Maureen Jennings Books in Order

In Toronto's winter of 1895, a young woman's frozen body is found in a laneway. Acting detective William Murdoch follows clues through wealthy homes and brothels, confronting hidden connections while officials pressure him to bring the investigation to a quick end.

A murdered midwife leaves William Murdoch investigating the people who depended on her secretive services. In Victorian Toronto, the case draws together respectable households and theatrical lives, exposing private fears behind public appearances while Murdoch struggles with his own loneliness.

Constable Oliver Wicken appears to have killed himself, leaving behind a mother and invalid sister who depended on him. William Murdoch questions that conclusion and investigates a neighboring family whose reluctance to explain itself suggests a more complicated death.

Jennings offers practical exercises for people who want to explore their creativity but feel blocked by self-doubt. Drawing on her work as a psychotherapist and group leader, she encourages observation, experimentation, and expression without demanding polished artistic results.

William Murdoch's estranged, abusive father awaits execution for murder and asks his son to prove his innocence. As Murdoch questions witnesses and confronts a secret from childhood, the investigation forces him to examine painful loyalties within his own family.

A teacher finds disturbing photographs involving thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher, who then disappears from school. Outraged by evidence of the girl's exploitation, William Murdoch searches for the photographer and the missing child through the darker corners of Victorian Toronto.

A police conference in Edinburgh is interrupted when Christine Morris learns that her estranged mother has vanished after a vehicular homicide. Traveling to Stornoway, she becomes entangled in a suspicious death, family tensions, and danger surrounding a planned royal visit.

The murder of a Presbyterian minister initially looks like a robbery, but William Murdoch finds inconsistencies that demand further investigation. Following the victim's missing belongings leads him into Toronto's world of poverty and vagrancy, where appearances offer unreliable explanations.

Two murders in Toronto draw William Murdoch toward a history reaching back to a woman's abduction and sale into slavery decades earlier. As he investigates the city's Black community, old violence and present danger complicate his search for the killer.

Forensic profiler Christine Morris helps a colleague search for his missing daughter, only to discover she has been murdered. The victim's commitment to Deaf culture and decisions about motherhood had provoked opposition, leaving Christine to untangle family conflict and possible motives.

In Shropshire in 1940, Tom Tyler investigates a young woman's murder near a camp for interned Germans. An uneasy alliance with a psychiatrist inside the camp challenges wartime assumptions about enemies, while Tyler's own troubles complicate his work.

An explosion at a Birmingham munitions factory kills young women working for the war effort. As Tom Tyler questions employees and the owner, divisions within the factory make him suspect that the apparent accident conceals a deliberate and wider threat.

A double murder disrupts a secluded convalescent hospital for wartime casualties near Ludlow in 1942. Tom Tyler investigates how violence entered the supposed refuge, while mysterious letters describing distant crimes suggest that the war's horrors have followed its patients home.

In wartime Ludlow, two evacuated children discover an old man's body in a secluded hiding place. Tom Tyler suspects they are withholding information, but when they vanish from their foster home, solving the murder also means finding them before danger closes in.

In Toronto in 1917, William Murdoch's wounded son returns from the war carrying secrets he will not discuss. Murders targeting men exempt from conscription leave Murdoch fearing that his son's silence may be connected to the investigation.

During Toronto's 1936 heat wave, Charlotte Frayne investigates suspected theft from a café owned by former prisoners of war. An antisemitic letter sent to her employer adds another inquiry, and the seemingly separate troubles reveal unexpected connections across the city.

Left in charge of the detective agency, Charlotte Frayne investigates a wounded veteran's supposed suicide and infiltrates a clothing manufacturer. A supervisor's murder brings police involvement, while the two cases and complications at the Paradise Café crowd her unsettled personal life.

In Depression-era Toronto, Charlotte Frayne shelters a German refugee carrying dangerous information while helping her estranged mother find a missing son. As the investigations converge, Christmas preparations at the Paradise Cafe bring further complications to her already unsettled life.