London, 1885. A womans body is discovered on Edgware Road; ten miles away, her head is dredged from the dark, muddy waters of the Thames. Determined to find answers, famed detective William Pinkerton descends into the citys underworld. At the same time, the victims former lover returns to face a grief stricken past. Epic in scope, By Gaslight is a riveting portrait of two men on the brink.
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio fixer, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the producers of The Wizard of Oz is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Craine must make sure the incident passes without scandal and that the deceaseds widow, the beautiful starlet Gale Goodwin, comes through the ordeal with her reputation unscathed.
But against his better instincts, Craine finds himself increasingly drawn to Gale. And when a series of unsavoury truths begin to surface, Craine finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy involving a Chicago crime syndicate, a prostitution racket and a set of stolen pictures that could hold the key to unravelling the mystery.
Not all murder victims are mourned. For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary has made it her mission to protect the women from his nocturnal visits and when Church is murdered with an awl thrust through his right eye, she becomes the chief suspect.
Red Snow is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dark Pines. TWO BODIES One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who's really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man's eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock up on ammunition.
