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From bestselling author, Carla Simpson, A Whisper of Crows is a Victorian paranormal mystery about a foundling chasing the truth of her origins, a killing dressed up as an accident, and a hidden gift that someone will murder to bury.

A name, a date, and a secret worth killing for.

Female, age three years. Surrendered to the care of St. Joaquim’s...

Tense and atmospheric, Deadly Sacrifice is a Victorian historical mystery of two investigators, two cases, and a single deadly scheme that draws them both into its center.

Brodie has taken up the position of Director of the newly formed CID—a secret agency tasked with tracking a dangerous foreign terrorist network. Mikaela, meanwhile, takes on...

A dying challenge. A blood‑stained name. A mystery that refuses to stay buried.

London is no stranger to scandal, but when journalist Theodolphus Burke summons author and amateur sleuth Mikaela Forsythe with an urgent note—only to be found bleeding to death outside a pub—the case becomes personal. Burke was no friend to Mikaela; he mocked her...

A Victorian mystery set in Edinburgh’s darkest corners, where a woman with a hidden gift returns to the streets that raised her—and finds murder waiting.

She escaped once. Now she’s come back to uncover the truth. But the past isn’t finished with her yet.

Old Town Edinburgh is a place Lily Montgomery knows too well. She survived the Foundling...

A hunter is stalking London’s streets—and Angus Brodie is his final mark.

A constable found dead on his nightly beat.
A retired chief inspector slain in his own home.
A judge silenced forever in his chambers.

Three murders. One pattern. And one name left on the killer’s list: Brodie.

Forced back into the shadows of London’s criminal underworld,...

Sins of the father...

A chilling message on a note delivered to the Prince of Wales.

A prank, a cruel joke, or a threat against the royal family?

With only that note for a clue, Brodie and Mikaela are asked to find who is behind that message. But there is little to go on, only that note and the mysterious figure who delivered it and then...

For the women in London, the “chance of a lifetime” may prove to be their last.

Hidden among the romantic rendezvous and and secret messages in The Times of London’s Personal Column, a peculiar ad offers one young woman the opportunity of escape: travel, adventure, and a new life—no questions asked, all expenses paid. It seems too good to be...

Ghosts from the past have the nasty habit of refusing to stay buried.

Returning from an extended stay in Scotland, life for Mikaela and Brodie picks up right back where it left off. Brodie is immediately tasked with a new case for the Agency, while Mikaela must attend a reception for the release of her latest novel. But, as it always does,...

A promise made, a love stronger than even death itself... It began like a dream that slowly washes over the senses, teasing, promising with half-formed images. The cool shadows of Ombre Rose surrounded her and she felt herself drifting. All about she heard the murmur of the leaves, the sigh of the breeze through the overgrown vines and...

A priceless piece of artwork lost in World War II.
A car accident that is no accident.
And a bloodstained photograph that could expose not only a billion-dollar smuggling operation, but its links to terrorism and the entire world of cybercrime.

Connecting all of these disparate threads is the death of bestselling author and war correspondent...

Murder, betrayal, revenge... and two people bound together across oceans, and time.

She has had the dreams since she was a small child, her parents killed in a shipwreck in the treacherous waters off the coast of Cornwall. The dreams are from another time and place, and a man who waits in shadows. They are an elusive memory that leave her with...

The British Museum gets one more corpse than they bargained for as doors open for their new Egyptian exhibit.

Excitement is palpable among London Society as the opening of the exhibit draws near. An invitation-only affair, it will be attended by the likes of the Queen, foreign dignitaries, and high-placed people in society, which most certainly...

The horrible murder of a young woman once strikes fear into the hearts of women across London…

An anguished young man’s plea for help to find the one responsible for his fiance’s death…

A young girl drawn into the murder who may become the next victim…

There are no answers. There is only that red rose, left on the young woman’s body, and the...

Murder is such a nasty business…

Mikaela Forsythe has returned from safari in Africa with her great aunt, and Lily.

The continent survived, but not so the victim in a new murder investigation that she is asked to undertake – that agreement she made with Sir Avery of the Special Services Agency to save Brodie’s life.

A particularly sensitive case,...

Ghosts of the past…

An old case that resulted in Brodie leaving the Metropolitan Police, under circumstances he’s never spoken about, returns to jeopardize not only his private inquiry business, but his relationship with Mikaela Forsythe, and perhaps his life.

Ten years earlier, he refused to divulge the name of a source in a murder case and...

A priceless piece of artwork that disappeared during World War II. Years later, a car accident in the French countryside that is no accident. A blood-stained photograph that exposes the world of cyber crime and a billion dollar smuggling operation that finances terrorism.

That automobile accident in the French countryside claimed the life of...

Mikaela takes on a case alone when Brodie is pulled into a new investigation for Sir Avery and the Agency. Her inquiry services are requested by the wife of a prominent London surgeon after he has disappeared, while Brodie is sent to track down rumors of a planned attack in London by the anarchist known as the Black Hand.

It is a time of...

A photograph taken of the daughter of one of London’s most prominent citizens in a private setting sets Brodie and Mikaela off on a new inquiry case to find out who took the photograph and then sent it to the family.

The case begins simply enough until the young woman goes missing. Then, the family receives another photograph of their daughter...

A THIRTY YEAR OLD MURDER...
Old Town, Edinburgh, in a squalid tenement where poverty, rats, and disease are rampant, a young woman who worked in a local tavern lies dying. Just another number and bound for a pauper’s grave in Greyfriar’s kirkyard

A BOY FOUND STANDING IN HIS MOTHER’S BLOOD...
Alone, his grandmother the only family left, young...

What is real or only an illusion?

Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects that levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant who disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance.

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