Judith Cutler crea sus novelas con el vibrante telón de fondo de las Midlands, una región que conoce íntimamente. Autora galardonada de cuentos cortos, aportó su amplia experiencia como profesora de inglés a la enseñanza de escritura creativa en la universidad. Su compromiso con el mundo literario se extiende a la dirección de cursos de escritura y a la colaboración con organizaciones de autores de novela negra.
Unruly guests are the least of Harriet and Matthew Rowsley's concerns when an accident turns out to be brutal murder at Thorncroft House. With a house full of suspects, the sleuthing duo has to find out who is behind this and why. Harriet has her own theory and decides to follow her hunch. After all, every aspect should be considered, just in case!
May 1861, Victorian England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves stranded at a house party at Clunston Park due to flooding when shockingly, one of the guests is murdered! The finger is pointed at Clara, an eleven-year- old maid, and convinced she cannot be the culprit, Harriet and Matthew agree to investigate!
On a freezing winter's night, an unexpected visitor arrives at Thorncroft House. Tensions soon arise as the household is trapped indoors by the snow, escalating when the dead body of a young housemaid is discovered, and housekeeper Harriet Rowsley and her husband Matthew must consider that they may be harbouring a murderer in their midst . . .
Land agent Matthew Rowsley and his capable wife Harriet are part of a group of trustees assigned to manage Thorncroft House - until matters take a disturbing turn when Lord Croft's long-lost cousin and heir, Julius Trescothick, arrives, ready to claim his inheritance. But is he who he claims to be . and what are his true intentions?
Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft, Matthew Rowsley is distracted from his tasks on the country estate by the disappearance of a housemaid, and teams up with housekeeper Mrs Faulkner to get to the bottom of the matter. Something rotten is going on at Thorncroft - and it's up to Matthew and Mrs Faulkner to unearth the truth.
When city career woman Jodie Welsh marries Reverend Theo Welsh and moves to the country village of Lesser Hogben, she encounters hostility from locals and the mysterious disappearance of a local boy she had hired to work in her garden.
Head teacher Jane Cowan is a victim of her own success and is expected to bring other schools up to scratch. Jane can't turn a blind eye when some of the poorer new students disappear. When everything points to people smugglers in the area, she has her work cut out seeing justice done. And that's before a threat far closer to home rears his head.
With her abusive ex-husband in prison, Jane Cowan finally has the confidence to accept a new job: head teacher of the primary school in the Kentish village of Wrayford. But her new life is soon disrupted when a mysterious intruder breaks into her school, and then later when a child is badly hurt in the playground - only Jane suspects that her fall was not an accident. After another child suffers life-threatening injuries, Jane must become the pursuer and not the prey if she is to protect the pupils in her charge. However, when the children and teachers alike begin to act suspiciously, and Jane finds that she herself is a target, the fears and doubts that she thought were behind her begin to resurface...
A delayed retirement, sexual assaults and a media frenzy have Superintendent Harman seeking to resolve this on-going nightmare
A Mystery
Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Her new Brummie bosses are good men, for the most part, but they can't seem to let their new female colleague alone long enough to get on with her job. Kate is anxious to lose herself in her work, and before too long a case comes along that will consume her in a way she could never have imagined.Young boys are being abducted, abused, and murdered on her patch, and she feels intense personal and professional pressure to catch those responsible. Kate must navigate the unfamiliar channels of power in male-dominated Birmingham; are her colleagues being deliberately obstructive or simply dragging their feet? Soon she is forced to make an important Should she follow the conventional line of enquiry, toe the company line, and work as part of the team, or should she strike out on her own, reputation be damned?Kate's got her work cut out for her, but she's a tough young cop who's seen a lot in her brief career and no one, not a heavy-handed supervisor or a vicious killer, is going to stop her from surviving, and thriving, in Birmingham. Power on Her Own is a taut, gritty cop novel from talented crime writer Judith Cutler.