A barrister is found dead in a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, under circumstances compromising enough to make the case immediately messy for the detectives assigned to it. Gemma James teams up with Melody Talbot to investigate, and what first…
Rebecca Meredith goes missing after rowing alone on the Thames near Henley, and the search soon turns grim when her body is found in the river. She is not just an accomplished sculler with Olympic ambitions, but also a senior…
Sandra Gilles vanishes after leaving her three-year-old daughter at Columbia Road Flower Market, and for a time the disappearance can be read in more than one way. Maybe she fled her marriage. Maybe she meant to come back. Maybe something…
A plea from Gemma James’s neighbor Erika Rosenthal turns an ordinary London spring into something far more troubling. Erika, who fled Nazi Germany years earlier, has lived with a carefully guarded past, but now a valuable brooch stolen during that…
Christmas in Cheshire is supposed to be a family visit for Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, and the children, but the holiday turns darker when a mummified infant’s body is discovered hidden inside the wall of an old dairy under renovation.…
A fire in an abandoned Southwark warehouse exposes a woman’s charred body, immediately turning what might have been an arson investigation into something far more sinister. At the same time, staff at Guy’s Hospital are alarmed by the disappearance of…
Gemma James agrees to a trip to the Scottish Highlands with her friend Hazel expecting a change of scene, but the holiday turns uneasy almost at once. Hazel has been keeping a dangerous secret, and once they arrive at a…
On a winter night in Notting Hill, Dawn Arrowood returns home from a doctor’s appointment carrying news that leaves her frightened rather than relieved: she is pregnant, and she has reason to believe her powerful older husband will not welcome…
Duncan Kincaid heads to Glastonbury after his cousin Jack Montfort asks for help with a deeply unusual problem. Jack, an architect restoring an old chapel, has begun behaving in ways that suggest something far stranger than ordinary stress, including producing…
A young woman’s body is discovered in the grass of Mudchute Park in London’s East End, posed with a strange care that immediately suggests the crime is not a simple street attack gone wrong. The victim is identified as Annabelle…