Things have changed a little with my newest release: The Legacy of Foulstone Manor. I’ve stepped away from Dickens for a while, though there’s still plenty of mystery, intrigue and investigation. But this time, our hero is Joan Goss – though that’s not the name she was given by birth by the mother she never knew.
The Jaggard Case is out today!
Book 10 of my Charles Dickens Investigations series is now available on Kindle and in paperback. Murder, forgery, coining, kidnapping, prostitution, a brutal gang of boys, fire, water, wooden dolls, elephants, the slums of Clerkenwell and Belle Isle, the workhouse, the sinister marshlands, lime kilns and Limehouse – these are the ingredients of the tenth […]
Mr Dickens’s Guide for Lovers
Mr Dickens’s Guide for Lovers Warnings, Wooings, and Willingness ‘There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.’ Sometimes it’s better just to stop before you start. But if you must, then heed the advice of Mr Jellaby to his daughter in Bleak House: ‘Unless you mean with all your heart […]
An A-Z of Murder
Read an extract of my free e-book below, then download the full dastardly dictionary here. Mr Dickens’s Dreadful Dictionary This is Mr Dickens’s compendium of murder –a dictionary of atrocious acts, dreadful deeds, and hideous horrors. Dickens asks the question: ‘Is it in the interest of any man to steal, to gamble, to waste his […]