Some of her earlier works were released under the pseudonym Jane Adams. It is important to distinguish this author from another writer who also used the name Jane Adams.
After retiring, Henry Johnstone is unexpectedly pulled back into the world of crime-solving when a new twist emerges in a cold case from Lincolnshire. This gripping mystery unfolds as he navigates the complexities of the past, revealing secrets and connections that challenge his skills and instincts as a former detective chief inspector.
Rina's friend Bridie Duggan is tying the knot at a country house on a private island. While exploring Rina finds a dead body! A storm is rolling in and now there's no way on or off the island. Is it a guestlist or a Kill list?
Britain's nature year, from the first flower to the last leaf
When retired Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone disappears from the house he was staying in, and there are signs of a struggle in a room with eight peculiar windows, Inspector Mickey Hitchens investigates. Could Henry's disappearance be linked to an old case?
1930, Leicestershire. Local miscreant Brady Brewer is convicted and hanged for the brutal murder of Sarah Downham, despite his protestations of innocence and his sister's pleas for DCI Henry Johnstone's help. Two weeks later, the body of another young woman is found nearby. Is a copycat killer on the loose, or was Brewer innocent after all?
January 5, 1930. On a winter morning, a man dumps a body on Bournemouth beach. The dead woman is Faun Moran, a wildchild in her twenties who was supposedly killed in a car crash the previous autumn. So who was the young woman in the car, and where has Faun Moran been all this time? DCI Henry Johnstone returns to work to solve this baffling mystery.
1929. Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in a horsebox at Southwell Races, her handbag stolen. As DCI Henry Johnstone and Sergeant Mickey Hitchens investigate, it's clear this wasn't a robbery gone tragically wrong - Martha was deliberately murdered. Who was Martha Mason and what was she involved in that led to her murder?
The discovery of the bodies of two retired policemen, Walter Cole and Hayden Paul, sounds warning bells to DCI Henry Johnstone. Their deaths were staged to look like suicides, and Hayden left a note containing two words: old sins. Henry is forced to relive an old case he worked on with Cole and Paul. Is someone playing a deadly game with Henry?
Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone discovers that things are not as they first appear when clockmaker Abraham Levy’s nephew goes missing.February, 1929. Clockmaker Abraham Levy’s young nephew has vanished. He was last seen boarding a train on his way to see his fiancée, and with no sign of foul play, the suspicion is that he may have got cold feet about his upcoming nuptials and alighted at an earlier stop. The police seem to think so, but Abraham isn’t convinced.Feeling he has no other option, Abraham makes an unexpected visit to DCI Henry Johnstone to appeal for his help. Despite his initial reluctance, Henry’s curiosity gets the better of him, and his review of the case soon leads to a startling discovery. As Henry is plunged fully into a new investigation, it seems the truth is far more complicated and disturbing than it first appeared.
"There's a man with a gun standing in my garden. I want something done about it." When a man breaks into Molly Chambers' house she tells the police that she has never seen him before. Ex-DI Alec Friedman - her honorary nephew - isn't so sure. Molly has lived an eventful life, as the wife of a diplomat, and he knows she is still haunted by the horrors of more than one war. Alec and his blind wife, Naomi, want to help, but prickly Molly is a private person, and he and Naomi have their own pressing issues: now that Alec has resigned from the police, what should he do next? And where should they make their home? But while Alec has quit the force, the force hasn't quit him - his former colleague, DI Barnes, wants to bring him in on the case unofficially, and Alec finds it hard to say no. But just what is it that Molly has got herself in to? Alec and Naomi only find out just what murky waters they're wading in when it's much too late . . .