Alys Clare píše historické detektivky, které se odehrávají v malebné anglické krajině, jež autorka dobře zná. Její tvorba čerpá z lásky k historii a archeologii, přičemž pečlivě zkoumá prostředí i ducha doby. Autorka se zaměřuje na detaily minulosti, aby vytvořila poutavé příběhy, které čtenáře vtáhnou do tajemného světa.
Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to connect the dots between a desperate woman who tried to kill herself, a dead man in a drainage ditch with nutmegs in his mouth and a nightly intruder in this historical mystery. Can Gabriel protect himself and the ones that are close to him or will he perish in a bigger plot that leaves bodies behind?
1604.Gabriel Taverner is surprised to receive an urgent summons from his old naval captain, who believes his ship is haunted by an evil spirit. Dismissive of the crew's talk of blue-skinned ghosts, Gabriel is convinced there must be a rational explanation behind the mass hallucinations. But matters take a disturbing turn when a body is discovered...
July, 1100. After seven years away, Lassair is finally going home. Before she can reunite with her loved ones, however, she has a promise to keep. Old flame - and king's spy - Rollo left her a chest before he died, and it's time to collect it. But to her dismay, Lassair's soon caught up in a web of intrigue and danger she may never escape from .
October, 1093. At her mentor's urgent request, Lassair is accompanying Gurdyman across the sea to Spain. But why is he insistent on embarking on this difficult and dangerous journey just as winter approaches? And why does he seem so afraid? As the pair reach the remote mountainous regions of northern Spain, Lassair will be tested as never before.
Introducing Dr Gabriel Taverner in the first of a gripping series of British mysteries set in early 17th century Devon
London, April 1882. Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to journey to France to solve a mystery man's murder at an asylum. But the case takes an unexpected turn when they discover that the accused culprit has escaped. Soon the intrepid investigators are in over their heads with much greater and unexpected powers at play!
October, 1604. When a member of Shakespeare's theatre troupe collapses in Plymouth, after performing a violent supernatural play to a packed audience, physician-sleuth Gabriel Taverner finds himself caught in a waking nightmare. For the dying man has either brought plague with him from London - or something even worse .
London, August 1881. Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have cause to celebrate: business is thriving. Lily privately wishes for a case that doesn't involve the tangled love affairs of the upper classes - but soon regrets it when two puzzling, seemingly impossible cases arrive: a missing Jewish child, and a horrible murder ...
A man from London has taken over the tavern on the main London to Hastings highway to the south of Tonbridge. He is not what he appears, and his arrival ushers in a sequence of apparently unrelated but disturbing events, whose escalating violence culminates in murder.
When the body of a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey is found with her throat cut, Josse d'Acquin, the king's knight, arrives from France to investigate. With the help of the worldly Abbess Helewise, Josse discovers lust, greed, and anger flowing closer to the Abbey, and in the haunted Weald of Kent, whose woods hide strange secrets. HC> St. Martin's Press.
