Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children...

The disappearance from school of two apparently unconnected teenagers worries DC Charlie Peace, u...

A Scandal In Belgravia is a story of murder; it is also a penetrating analysis of a decaying soci...

Susannah Sneddon had never received a great deal of fame or fortune from her novel-writing in the...

Norway in cherry blossom time seemed exactly the right place to hold a conference of the World As...

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

Chetton Hall was one of the glories of Jacobean domestic architecture, and the Spenders had lived...

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

Lill Hodsden was a monster. She rode roughshod over her daughter, wiped her feet on her husband, ...

Police superintendent Percy Trethowan found London's Soho as colourful and full of life as every-...

Opera singers are often described as being larger than life, and certainly this is true of Gaylen...

Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fift...

Old church meets new with a vengeance when a monk is brutally murdered at St. Botolph's.Murder wa...

Hexton-upon-Weir was ruled by its women: they set the tone, they made the decisions, they called ...

Upstairs, in the room looking out to sea, the old man dictates wills, leaving things he no longer...

First published in 1979, Unruly Son received an Edgar Award nomination for 'Best Novel' of the ye...

Radio Broadwich decides to do a documentary on the small village of Twytching for international b...

There were two Mrs Machins, relicts of the talented working-class writer Walter Machin, who was j...

Superintendent Perry Trethowan was used to cases that involved people in high places, and in this...

The MP for Bootham East was something of a fish out of water - a Tory with a conscience. When he ...

Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when h...

It was midday on December 21st in the city of Tromsø when the boy was last seen - a tall, blond b...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference o...

The Ketterick Festival revolves around the Saracen's Head, a Jacobean inn with its inn-yard and b...

The Burleigh school was dying. It would be called a mercy killing were it not for the little band...

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

A classic murder mystery from author Robert Barnard.

Robert Barnard is a well-established crime writer. He has won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as...

In the late winter of 1979, Leeds housewife Ellen Heenan dies in childbirth - abandoning a guilt-...

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many families sent their children to the compar...

A man's home is his castle, but for Percy Spender that motto has been taken just a bit too litera...

What an honor, to become a trustee of one of England’s distinguished stately homes. Yorkshire cop...

This detailed and engaging study, newly translated into English, offers an exciting account of th...

What better victim in a Robert Barnard novel than the literary poseur? And what better place to f...

A mysterious envelope arrives on Eve McNabb's doorstep soon after she has buried her mother, a wo...

It was midday on December 21 in the Norwegian city of Tromsø when the boy was last seen - a tall,...

From Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger–winning crime writer . . . Kit ...

One of the most critically acclaimed of all contemporary crime writers and a Diamond Dagger Award...