No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family, but then Sir Basil Moidore's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her ...

Another Perry mystery that highlights the frustrating status of women in Victorian England. The story hinges on society's low opinion of nurses and of bot...

In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a vi...

Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but ...

Hester Monk's voluntary work in Coldbath Square is increasingly demanding. Every night she tends to a stream of women of the streets who have been injured...

A superintendent in the Thames River Police, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he and his men notice a young couple standing at t...

1864 and, once again, Inspector William Monk, now of the Thames River Police, must face a dangerous foe. After a game of cat and mouse, Monk has finally c...

The head of the Bow Street police station, Drummond, came to see his old friend, Lord Byham. He took his best inspector, Thomas Pitt, with him - because the ...

London Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt was approached by childhood friend Matthew Desmond with a request for help. His father, Sir Arthur, recently died su...

'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN. Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kin...

Constantinople, late 13th century. To free the unjustly imprisoned brother Justinian, the young and brave Anna Lascaris arrives in the Byzantine capital in t...

Never has the shadow of a scandal fallen on the aristocratic Muidor family. And almost every day, Londoners watched with envy as luxurious carriages with nob...