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Late Victorian London. When James Miller, the most respectable of Scottish businessmen, is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption. Alongside local detective Culley, Catriona’s search for her father’s killer leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly legend of The Darkwater Bride and the power of her deadly kiss. The Darkwater Bride combines the genres of the Victorian mystery thriller with the equally classic Victorian mode of the ghostly tale.

Letty is a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas in the 1880s. The numbing blizzards, the howling sand storms, and the loneliness of the prairie all combine to undo her nerves. But it is the wind itself, a demon personified, that eventually drives her over the brink of madness.

Dorothy Scarborough was an academic and author who had a particular interest in the supernatural. The following collection, first published in 1921, features stories that have a strong comical or satirical focus.

DI Andy Horton is enjoying a sailing trip to France when the call comes in: Sergeant Cantelli's nephew, Johnnie Oslow, has vanished right before the prestigious Cowes Week yacht races on the Isle of Wight. Horton's boss dismisses it - probably just a romantic escapade - until charred remains turn up in an abandoned tunnel. Could it be Johnnie? What begins as a missing person case quickly spirals into a deadly game of cat and mouse. A ruthless killer is on the loose - and he's far from finished.