Blood On The Line
When a desperate criminal escapes from a train, two policemen are left dead on the railway line. It is a case that Inspector Colbeck is eager to take on because it gives him the chance to avenge the murder of a dear friend years earlier.
But his quarry is elusive and, when cornered, is prepared to kill again. Just when Colbeck and Leeming are closing in on him, the villain boards a ship and sails for America with his female accomplice.
But they reckon without the Railway Detective's tenacity.
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The Bespoke Murder
This first title in an exciting new series features Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy, Scotland Yard detectives investigating crime on the home front during the Great War.
When the Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in May, 1915, there is an upsurge of violence in British cities. Shops and businesses owned by German immigrants are attacked and looted. An exclusive tailor's shop in the West End is burned down, landing Marmion and Keedy with a case that involves murder and rape as well as arson.
The more they delve into the case, the more complicated it becomes. They have to cross the Channel to a war zone in order to interview two suspects then penetrate a ruthless secret society with sinister objectives. Crucial help comes from a woman who survived the Lusitania disaster and the detectives have to move at top speed to prevent another major crime.
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A Very Murdering Battle
1709. Europe is in the grip of the coldest winter for a century. Mutiny and desertions rattle the French army. Louis XIV searches for peace on almost any terms.
Captain Daniel Rawson is involved in the talks as an interpreter. Like the Duke of Marlborough, he is frustrated when the Whig government makes excessive demands and the peace talks collapse.
War resumes and the Allied army besieges Tournai in June. Daniel plays a key role in the fall of the stronghold. Meanwhile, back in Amsterdam, the tapestry of the battle of Ramillies woven by Emanuel Janssen is stolen. Marlborough is horrified at the news as the tapestry was to have hung in Blenheim Palace. Daniel is sent off to find the stolen tapestry. He has to undergo many dangers before he finally recovers it, only to discover that - in handing over a version of one battle - he is plunged straight into another, the battle of Malplaquet. This is the bloodiest and most hard-fought of all the encounters during the War of the Spanish Succession and it is especially perilous for Daniel.
Railway To The Grave
In his seventh outing, Inspector Robert Colbeck faces his most daunting case yet. A retired colonel, whose wife has gone missing, commits suicide under the wheels of a train. Common opinion is that he murdered his wife and sought to escape justice.
Superintendent Tallis, who knew the man well from his days in the army, refuses to believe that his old friend was a killer. He travels to Yorkshire with Colbeck to find out what really happened to the missing wife and why the bereaved husband took his own life.
The detectives meet with great hostility, not least from the local vicar who refuses to have the body of a suicide victim buried in consecrated ground. When the corpse of the missing wife is found, the investigation takes a different turn altogether and the Railway Detective has to wade through a mass of conflicting evidence.
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Under Siege
The fourth Captain Daniel Rawson adventure finds him involved in the siege of Lille, fittingly described as the Pearl Among Fortresses. His assignment is to get inside the town to secure the plans of its complex fortifications. While he eventually succeeds in doing this, he loses his female accomplice in the process and has to get back into Lille once more to rescue her from gaol.
Escaping from the town when the siege guns start to boom presents another problem for him. Dogged by the machinations of politicians back in England, the Duke of Marlborough is also under siege and his health is badly affected.
Daniel's beloved, Amalia Janssen, faces a siege of a different kind. She travels to England with her father to visit Blenheim Palace where Janssen's tapestry of the battle of Ramillies will hang. They are the guests of a neighbouring peer but their attentive host harbours sinister desires. Amalia unwittingly inspires such lust in him that he even hires an assassin to cross the Channel in order to kill Daniel Rawson.
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