The Midnight Washerwomen

October, 1735. The nights are drawing in and ghosts walk abroad. Voltaire and Emilie are summoned to Brittany to investigate a haunting, but matters soon take a darker turn. The past will not stay buried. Old sins are very present concerns. Trying to unravel the mystery, Voltaire and Emilie find themselves confronted by secrets and lies at every turn. And then Emilie comes face to face with Death himself...


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Memmie, The Maid of Chalons

It is the early eighteenth century and a feral child is spotted near the French village of Songi.

But who is she and where has she come from?

And why has Utlunta, also known as Spear-Finger, tracked her halfway round the world?


Memmie, The Maid of Chalons

Agatha Witherington - The Ghost of a Flea

London, 2009.

What connects an archaeological dig in Stratford to a series of hauntings at churches across the city? 

Agatha Witherington, septuagenarian white witch, is called in to investigate, but her investigation becomes personal when her niece is struck down by a mysterious illness. With time running out and the disease claiming more victims, Agatha seeks help from unlikely sources. The answer lies buried in London history, but this time it may prove too elusive even for Agatha and her friends.

An ancient evil has been released and London will burn.

The Ghost of a Flea

Agatha Witherington - The Hairbrush That Saved Christmas

Aleister Crowley. Poet, painter, magician and "wickedest man in the world". Former owner of a hairbrush.

Agatha Louise Witherington. Septuagenarian, white witch, lover of Darjeeling and occasional paranormal investigator. Tasked with locating said hairbrush.

And if she fails then this could be the last Christmas Eve that London will ever see.

The Hairbrush That Saved Christmas

The Angels of Music - Death at Bargain Prices

Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the opera...

Au Bonheur des Dames, Paris' latest, greatest department store, is promoting its Christmas sale with a spectacular display of life-size automata, but a series of acts of sabotage threaten to close the store permanently. Is this the work of anarchists or something more sinister?

Going undercover, Jennie Baxter, Laura de Gueran and Loveday Brooke discover more than just seemingly random acts of destruction. Shop-girls are vanishing without trace. Is there a connection to the disappearance Nathanael Drosselmeyer, a toymaker's son, who came to Paris after being diagnosed with brain fever?

Digging deeper, Loveday uncovers a conspiracy within a conspiracy, one with an uncomfortable connection to her own past, but can she unravel the threads in time to prevent Jennie from becoming the next victim?

The Angels of Music, Book Three - Death at Bargain Prices

The Angels of Music - The Hidebrand Rarity

Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the opera...



When an old friend is framed for a murder he did not commit, Loveday Brooke, Jennie Baxter and Laura de Gueran travel to Constantinople to clear his name.

Who is the mysterious Comte de Bleuville?

What is the secret at the heart of the British ambassador's garden?

And who is the patchwork giant that stalks that Grand Bazaar by night?

The answers to the questions will lead Jennie, Laura and Loveday deep beneath the city and to a confrontation with the Lord of Terror himself...



The Angels of Music, Book Two: The Hildebrand Rarity

The Angels of Music - Riding the Lightning

Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the opera…

Jennie Baxter, journalist. Laura de Gueran, explorer. Loveday Brooke, detective. Three special agents in the employ of the mysterious, faceless Erik.

Colonel Sebastian Moran, big game hunter and second most dangerous man in England.

The Fulgarator, a superweapon capable of reducing to its component atoms any construction, person or warship within twelve thousand square yards.

A secret society, plotting to assassinate the crowned heads of Europe.

And all that stands between the world and total war are three little girls who went to the opera...

The Angels of Music, Book One: Riding the Lightning