December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive Works is an army of men pourin..

Now that Nell’s three sons are in work and becoming more independent she’s ready to build a new ..

With Valentine's Day fast approaching Persimmon “Simmy” Brown's flower shop near Lake Windermere..

A suspicious funeral a fatal encounter at a garden centre of all places and a country walk marred by..

The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country a..

During a blackout on the streets of London in late 1944 a young Polish land girl Rosa Nowak is sudde..

1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Encl..

When DI Wesley Peterson is summoned to investigate a killing he assumes that it is a routine case. B..

When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding DS Wesley Peterson a keen amateur archaeologis..

Cambridge 1939. The opening weeks of the Second World War and the first blackout - The Great Darknes..

Summer has come to Windermere where Persimmon “Simmy” Brown runs her own florist shop. But the s..

Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the brightest stars in the Elizabethan firmament. Born into relative o..

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its so..

1901 Wiltshire: Kathleen's family are determined to force her into marriage with a violent man. In d..

The House at Old Vine is the second in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a..