Hiding their father’s insanity after the death of their mother in order to keep their family together, two resourceful adolescents, Matthew and Annie, find their plans thwarted when they discover a body in their backyard.

Studies the thrillers and crime novels of Agatha Christie, analyzing her masterful solutions, strategems of deception, and ability to divert the reader's attention from the matter of real importance and revealing her racial and class ...

Appealing and distasteful characters alike make this another highly entertaining diversion from Barnard.

But the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to Sir Oliver’s wife, a posthumous “last case” that might be worth millions, has disappeared. And Sir Oliver’s death is beginning to look less than natural.

Radio Broadwich decides to do a documentary on the small village of Twytching for international broadcast, and the townspeople divide between those who seek the patronage of Mrs.

Opera singers are often described as being larger than life, and certainly this is true of Gaylene Ffrench.

Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.

Three-time Edgar Award nominee Robert Barnard takes on the cunning and ruthless world of politics in this suspenseful tale centering upon the mysterious death of a member of Parliament.

In the Soho studio of Bodies magazine are found four corpses: a photographer, his assistant, an actress-student and a young bodybuilder.

In A City of Strangers, Barnard creates one of his most memorable characters ever; the dreadful Jack Phelan.