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…
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…
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…
Five years after Cambridge poet Lydia Brooke’s death was ruled a suicide, doubts begin to surface when Victoria McClellan starts researching Lydia’s life for a biography. The deeper Vic digs, the less convincing the official story seems, and she turns…
Mourn Not Your Dead begins with the murder of Alastair Gilbert, a high-ranking police officer found brutally killed in his own kitchen in suburban Surrey. Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are sent in to investigate, and…
A Share in Death introduces Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and begins with a setup that has become a classic entry point into the series. Kincaid takes what is supposed to be a restful holiday at a Yorkshire time-share…