Robert Barnard

Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying an evening at a cosy Yorkshire pub when an old woman shows him an original, unpublished Brontë manuscript. Trethowan agrees to engage in a little literary detective work, but he doesn’t realise that the manuscript is motive for theft, torture – and murder.

Social infighting in the village of Twythching leads to poison pen letters and a murder, just when the local radio station is doing a documentary on the town. Time for Inspector George Parrish to investigate.

A gritty modern tale of the homeless young in Leeds. An attempted murder causes problems for DC Charlie Peace.

Sarah is finding life as a governess in a small, 1930s' English village quite enchanting, until the family she works for becomes the victim of a hate campaign. At first it was a dead dog, but then a human skeleton, and finally a corpse, are found on the lawn.