Peter Schofield

Two drivers break their journey from Morocco to Portugal. Unnoticed, a mysterious package drops from under their truck and sets off a dramatic chain of events.

As a member of the 800 year old Queen's Messenger Corps, the author travels the world delivering diplomatic bags and along the way collecting rare plants and odd people.

When a spinster is found bludgeoned to death in the church and a valuable chalice is missing, suspicion falls on the new vicar. Journalist, Jill Francis, soon finds herself involved despite the antagonism of Inspector Richard Thornhill.

Dalgliesh and his team are called in to invetigate the death of the trustee of a private museum. The museum is dedicated to life between 1919 and 1939, and in one room are exhibits from notorious murder cases. The modern killer is uncannily echoing the cases on display in The Murder Room.  Book 12 of series.

When the school secretary announces that junior school life is getting her down, the headmaster sends her on a commando style training course.

Fifteen years ago Muriel Brown was raped and murdered. Detective Superintendent Mark Pemberton is determined to solve the crime but he suffers a setback when DI Hadley is assigned to the case. Hadley's past record is called into question and Pemberton must prove his innocence.  Book 2 of series.

In 1866 Inspector Barnabas Tripp and his small police team have to deal with several serious crimes in the small town of Hitchin. Murder, robbery, arson, rape and kidnap are all recorded in the Inspector's casebook.

Assuming it to be medieval, Detective Peter Diamond is unimpressed when a severed hand is discovered in a vault. When the hand turns out to be from the early 1980's, Diamond has a thankless investigation to work on.

Driven out of Cuba after the loss of his young wife and his huge sugar plantation, Mariano Grau and his young daughter Marini arrive in Queensland in search of a new life.