For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

An Anglo-Saxon deputation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules from Rome. The Abbot o..

Summer AD 670. An Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the coast of Bro Waroch. Mu..

Ireland AD 670. When the body of a murdered young noble is discovered not far from Cashel the King c..

'The dead always whisper to us. It is our task to listen to the whispers of the dead.' Fidelma of Ca..

Cornwall 1902. Edith Fairchild deserted by her feckless husband Benedict eight years before has esta..

Cornwall 1914. Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband Benedict deserted her when their children ..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

Thea Osborne agrees to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair in her new home in North..