On a bright spring morning John Hyde opens the gates to the grounds of Moreton Corbet Castle a local..

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1929. On receipt of an unexpected inheritance small-time crook Horace Butterfield buys a large house..

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Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman’s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into a..

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

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In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..