Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe Murder Mysteries

London 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.

She’s an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in, ahem... a very unusual place.

He’s a former member of the Metropolitan Police, now a private investigator, who grew up on the...

A severed foot. Fingerprints left on a wine glass. A secret cypher code. The scent of orange and cinnamon left behind by the murderer.

Mikaela Forsythe, adventuress, author, and now private investigator, is back, pulled into a deadly case that may just see her friend, actress Theodora Templeton, sent to prison for murder when that severed foot is...

London, 1890:
It’s a New Year, but murder never takes a holiday.

The past reaches out to the unlikely investigative team of Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe when a man she was once engaged to marry seeks her assistance to find his young runaway son.

However, a simple case of following the clues left behind becomes far more as the search unravels...

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.

Is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...