when MI6 receives intelligence that two German scientists have made a break..

It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London branding roses on his victims. The police ha..

Paris 1750. A new maid arrives at the home of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever unworldly daugh..

1919. The guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gather..

The Brontë sisters' first poetry collection has just been published when Anne receives a letter fro..

London 1897. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National..

July 1794 and the streets of London are filled with rumours of revolution. Laurence Jago - clerk to ..

December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..

Armistice Day 1940. The Blitz Detective John Jago finds himself despatched to Pimlico to investigate..