1. The Darkest Walk
London, 1848. Newly promoted Detective James Mendick is assigned to investigate warnings that Chartist campaigners may be preparing violence after years of failed petitions and political exclusion. His inquiry moves through meetings, informants and working-class districts where genuine demands for reform are easily confused with government…
2. A Burden Shared
Detective Sergeant James Mendick travels to Dundee to collect a prisoner, expecting a routine journey back to London. Instead, local events keep him in the industrial city and involve him in a case whose violence reaches across families, workplaces and institutions that would prefer an outsider…
3. The Golden Voyage
Detective Sergeant James Mendick is sent to recover a duke’s stolen yacht, but the apparently straightforward property crime becomes a maritime trap. Carried into the South Atlantic aboard a suspicious vessel, he encounters criminals, coerced crewmen and a voyage whose true purpose is concealed behind wealth…