Laura Wilson

London in the early 1950s; John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter. It proves to be a straightforward case for DI Ted Stratton of West End Central, and Davies is convicted and hanged. But after a series of gruesome discoveries, Stratton begins to suspect there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice...

After five years of conflict, London's exhausted inhabitants are living in a world of dereliction. War-weary DI Ted Stratton is no exception. But called on to investigate when a doctor is found dead in Fitzrovia's Middlesex Hospital, Stratton soon realizes that someone involved is not who they appear to be.

Sophie suspects her husband is seeing another woman. She devises a simple plan to confront her but it goes violently wrong. Sophie must go to extreme lengths to keep her life and her family together - while never letting on her devastating secret…

1958: Notting Hill is DI Stratton's new manor and a powder keg of racial tension. A race riot breaks out - the worst Britain has ever seen. Stratton must tread a path through the violence and prejudice to find a killer before Notting Hill explodes.

London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of CID is not convinced. As he starts asking questions, he soon uncovers a criminal network and a secretive pro-fascist organisation.

London, November, 1956. DI Ted Stratton is investigating the murder of Jeremy Lloyd, a young man with a taste for esoteric religion. Stratton's enquiries lead him to Suffolk, where the mysterious Mr Roth has founded a Foundation for Spiritual Understanding.

Janice Keaton is living a quiet, easy life when a longed-for reunion with the daughter she gave up for adoption years earlier drags her into a lethal confrontation with her past. As she struggles to come to terms with a series of shocks, Janice realises that her recollections of the past hold a sinister secret - one with deadly consequences...