Spain threatens to invade England, and the people of Plymouth are understandably fearful. They watch for enemy sails on the horizon, and worry about spies and traitors in their midst. But one person in the city already knows how events will unfold, and she has more on her mind than a potential invasion.A tear in the curtain of time has stranded Alexandra Barton in 1588, with no idea how she got there or how to return to the present. If that weren't enough, she has to decide whether...

Jessica Hughes never intended to be a detective. Private investigator Philip Burgess never expected to be shot while on his way to a concert. But with Philip hospitalized, Jessica agrees to step in and investigate a case where a suicide is looking more and more like a murder. What's more, she finds she's actually enjoying her new career, despite the lecherous attention of her temporary boss, an unexpected end to a boating trip and the difficulty of attempting a high speed car chase while d...

Why would a thief steal a china bowl, a letter opener and a handkerchief? And why have the objects then reappeared in unusual places? It's a Christmas mystery for Theo and Rose to solve in this Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries short story.

A young police constable is shot while walking through an Oxford park. A wealthy woman hires the Milestone Agency to find a valuable missing ring. The two events would seem to have absolutely nothing in common, but that's before Theo and Rose discover a unexpected connection, one that could have fatal consequences.'Oxford Copper' is the ninth novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mystery series.

Brian Connell was a photographer with a short attention span where wives were concerned; he went through three of them in five years. But that didn't mean he was guilty of murder, and it didn't stop him from dashing off to photograph an erupting volcano, accompanied by writer turned detective Jessica Hughes. Her job is not only to report on the eruption, but to keep Brian out of the clutches of the law until she and partner Philip Burgess can track down a killer who is as hard to pin down ...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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?...

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.