The Missing Hour Michelle Magorian Puffin YFT|YFA|YFN Hardback 2021

The Missing Hour Michelle Magorian Puffin YFT|YFA|YFN Hardback 2021Witnesses, CCTV, even DNA. All the evidence is there. Your husband is a murderer. Or is he? Everything points to his guilt except the fact that he was with you. Four hundred miles away. Apart from one single hour. Imagine a world where the guilty always get punished, where there's an almost perfect conviction rate: a flawless justice system. You had an unshakeable faith in it. Right up until they took him away. The system was built to protect people

In May 2013

in the Visual Propaganda Division

has returned to find his daughter who was kidnapped before he went into hiding

a body washing up in the fens is the spark that connects beautifully rendered characters - and brings crimes past and present to the surface

beneath the beauty and the legend

but when she hears Rosa's desperate voice at the other end of the phone

some serious criminal ambition

Lord Peter Wimsey investigates

Two unusual criminals get caught up in the dark and magical underworld of alchemy in the 16th century

brain-teasers

Which is why

The peculiar death of an assistant matron at a distinguished boys' school draws amateur sleuth Primrose Oughterard into another quirky mystery