#1 – Killigrew of the Royal Navy
In 1847 Lieutenant Kit Killigrew joins the Royal Navy’s campaign against the illegal Atlantic slave trade. With support from Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, he enters the trading networks of West Africa to identify a major slave market and expose a British investor whose money protects the…
#3 – Killigrew and the Incorrigibles
South Pacific, 1850. Kit Killigrew and HMS Tisiphone sail for Norfolk Island carrying the penal settlement’s new governess and a journalist seeking an interview with Irish political prisoner Devin Cusack. The voyage changes when six dangerous convicts escape and begin moving through the islands. Killigrew pursues…
#4 – Killigrew and the North-West Passage
In 1852 Lieutenant Kit Killigrew joins a Royal Navy search for Sir John Franklin’s missing Arctic expedition. The mission enters poorly charted waters under a captain whose pursuit of fame repeatedly places the ships and crews at risk of entrapment in the ice. As the Arctic…
#5 – Killigrew’s Run
The Baltic, 1854. As the British fleet begins operations against Russia during the Crimean War, Commander Kit Killigrew is ordered to recover Viscount Bullivant, a civilian war tourist captured with information the Russians consider important. Negotiations fail, and Killigrew himself falls into the hands of the…
#6 – Killigrew and the Sea Devil
In 1855 Commander Kit Killigrew is framed for murder by Colonel Nekrasoff and forced into the Victorian underworld to avoid arrest. His attempt to clear his name becomes an undercover mission to St Petersburg, where a missing engineer may hold the key to a Russian secret…