1. Shadow of the Hangman
In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Trouble ensues when a woman…
2. Steps to the Gallows
London is being entertained by a scandal newspaper whose editor seems able to uncover political secrets, sexual indiscretions and private corruption with unnerving accuracy. When the editor is murdered and the printing press smashed, the paper’s financier hires the twin investigators Peter and Paul Skillen to…
3. Date with the Executioner
1817. Dawn breaks on a summer's day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady's two ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly and, although he is not sanguine of his chances, stands…
4. Fugitive from the Grave
1817. Clemency van Emden receives an anonymous terse message informing her that her estranged father is dead and buried. Confounded by this news and desperate to visit her father's final resting place, she returns from Holland determined to seek answers. A chance encounter on a busy…
5. Rage of the Assassin
London, 1817. A crowd gathers outside Covent Garden Theatre to see the celebrated actress Hannah Granville, but a gunshot leaves reform-minded MP Sir Roger Mellanby dead before she emerges. Mellanby’s political positions have created enemies at Westminster and within his own family, yet the Bow Street…