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One winter night, unpopular Jerry Harrison receives a late visitor at his isolated Cotswold cottage and is stabbed to death. With few clues and villagers who never quite accepted the outsider, Jess Campbell and Ian Carter struggle to crack the case before a second brutal attack shatters the community.

Inspector Ben Ross visits Jacob Jacobus, a slippery Limehouse antiquarian and police informer, hoping for advance warning of planned burglaries. Instead he learns that a priceless emerald necklace has already been stolen and, by evening, Jacobus himself is found with his throat cut, tying theft and murder together.

In spring 1871, Lizzie Ross travels to the New Forest with her formidable Aunt Parry for a seaside rest. A dinner invitation to Sir Henry Meager's grand house ends in shock when he is found shot dead in his bed, drawing Lizzie and Ben into a circle of guests who all had reasons to wish him gone.

In March 1870, London lies under fog and ice when a young woman's body is discovered in a dustbin behind a Piccadilly restaurant. Ben Ross must learn who she was and how she died, while Lizzie and their maid Bessie investigate a girl seemingly held prisoner in a respectable house far from the city.

After two years living rough by choice, Miff Ferguson looks for shelter in an empty warehouse and instead finds a young woman's corpse, along with someone watching him. Driven into hiding with relatives in Weston Saint Ambrose, he cannot shake the danger, and Campbell and Carter must protect him while tracking a relentless killer.

As children, Josh and Dilys Browning found a woman's body in woods near their Cotswold village and were too frightened to tell anyone. Twenty years later, a charm bracelet among Dilys's things forces Josh to confess to retired superintendent Alan Markby, reopening a missing person case that never went away.

Cut out of his stepfather's will and drowning in debt, Carl Finch begs his stepsister Hattie for money. She agrees to meet him secretly in Crooked Man Wood, only to find his body there instead. Jess Campbell and Ian Carter soon discover that the Finch family tree hides motives strong enough to kill.

A dock worker in Deptford stumbles over the corpse of a well dressed middle aged woman in a yard, and no one claims to have seen anything. As Ben Ross investigates, Lizzie tries to help a family friend drowning in gambling debts, only to find their troubles are bound up with the dead woman's last hours.

Weeks of heavy rain flood the fields around Weston Saint Ambrose, and a dead woman's body surfaces near a reclusive writer's riverside home. Jess Campbell recognises the victim as a local barmaid with a devoted ex con father, and must solve the murder before grief and anger explode into violence.

On the eve of his execution, a condemned man begs Inspector Ben Ross to hear his confession about a murder he witnessed seventeen years earlier. With no names and only a hazy memory of a house with a fox weathervane, Ben and Lizzie must test whether a desperate story hides a very real crime.

In this Campbell and Carter mystery, a suspicious death in a Cotswold community exposes old grudges and long hidden ties to the landscape itself. Jess Campbell and Ian Carter must sift village gossip, property disputes and personal history to find out who turned everyday bricks into a backdrop for murder.

Respectable but down at heel Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, and his neighbour is none other than Inspector Ben Ross. As Ben probes Tapley's shadowy past, Lizzie recalls seeing a watcher in the street and learns of a mysterious visitor who called days before the murder.

Reclusive Monty Bickerstaffe lives alone in a crumbling manor, disliked even by his relatives. When he finds a stranger's corpse laid out in his drawing room and claims never to have seen the man before, Jess Campbell and Ian Carter must dig deep into the Bickerstaffe family's history to explain the intrusion.

On a foggy October night in 1867, a well dressed woman is found dead in Green Park. She is Allegra Benedict, the Italian wife of an art dealer, last seen selling a valuable brooch. As Ben Ross investigates, Lizzie looks into Allegra's private life and the many motives for wanting her gone.

City businessman Lucas Burton drives to a derelict farm expecting a quick deal and instead finds a young woman's body in the cowshed. Inspector Jess Campbell, under pressure from her new superintendent Ian Carter, must work out what ties the victim, the flashy stranger and the farm's grim past together.

Fran Varady spots Edna, a once homeless "bag lady" she used to see in a churchyard, now living in a hostel but still roaming the streets. When Fran becomes convinced Edna is being followed, her attempts to protect the old woman drag up an old love affair, a bitter family feud and fresh danger.

Lizzie Martin is sent to the New Forest to comfort a young woman whose baby has died in disturbing circumstances. A rat catcher is soon found murdered in the garden, and Lizzie's charge is discovered nearby, covered in blood, forcing Lizzie and Ben Ross to sort madness from malice.

In 1864, Lizzie Martin becomes companion to a wealthy widow who owns London slums and learns that her predecessor supposedly ran off with a stranger. When the young woman's body is found in rubble near the new St Pancras station, Lizzie and Inspector Ben Ross uncover a far more sinister story.

Club owner Mickey Allerton holds Fran Varady's dog hostage to force her to track down Lisa, a dancer who has disappeared. Fran quickly finds Lisa, but before they can talk a brutal bouncer from the club turns up dead, leaving Fran caught between dangerous employers and a terrified witness.

Meredith's friend Toby Smythe asks for help when his cousin Alison receives hate letters accusing her of a long ago murder for which she was acquitted. As Markby reluctantly agrees to look into the poison pen campaign, a fresh death turns a troubling echo of the past into a present day hunt for a killer.

With a new job in a fashionable pizzeria and a slightly more secure life, Fran Varady thinks she is back on track. Then she agrees to help a frightened, undocumented boy find a people trafficker called Max and discovers her workplace and his plight are tied to something far more sinister.

House hunting in the remote village of Lower Stovey, Markby and Meredith are drawn into an old nightmare when bones are found in nearby woods. The remains revive memories of the "Potato Man," a serial rapist who vanished twenty years earlier, and someone in the village will do anything to keep the truth buried.

A private investigator tells Fran Varady that her long absent mother is dying and wants to see her. The reunion brings a bombshell: Fran has a younger half sister who vanished years ago. When the investigator is found dead, Fran's search for family becomes a dangerous hunt for a killer.

Two elderly Oakley sisters, living in faded grandeur, decide to sell their crumbling house and escape poverty. A young man from Poland arrives claiming a share of the estate, only to die of arsenic poisoning in a way that echoes a century old family case, forcing Markby to link past and present crimes.

When the body of Hugh Franklin's second wife is found on a railway embankment near the family farm, he becomes the obvious suspect. Markby doubts the simple answer, especially as twelve year old Tammy Franklin seems terrified of telling the full truth about what she saw that night.

While builders tear apart her friend's newsagent's shop, Fran Varady lets a distressed stranger use the back room. Hours later he is found stabbed, having left Fran a message and a hidden roll of film. Someone is willing to kill for the negatives, and now they know she has them.

Meredith gives a lift to a striking hitchhiker bound for a country house, where lawyer and Eurocrat Andrew Penhallow soon meets a violent end. As Markby investigates, the young woman vanishes, and the case spirals into questions of family loyalties, politics and a past Penhallow kept carefully concealed.

Buying a coffee for homeless "Alkie" Albie at Marylebone Station seems like a small kindness, until he claims to have witnessed a young woman's abduction. When the police dismiss him and Albie turns up dead, Fran Varady feels compelled to chase the truth herself.

Almost broke and about to be evicted from her London squat, aspiring actress Fran Varady is rocked when a secretive housemate is found hanged. Convinced it was not simple suicide, she starts investigating, pulling her into the lives and dangers of the people on society's fringes.

On holiday in the Cotswold village of Parsloe St John, Markby and Meredith meet a retired journalist obsessed with the suspicious death of lively Olivia Smeaton. Vandalism, a poisoned pony and another grisly death suggest Olivia's past still haunts the village, and that someone will kill to keep it hidden.

Meredith's old friend Sally moves to an Oxfordshire village with her volatile scientist husband, hoping for peace. Instead they get feuds with a goat keeping neighbour, a letter bomb and a very real threat from extremists. Markby and Meredith must work out who is stoking the violence before it turns fatal again.

Twelve years after teenage Kimberley Gresham vanished, a woman's body is unearthed in the family grave plot. Markby cuts short his holiday to investigate, while Meredith uncovers links between the dead girl, a powerful local family and secrets some villagers would rather stayed buried.

A chance encounter at the Chelsea Flower Show brings Meredith face to face with an old schoolfriend and, awkwardly, with Markby's ex wife. When a sudden death follows and suspicion falls close to home, Meredith and Markby find themselves digging through the glossy surface of a successful Cotswold business.

The murder of a teenage girl who left a pub with a stranger shocks Bamford, and soon another young woman from a prominent family is found dead in the family mausoleum. As Markby investigates, Meredith's friendship with the second girl pushes her into the dark heart of both households.

Joining an archaeological dig on farmland, Meredith expects Saxon skeletons, not a very recent corpse. When the victim proves to be the missing wife of a fellow archaeologist and her friend is threatened, Meredith and Markby must untangle old affairs, academic rivalries and a second killing.

Historic Springwood Hall has been converted into an upmarket country hotel, enraging preservationists and neighbours. At the glittering opening party, Meredith discovers a local campaigner stabbed in the wine cellar, drawing her and Markby into a case full of protests, scandal and arson.

A new housing development outside Bamford uncovers a man buried alive, while a local girl dies of an overdose and a site foreman is killed on a lonely road. Markby and Meredith probe the links between land deals, drugs and simmering rural resentments.

Foreign Office officer Meredith Mitchell returns to a Cotswold village for her goddaughter's wedding and finds spiteful messages, a murdered potter and family secrets boiling over. Working uneasily with Detective Inspector Alan Markby, she must balance loyalty and the search for a killer.

Back in the Bamford area and renting a cottage, Meredith Mitchell is just settling in when her friendly neighbour dies during a Boxing Day Hunt. With the crowded market square as a stage and plenty of witnesses, she and Markby must decide who turned a festivity into murder.

An inheritance that is not what it seems draws a resourceful heroine into a tangle of mistaken loyalties and simmering attraction. Surrounded by relatives, suitors and fortune hunters, she must uncover the truth about her fortune before she can trust her own heart.

In this historical love story, a woman on the brink of financial disaster strikes a risky bargain with a man whose reputation is far from spotless. As their agreement entangles them more deeply, scandal, family pressure and genuine feeling collide.

Set in a historical Europe of salons and country estates, this romance brings an independent minded heroine face to face with an unconventional American visitor whose presence upends her family's plans and forces both of them to rethink what they want from life and love.

A historical romance filled with travel, danger and an air of the exotic, in which a young woman is drawn into intrigue surrounding a place known as the Garden of the Azure Dragon and must choose between duty and an unexpected, deeply felt attachment.

Burdened with heavy debts on her Caribbean plantation, a determined heiress travels to England hoping to find a partner who can save her inheritance. Instead she meets suspicion, scandal and a man who forces her to weigh security against the risk of a love match.

This historical romance follows a once comfortable young woman reduced to living as a poor relation with distant kin. Faced with financial insecurity and limited choices, she must decide whether to accept a safe match or trust her heart when an unexpected suitor appears.