Jane A. Adams Bücher

Britain's nature year, from the first flower to the last leaf

When retired Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone disappears from the house he was staying in, and there are signs of a struggle in a room with eight peculiar windows, Inspector Mickey Hitchens investigates. Could Henry's disappearance be linked to an old case?

Rina's friend Bridie Duggan is tying the knot at a country house on a private island. While exploring Rina finds a dead body! A storm is rolling in and now there's no way on or off the island. Is it a guestlist or a Kill list?

1929. Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in a horsebox at Southwell Races, her handbag stolen. As DCI Henry Johnstone and Sergeant Mickey Hitchens investigate, it's clear this wasn't a robbery gone tragically wrong - Martha was deliberately murdered. Who was Martha Mason and what was she involved in that led to her murder?

January 5, 1930. On a winter morning, a man dumps a body on Bournemouth beach. The dead woman is Faun Moran, a wildchild in her twenties who was supposedly killed in a car crash the previous autumn. So who was the young woman in the car, and where has Faun Moran been all this time? DCI Henry Johnstone returns to work to solve this baffling mystery.

1930, Leicestershire. Local miscreant Brady Brewer is convicted and hanged for the brutal murder of Sarah Downham, despite his protestations of innocence and his sister's pleas for DCI Henry Johnstone's help. Two weeks later, the body of another young woman is found nearby. Is a copycat killer on the loose, or was Brewer innocent after all?

August. A long-running heatwave has been dominating the news for weeks, and a state of lethargy is affecting everyone - not least blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, who is experiencing a restless dissatisfaction with life in general. One ordinary Monday Naomi and her friends Harry and Patrick are in a high-street bank when an armed gang storm the building and take it hostage. Naomi - particularly vulnerable because of her lack of sight - is one of the captives. During the next few days, tensions rise as the situation grows fraught with danger, and the extreme heat intensifies… However, under the tight control of an unpredictable and volatile persecutor, Ted Harper, the heat is the least of Naomi’s worries… She knows this man. Knows who and what he was and the knowledge does nothing to reassure her… Ted Harper never forgets and never forgives…

1928. When two bodies are found washed up in the Kentish marshes, DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens recognize one of them as being a known associate of one of the East End's most notorious gangsters. But what were the victims doing in this remote and desolate spot? Is it a set-up? A revenge attack? Or something even more sinister?

The discovery of the bodies of two retired policemen, Walter Cole and Hayden Paul, sounds warning bells to DCI Henry Johnstone. Their deaths were staged to look like suicides, and Hayden left a note containing two words: old sins. Henry is forced to relive an old case he worked on with Cole and Paul. Is someone playing a deadly game with Henry?