lancashire (england)

American adventurer Jonathan Blair enters the grim world of coal mining in nineteenth-century England in an attempt to find a missing cleric who was engaged to marry the daughter of Blair's sponsor, the wealthy Bishop Hannay.

An old friend's death sends Ruth to Lancaster to investigate an important archeological discovery, but what she finds is a mystery that may have gotten her friend murdered.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the death of vicar and the mysterious woman who met him on the night he died.

The author describes growing up in a mill town in northern England where Jews lived on one side of the street and Christians lived on the other side.

The author describes growing up in a mill town in northern England where Jews lived on one side of the street and Christians lived on the other side.