It's France, 1705. Captain Daniel Rawson is always ready for adventure, so when the Duke of Marlborough proposes a dangerous undercover mission to discover what has happened to one of their spies, a Dutch tapestry-maker, Rawson happily accepts.

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Hallowe'en. Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history of murder, becomes fascinated by the old cases, and wonders whether the obvious suspects really did commit the crimes.

When a herdsman is found dead, Sergeant Den Cooper happily suspects Gordon Hillcock, who is dating Den's ex-fiancee, Lilah. But how far will Lilah go to protect her new lover?

After the death of her husband, Rose Trevelyan lives peacefully in Cornwall. But when she hears terrified screams, Rose finds herself suddenly caught at the centre of a police investigation.

When Rose Trevelyan sees a young girl being carried away by someone who appears to be her father, she thinks nothing of it. Until, that is, the appearance of a frantic mother who cannot find her child. As time passes, it becomes clear that the chances of getting Beth back unharmed are very bleak indeed...

Rose Trevelyan finds herself at the heart of the investigation.

An adventurous tale of mischief, humour and deception, Nicander and Marius face danger of the highest order, where nothing in the land of the Roman Empire is quite what it seems.

Rose Trevelyan's peaceful life is rocked by the murder of a female client she hoped would become a friend.