Found Wanting

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A young graduate starts to investigate the fall from grace of an Edwardian cabinet minister and sets in train a bizarre and violent chain of events.

DAILY MAIL

 

An extraordinary story unfolds as Leonora Galloway strives to solve the mystery of her father’s death, her mother’s unhappy childhood and a First World War murder.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

 

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard’s life changes for ever with the arrival of an unexpected stranger.

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

 

When a young woman disappears and Harry Barnett is accused of her murder he has no option but to try and discover what led her to vanish into the blue.

DAILY MIRROR

 

September 1923, and architect Geoffrey Staddon must return to the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission,

to confront the dark secret that it holds.

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

 

The death of a young English poet in the Spanish Civil

War casts a shadow forward over half a century.

GUARDIAN

 

1931, and two English fraudsters on a transatlantic liner stumble into deep trouble when they target a young heiress.

INDEPENDENT

 

A brief encounter with a stranger who is murdered soon afterwards draws Robin Timariot into the complex relationships and motives of the dead woman’s family and friends.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

 

Harry Barnett becomes entangled in a sinister conspiracy when he learns that the son he never knew he had is languishing in hospital in a coma.

MAIL ON SUNDAY

 

The scion of a wealthy Cornish dynasty reinvestigates a 1947 murder

and begins to doubt the official version of events.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

 

A photographer’s obsession with a femme fatale leads him into a web of double jeopardy.

THE TIMES

 

A strange house links past and present, a murder, a political scandal and an unexplained tragedy.

OXFORD TIMES

 

A spell-binding mystery involving a mysterious package, murder and

financial scandal, set in 18th-century London, Amsterdam and Rome.

OBSERVER

 

A missing document, a forty-year-old murder and the Great Train Robbery all seem to have connections with a modern-day disappearance.

DAILY MAIL

 

Once Nick Paleologus has excavated a terrible secret from his archaeologist father’s career, nothing will ever be the same again.

THE TIMES

 

Actor Toby Flood finds himself a player in a much bigger game when he investigates a man who appears to be a stalker.

SUNDAY TIMES

 

An innocent bystander is pulled into a mystery which takes over twenty years to unravel when he witnesses the abduction of a child.

THE TIMES

 

The convivial atmosphere of a reunion weekend is shattered by an apparent suicide.

THE TIMES

 

A centuries old mystery is about to unravel. . .

DAILY MIRROR

LONDON

ONE

The sky over Whitehall is doughy grey, the air chill and granular. It is a Monday morning in early February, yet winter has seemingly only just begun after a dank, extended autumn. The cold is almost a tonic for Richard Eusden as he emerges from the Churchill Café, mug of strong black coffee in hand, and sits down at one of the pavement tables. He drops his briefcase beside his chair, sinks his chin within the sheltering collar of his overcoat and lets the warmth of the coffee seep into his palm as he surveys the familiar scene.