Books by Maureen Jennings

Set in 1917 during the home front of WWl Toronto, starring an older William Murdoch.

Di Tom Tyler has made a new start in Ludlow, where on the outskirts of town stands a hospital for war victims. When a double murder is discovered in the grounds, Tyler must figure out how it could have occurred, when most of the patients are unable to walk or see. Then he starts receiving letters recounting terrible crimes.

In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted, taken across the border to the US and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, the owner of one of Toronto's livery stables has been found dead. The investigation endangers Murdoch's own life - and reveals how harms committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.

After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher is shocked to discover salacious photographs of the girl in her desk. When Agnes doesn't show up at school the next day, her teacher takes the photographs to the police. Murdoch, furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl, resolves to find the photographer.

Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, and although she keeps quiet about her clients, her contempt and greed leaves them resentful and angry. It comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when she is murdered, but Murdoch isn't sure if he's hunting one murderer - or two.

The Reverend Charles Howard sat in judgement on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now he is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten in his office. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance?

In 1940, England is desperate and fearful. The threat of a German invasion is real. When a young woman is found murdered on a desolate country road, Tom Tyler, a detective inspector, finds himself drawn into an uneasy alliance with one of the Prees Heath internees, a psychiatrist, who is an expert on the criminal mind.