A man's home is his castle, but for Percy Spender ('call me perce') that motto has been taken just a bit too literally. After the sudden death of first one distant relative and then another, the amiable Perce has become the 12th Earl ...

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kidsbut no one ever came for Simon Thorn...

In this superbly written suspense novel from British author Barnard,...former soccer star Matt Harper, now a television and radio personality, is the new owner of Elderholm, one of a small street of sturdy old houses in Leeds. As he a...

Not so much a puzzle as an excursion into deep dealings from the past. If Barnard is the Jane Austen of mystery writers, then this is his SENSE & SENSIBILITY: pleasantly sentimental, morally unambiguous, and relatively unsurprising.

The letter arrived on the front doormat of Glencoe, the residence of the Chairman of the Twytching District Council, on Wednesday morning, but (the Chairman being busy in the kitchen frying bacon and mushrooms, poaching eggs and toast...

At the Ketterick Arts Festival, the apprentice is just about the only fella that is chaste, know what I mean (wink wink nudge nudge)? Ah, the pleasures of smutty innuendo, and no one relishes them more than Des Capper, a font of dubio...

A small-town vicar's daughter, Sara Causseley could not be more delighted by her new job as governess to the aristocratic Hallam clan. The children are precociously adorable, the gardens at Hallam House are a dream, and the conversati...

From Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer . . .Some memories are better left buried in the past. Well-known author Graham Broadbent has managed to repress one particularly dangerous memory ...

The wife of a vicar, Rosemary Sheffield suddenly decides she no longer believes in God, leaves her marriage, and befriends a Bosnian named Stanko, who ends leading her back to the parish and embroiling her murder investigation. ...

A beguiling new mystery set in the unpredictable world of a long-running soap opera by Diamond Dagger award winner Robert Barnard.

Retiring from her television acting career and settling down with her teenage children in their English mansion home, Caroline Fawley, who is having an affair with a married man, begins to worry for her security when her lover goes mi...