Mr Logo is a familiar figure in the courts, frequently accused of indecent assault, but invariably acquitted due to lack of evidence. His latest acquittal isn't the only set-back in Helen West's...

Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award

Marianne Shearer is at the height of her career, a successful barrister, respected by her peers and revered by her clients. She has...

The crime of rape calls out for vengeance, but when the accused is a police officer the outcry and the penalty are worse. Prosecutor Helen West doesn’t even like the officer accused, the...

Crown Prosecutor Helen West, her less-than-clean garden flat and her relationship with senior Geoffrey Bailey are all in need of a little care and attention. Further up the no. 59 bus route but a...

For John Smith, a man without conscience, a soul incapable of redemption, the motive was simple. Someone had stolen the only person he had ever loved...his twin brother, Cannon. And Johnny would...

Written when he was still an aspiring composer, driven by the image of a woman with whom he had fallen passionately in love from afar, and breaking new ground in the drama of concert performance,...

Frances Fyfield and a team of musical experts look at the scores of one of Sir Hubert Parry's best known works: his anthem 'I Was Glad'. 'Dear Parry, The King wishes you to write something for the...

When rich, middle-aged widow Eileen Cartwright becomes obsessed with Michael Bernard, her handsome solicitor, she plots the murder of his pretty wife.

A Polish hospital porter is hired...

Richard Beaumont hoped to see the rarest species of crow on the white cliffs of Dover. Instead, he saw a young woman jump to her death, so that is the scene he painted.

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Elisabeth Kennedy, a disgraced ex–police officer, is haunted by her sister’s horrific murder and her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession. Then she herself is the...

Sarah Fortune is bored to death - but few know, and less would guess, how the beautiful and successful redheaded solicitor escapes the stultifying tedium of her career. Since the death of her...

Twenty years ago, Henry Evans met Francesca Chisholm whilst backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, Henry left it too late to change his travel plans and she left without...

This is a deceptively subtle and disturbing mystery of unrequited love, family betrayal and the secrets which bind together the most unlikely allies.

It was Isabel Calvert’s pious Christianity that drove her husband Theodore away and, when he left, it was the Church that replaced him in his daughters’ upbringing. By the time Isabel died, it...

Handel was commissioned by King George II to compose an orchestral work to accompany a lavish firework display to celebrate the end of Austrian War of Succession. It was the most spectacular...