The Complete Catalogue

All the Books

Ten titles: five mysteries for DI Ambrose, and five that go somewhere else entirely.

Series

The DI Ambrose Mysteries

Chalk Heath, from 1958 onwards. Read them in any order — each case closes, but the team keeps changing.

A DI Ambrose Mystery

Chalk Heath Players are mid-rehearsal when the leading lady is found unconscious at the side of the stage. It is clearly not an accident.

A DI Ambrose Mystery

DI Ambrose goes undercover at an artistic house party at the fading Chalk Heath Hall. How do you poison one guest when everybody eats the same food?

A DI Ambrose Mystery

A touring choir, a string of hotel thefts, and the vicious murder of the lead soprano. Why would anyone want the best singer dead?

A DI Ambrose Mystery

Threatening packages reach the judges of a poetry competition. Then two of them die in apparent accidents, and the trail leads to Guernsey.

A DI Ambrose Mystery

It is 1960. The boss’ daughter is missing, organised crime is moving onto the patch, and a skull turns up in a school’s grounds.

Beyond the Beat

Short stories, a family saga, a wartime record, and two novels set in a future that feels uncomfortably close.

Short Stories

Eighteen tales of murder and mystery, set in eighteen different times and places. A book to dip in and out of.

A Family Saga

Martha Cooper comes home from Australia to a village, a river, and the death of a teenage boy she has never stopped remembering.

A Wartime Record

The letters Lewis Hill wrote home to his wife from the moment he was mustered into the RAF in 1941, and everywhere the war then sent him.

A Futuristic Thriller

A twenty-second-century England where the Keepers enforce peace and happiness at any cost. To want knowledge is treason.

A Companion Novel to The Keepers

Jude is a skilled member of The Corporation’s security force. In a world of subterfuge and spies, trusting the wrong person is a death sentence.