Judy Franklin

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, and strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Investigating the violent death at Martingale manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English country life.  Book 1 of series.

In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? P D James and police historian T A Critchley draw on public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources to shed light on this infamous Wapping mystery.

In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? P D James and police historian T A Critchley draw on public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources to shed light on this infamous Wapping mystery.

Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now he's a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang. Luckily he makes the acquaintance of one Albert Campion during his voyage to England. The amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile, where it's a race against time to keep the Simister posse at bay - and to pinpoint the identity of the mastermind behind their criminal empire...

Tom Ripley is a man who is fastidious about everything except murder, but he is disturbed that the Pritchards, a new American couple in the village, seem to be well informed about his past, and flaunt the knowledge. He is determined that these intruders will muddy still waters at their peril..