The year is 1881 and the SS Atlantica heads for New York City with first-class passengers expecting the very best of everything, but never expecting murder. Amongst them, quite by chance, is the finest amateur detective in the British Empire. When Lord Fothington is stabbed to death, and none with motive could also have been present at the time, Peregrine Sebastopol is intrigued. When the same victim is inexplicably murdered a second time, Sebastopol faces the most baffling crime he has ev...

What drives a man to obsession? In a secret laboratory, funded by the military, one man is about to break the shackles of linear time and go back. Back to his past, to his youth and to his love. Back with the intention to make things right, but can the flow of time be altered so easily?

On a remote, desolate planet something is amiss. Several somethings in fact. With something watching them, a murderer amongst them and no way of escaping, the small research team on Graves' World are going to need all the help they can get. Help which may have just arrived in the shape of Taylor West. He's turned his hand to solving mysteries in the past but has rarely been in so much danger. Because there is far more to this planet than meets the eye, and not everyone wants his help....

Unfamiliar Ports Step on board for a journey. We’ll find ourselves dropping anchor in new harbours and we’ll see things we haven’t seen before. Destinations that are surprising, and ones that are often dangerous. Along the way, we’ll reconnect with a couple of travellers we might have met elsewhere, and we’ll cross paths with a lot of new faces; not all of whom will prove to be the most congenial company. Nine short stories set in the past, the present and the future.