The Secrets of Wishtide (Laetitia Rodd Mysteries 1)Mrs Laetitia Rodd is the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon, living modestly in Hampstead with her landlady Mrs Bentley. She is also a private detective of the utmost discretion. In winter 1850, her brother Frederick, a criminal barrister, introduces her to Sir James Calderstone, a wealthy and powerful industrialist who asks Mrs Rodd to investigate the background of an 'unsuitable' woman his son intends to marry a match he is determined to prevent.

a hard-living coalmining town where his father finds work as a union organizer

His work only interrupted when he becomes father to the son he has longed for for twenty years

Wallander agrees to travel to Riga to help solve the crimes

a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist

along with the rest of the world

Though the events of All Involved are fictional

she has sent her six children and an army of water rats out into the world to plunder treasure to adorn her palace

Through the layer of dead leaves

In six sections

and features a family that makes the Addams family seem almost normal

Amis's first volume of short stories for over a decade includes Mr Barrett's secret account of his daughter Elizabeth's involvement with the poet Browning

He spends every day searching for his daughter