June 1890. Leeds is close to breaking point. The gas workers are on strike. Supplies are dangerously low. Factories and businesses are closing; the lamps are going unlit at night. Detective Inspector Tom Harper has more urgent matters on his mind. The beat constable claims eight-...
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The second intriguing historical mystery to feature Detective Inspector Tom Harper. Leeds, Christmas Eve, 1890. A young man has been found stabbed to death in the city's poverty-stricken Jewish district, his body arranged in the shape of a cross, two bronze pennies covering his e...
When the death of a suffragette at a railway station comes on the heels of the discovery of a dead baby boy in the post office in 1891 Leeds, Detective Inspector Tom Harper tries to find a connection between the two.
The first in a brand-new WWII historical thriller series introduces Sergeant Cathy Marsden -- a female police officer working for the Special Investigation Branch -- who risks her life to protect the city of Leeds from an escaped German spy! Leeds, 1941. As the war rages across E...
Leeds, 1920. Chief Constable Tom Harper of Leeds City Police has just six weeks left in the role before his well-earned retirement. But even though his distinguished forty-year career is ending, the crime and mayhem on the city's streets continues. Council leader Alderman Thompso...
"Leeds. April, 1824. Wealthy engineer Joseph Clark employs thief-taker Simon Westow to find the men who stole the buried corpse of Catherine Jordan, his employee's daughter. Simon is stunned and horrified to realize there's a gang of body snatchers in Leeds. He needs to discover ...
When the death of a suffragette at a railway station comes on the heels of the discovery of a dead baby boy in the post office in 1891 Leeds, Detective Inspector Tom Harper tries to find a connection between the two.
June 1890. Leeds is close to breaking point. The gas workers are on strike. Supplies are dangerously low. Factories and businesses are closing; the lamps are going unlit at night. Detective Inspector Tom Harper has more urgent matters on his mind. The beat constable claims eight-...
Investigating the deaths of a young woman and a baby whose bodies were found in a deliberately set fire, Richard Nottingham conducts a search through the streets of Leeds before discovering a link to a wealthy wool merchant.
Leeds, 1893. DI Tom Harper is witnessing the demonstration of a devastating new naval weapon, the torpedo, at Roundhay Park. The explosion brings up a body in the lake, a rope lashed tightly around its waist. At the same time, a woman's severed leg floats to the surface of the Ri...
A young man arrives in Leeds searching for his missing sister - and ends up dead, his throat slit. Then the girl the young man came seeking is dragged from the river, drowned. Constable Richard Nottingham finds himself investigating two killings where nothing is as it seems.
"Leeds, 1820. Thief-taker Simon Westow knows all about lost property. A boy from the workhouse, he now has a comfortable business finding and returning his clients' stolen possessions. But when John Milner, a successful Leeds businessman, seeks out Simon's services to find his ki...