This author crafts compelling crime fiction, weaving intricate plots across diverse historical settings and global locales. His work spans series set in Victorian London, post-war Spain, and contemporary Cheshire, demonstrating a talent for creating complex mysteries and believable characters. He excels at drawing readers into a world of suspense and investigation, underpinned by a deep understanding of historical context and human psychology. His narratives are known for their intellectual depth and authentic atmosphere.
Spanning 20 years, this is at once a family saga and a story of the indomitable working class spirit; it is also the story of a beautiful woman - Becky Taylor - who is determined to rise above her origins and lead a better life.
When Captain Robert Kineally went missing from Haverton American Army base in Devon in 1944, it was generally assumed he had lost his nerve and deserted. But now, 20 years after the war, a body found on the near-derelict base seems to tell an entirely different story.
Sam Clarke and his wife Lil are a devoted couple - despite the odd argument that so often stems from Sam's quick sense of humour. But they are always united in their determination to take on whatever life throws at them. And there are certainly problems to cope with: such as their son, Eddie, interested only in those newfangled automobiles; their vague, other-wordly daughter Peggy, who desperately wants to buy a goat and will even break the law to raise the money. But it is their elder daughter, Annie, they worry about most, as she seems to be on the brink of making the wrong choice in love ...
After the murder of a seventeen-year-old girl, an Oxford secret society is exposed in this series first
"Superior... Refreshingly, Spencer doesn't make Redhead, who's capable of snark and petty malice, wholly likable. Readers will look forward to the further adventures of this distinctive lead" - Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewPrivate investigator Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate a murder that's left the police baffled, in this gripping historical mystery set partly in 1970's Oxford and partly in war-torn 1940's London.Oxford, 1975. Three years ago, world-renowned anthropologist Grace Stockton was slain in a brutal, unprovoked attack. Despite a large-scale police investigation, the identity of the prime suspect was never uncovered . . . and neither was the location of Grace's head. But Grace's daughter, the wealthy academic Julia Pemberton, refuses to accept that the trail has run cold. Determined to find out who killed her mother, she knows just the woman for the private investigator Jennie Redhead. Who was the woman caught on CCTV visiting Grace's isolated home on the day of the murder? And why did she cut off her victim's head? Jennie's search for answers takes her on a dark, disturbing journey into the past, from the ancient tribal customs of Papua New Guinea, to war-torn 1940's London, and to a dark tangle of secrets and scandal that someone is desperate should never be revealed . . .
DCI Monika Paniatowski has never forgotten her first, difficult encounter with Whitebridge businessman Jordan Gough. Nor, she thinks, has he. So when he claims he's been receiving death threats and only she can help, she thinks he's up to something - and makes a terrible mistake .
Bristol, 1991. On his way to a meeting with several members of Conroy Enterprises, Rob Conroy - black sheep of the family - is the only one to walk away alive when the hire car crashes. As Rob struggles to make sense of it all, one thing becomes clear: the crash was not an accident, so the intended victim might not be dead ...
When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke's College ? two bodies, buried thirty years apart ? the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers a series of scandals stretching back sixty years, Jennie wonders how well she really knows her old friend Charlie ?and whether she can trust him.
Despite being retired from the Force, ex-DCI Monika Paniatowski doesn't hesitate to help when her former sergeant, Kate Meadows, gets mixed up in a crime she didn't commit. But as Monika gets deeper into the investigation, she's forced to ask herself the unthinkable: is Kate really innocent, or is she helping her old friend get away with murder?
This 1950s saga revolves around the relationship between three young men. As they grow up, they begin to discover that life is more complicated than they had imagined, as fate forces them into a tragic conflict.
