A Bitter Feast
A weekend in the Cotswolds sounds like a rare chance to slow down, especially when Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James, and their family are guests of Melody Talbot at her parents’ home. That calm breaks violently when Duncan is involved in…
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Garden of Lamentations
A young woman in a white dress is found dead in one of Notting Hill’s private gardens, posed so serenely that, at first glance, she appears merely asleep. The victim is Reagan Keating, a nanny moving through the polished world…
To Dwell in Darkness
A demonstration at St. Pancras turns catastrophic when a young man carrying what was meant to be a smoke bomb instead triggers an explosion that kills him and sends panic through the station. Duncan Kincaid, working with a newly assigned…
The Sound of Broken Glass
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…
No Mark Upon Her
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…
Necessary as Blood
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…
Where Memories Lie
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…
Water Like a Stone
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.…
In a Dark House
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…
Now May You Weep
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…