John Cleal, Crime Review Link to complete review […] ‘The Body in the Boat is a fast-moving story involving smuggling, fraud, corruption, bank failure, drug trafficking, treason, espionage and murder all set in the misty, feverish, Romney Marshes – and it...
Tracey Warr, Historical Novel Society Link to complete review ‘This is the second outing for the 18th-century sleuths and every bit as rewarding as the first book in the series. At times the tongue-in-cheek Gothic is a little overblown, and some aspects of the...
John Cleal, Crime Review Link to complete review […] ‘The Body on the Doorstep is a clever and gripping atmospheric page turner, with engaging and believable characters, plenty of twists and turns, nicely observed historical detail and touches of gentle...
The Body in the Boat Across the still, dark English Channel come the smugglers. But tonight they carry an unusual cargo: a coffin. Several miles inland, a respected banker holds a birthday party for his wife. Within days, one of the guests is found shot dead. What...
The Body in the Ice Christmas Day, Kent, 1796 On the frozen fields of Romney Marsh stands New Hall; silent, lifeless, deserted. In its grounds lies an unexpected Christmas offering: a corpse, frozen into the ice of a horse pond. It falls to the Reverend Hardcastle,...
The Body on the Doorstep The year is 1796. It is midnight on Romney Marsh, in the darkness of a new moon. Smugglers’ boats bring their illicit cargoes of brandy and tobacco from France to land on the beaches of the Channel coast. Suddenly, shots ring out in the night....
