Alys Clare creëert boeiende historische mysteries die zich afspelen op het sfeervolle Engelse platteland dat ze van binnen en van buiten kent. Haar schrijven wordt gevoed door een diepe waardering voor geschiedenis en archeologie, waarbij ze zowel de setting als de geest van de tijdperken die ze portretteert, nauwgezet onderzoekt. Clare blinkt uit in het weven van ingewikkelde verhalen die lezers aantrekken tot de boeiende charme van het verleden.
1604.Gabriel Taverner is surprised to receive an urgent summons from his old naval captain, who believes his ship is haunted by an evil spirit. Dismissive of the crew's talk of blue-skinned ghosts, Gabriel is convinced there must be a rational explanation behind the mass hallucinations. But matters take a disturbing turn when a body is discovered...
July, 1100. After seven years away, Lassair is finally going home. Before she can reunite with her loved ones, however, she has a promise to keep. Old flame - and king's spy - Rollo left her a chest before he died, and it's time to collect it. But to her dismay, Lassair's soon caught up in a web of intrigue and danger she may never escape from .
October, 1093. At her mentor's urgent request, Lassair is accompanying Gurdyman across the sea to Spain. But why is he insistent on embarking on this difficult and dangerous journey just as winter approaches? And why does he seem so afraid? As the pair reach the remote mountainous regions of northern Spain, Lassair will be tested as never before.
Introducing Dr Gabriel Taverner in the first of a gripping series of British mysteries set in early 17th century Devon
October, 1604. When a member of Shakespeare's theatre troupe collapses in Plymouth, after performing a violent supernatural play to a packed audience, physician-sleuth Gabriel Taverner finds himself caught in a waking nightmare. For the dying man has either brought plague with him from London - or something even worse .
London, August 1881. Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have cause to celebrate: business is thriving. Lily privately wishes for a case that doesn't involve the tangled love affairs of the upper classes - but soon regrets it when two puzzling, seemingly impossible cases arrive: a missing Jewish child, and a horrible murder ...
A man from London has taken over the tavern on the main London to Hastings highway to the south of Tonbridge. He is not what he appears, and his arrival ushers in a sequence of apparently unrelated but disturbing events, whose escalating violence culminates in murder.
When the body of a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey is found with her throat cut, Josse d'Acquin, the king's knight, arrives from France to investigate. With the help of the worldly Abbess Helewise, Josse discovers lust, greed, and anger flowing closer to the Abbey, and in the haunted Weald of Kent, whose woods hide strange secrets. HC> St. Martin's Press.
Accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau claiming his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her. Lily Raynor is initially sceptical, but after attending a séance she realizes Albertina is in terrible danger... but how do you investigate threats from beyond the grave?
Girls are going missing from Shardlowes School, and private detective Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is hired to investigate. Disguised as a nurse, she joins the staff, while her employee, Felix Wilbraham, remains behind. Lily thinks she's safe - but Felix can't shake off his fear that she's in grave danger .