Summer 1923, and as the village of Queensferry prepares for the annual Ferry Fair and the walk of the Burry Man, feelings are running high. With his pagan greenery, his lucky pennies and the nips of whisky he is treated to wherever he goes, the...
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his memoir Confessions of an Opium Eater, is the prime suspect in a series of horrific murders that paralyze London.
The killer seems to be imitating De Quincey's true-crime essay "On Murder Considered to be One of...
It is 1320 and civil war is looming in England as the monk Ralph of Houndeslow rides into Crediton. Ralph faces a daunting task in his new position as Master of St Lawrence's, the leper hospital. Not only are his charges grievously ill, they are...