Cora Harrison

London, 1858. Young orphan Alfie is doing everything in his power to keep a roof over the heads of his rag-tag family. His brother Sammy, cousins Jack and Tom and faithful dog Mutsy all rely on him for survival.

When a brutal murder is committed nearby Alfie sees a chance to make some extra money. The police need someone streetwise and cunning who can access the slums of St Giles, and Alfie is just who they are looking for.

But when Alfie installs Sammy as a servant in the Monmouth Street house everything starts to go wrong. And a sinister world of double-dealing and danger is revealed…

Are Alfie and his gang now at risk? Can they unmask the killer before he realises they are on his trail? Or will the Monmouth Street Strangler strike again...?

Book 1 in the Victorian London Mysteries.

When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognise the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her. Led on by fragments of a journal discovered by Isabella's friend Sesina, the two men track the murdered girl's journeys from Greenwich to Snow Hill, from Smithfield Market to St Bartholomews, and put their wits to work on uncovering her past.

But what does Sesina know that she's choosing not to tell them?

Book 1 in the Gaslight Mystery series.

When a body washes up at her convent chapel dressed in evening finery, Reverend Mother Aquinas immediately suspects foul play. The overstretched police force may be ready to dismiss the case as accidental drowning, but strangulation marks on the girl's throat tell a grimmer story. Mother Aquinas wants justice for the girl - and won't let a murderer slip away unpunished under the cover of war.