Nathaniel Parker

Chronicles the creation of a picturesque home and landscape on the Hudson River by one of the nineteenth century's leading authors. During the 1850s and 60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806—1867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary elites gathered and about which Willis himself wrote and published...

Pursuing a violent criminal, Lynley and Havers are drawn to a family seaside town.

Havers and her new partner investigate a murder when a body is found in a local lake.

A violinist loses his nerve on stage and some miles away a lonely woman is killed in a hit and run accident. How are they connected? Inspector Lynley and DS Havers find themselves embroiled in a case that re-opens a murder enquiry.

Havers and Lynley investigate the case of a murdered doorkeeper from the House of Lords. A second murder suggests a wider conspiracy.

The body of cricket star, Kenneth Fleming, is found in a burnt out house and seems to be the victim of an arson attack. It emerges that Kenneth has three women in his life - his lifelong patron and mentor, Miriam Whitelaw, his married lover, Gabriella Patten and his childhood sweetheart and devoted wife Jeannie.

Lynley's wife Helen helps with an investigation into the shooting of a photographer.

Life in the peaceful Yorkshire village of Keldale is turned upside down when the local priest, Father Hart, stumbles upon a gruesome murder. Local farmer, William Tey, has been decapitated in his barn. His obese 16- year-old daughter, Roberta, is found next to her father's body in a severely traumatized state.