Rob Mangan has problems. His small independent research lab is on the brink of bankruptcy and his wife's gone off with the fish tank cleaner. So when Rob and his brother Phil are offered a small fortune to develop surgical dressings using sphagnum moss, they jump at the opportunity.But things that seem too good to be true, usually are. In Mossfire, the first R&P Labs mystery, the five scientists-turned-detectives -- Rob, Phil, Ellis, Virginia and Mitch -- match wits with a mint-suc...

He's considered a heretic. She's a 13-year-old thief. Jacob Silver and Sarah Simm are mistrusted by the residents of their Cotswold market town even before the suspicious death of wealthy merchant Thomas Martyn – a man with the power to destroy both of them. But a secret night visit, a hidden scandal and a second murder mean that the two outsiders on the fringes of society are now thrust into the spotlight. Can this unlikely duo discover the truth others have missed – or concealed?...

When popular shopkeeper Albert Clarke confided that he was thinking of marrying, everyone advised him not to rush into it. After all, he had not even met the object of his affections, simply exchanged letters with her. And now Clarke is embroiled in a murder, where clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah must help the police discover old secrets, and keep new ones from being revealed.'Word to the Wise' is the 23rd novel in the Silver and Simm Victorian Mystery series.

Rose Miles was young, wealthy, recently widowed and bored out of her mind. Theodore Stone was trying to find a way to avoid joining the family business. When their paths crossed in dramatic fashion, it seemed logical for them to join forces -- and the Milestone Investigative Agency was the result.'Oxford Blue' is the first novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries series

Hunger drove 13-year-old Sarah Simm to steal a valuable gold pocket watch. Kindness prompted Jacob Silver to offer her a job rather than see her jailed for the theft. Those two acts changed both their lives forever.'Sarah's Story' is a companion book to 'Tools of the Trade', the first book in the Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries series, re-telling the story of their meeting and their first case from Sarah's point of view.

It seemed a simple job for the Milestone Investigative Agency – find an undergraduate who had failed to write home since arriving in Oxford. But nothing about student Felix Burton was quite as it first appeared, and Rose Miles and Theodore Stone soon find themselves involved in the biggest gamble of their lives.

Truth can be stranger than fiction, as Rose Miles and Theo Stone discover when the success of Theo's first published novel leads the Milestone Investigative Agency into a case involving a packing crate with unusual contents, a runaway girl terrified into silence and a businessman with a guilty secret.'Oxford Brass' is the second book in the Milestone Agency Victorian series.

The Milestone Agency faces a new challenge when they are hired to pin down the source of rumors which are destroying a young playwright's reputation. Alexander Wilcox insists he did not shoot his wealthy uncle, and has no idea why anyone should say he did. When the rumors escalate into violence, Theo and Rose know they must find a killer in order to prove their client's innocence, as the phrase 'no smoke without fire' takes on a new and sinister meaning.'Oxford Smoke' is the eighth...

Three sisters in a quiet Cotswold town, each one hiding a secret. Three outwardly unconnected deaths. And one person silently manipulating events, as each death brings them a step closer to a potential fortune. It isn't until clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah are drawn into the police investigation that the link between the three deaths becomes clear – and that discovery could put one of them in danger of becoming the next victim.

Having lost both her husband and her job, Zukie Merlino has time on her hands and a mystery to solve. Night after night, someone is searching the empty house next door, whose elderly owner died following an unusually explosive Fourth of July. A second death in the house brings out all Zukie's detective instincts and with the help of her reluctant accomplice Lou, she launches her own investigation using her wits, her wigs and a coffee cake or two.

It was to be the society wedding of the season, but one crucial element was missing – the groom. The Honorable Thomas Stoddard was last seen on a rail platform in London, preparing to embark for Oxford, but he never arrived. Meanwhile, a laborer with a connection to Stoddard has met a sticky end on a farm in west Oxfordshire. With two bereaved fiancées, two furious fathers and a pugnacious newspaper editor involved, clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah are called upon to help the...

A street party on a hot summer evening takes a deadly turn when one of the revellers dies, apparently from food poisoning. But there's more to the death than first meets the eye, and the five R&P Labs staff members find themselves drawn into a case of love, loathing and lemon meringue pie.'Halfbaked' is a short story of about 16,500 words. It also appears in the collection 'Four by Five' and introduced Zukie Merlino, who then insisted on being featured in her own full-length novels...