Inspector Marshall’s murder investigation is hindered by the gypsies. He uncovers historical cases with a similar MO (dead men, naked women dancing on hilltops, missing albinos) and a legend emerges, generations old, of a gypsy gift. He gets caught up in an ancient dance – something the police rulebook never mentioned – and Fenwick’s itinerant January visitors make the road to finding the perpetrator much more interesting. A gripping, cross-genre novel mixing the procedure and deduction of a crime story with the magical elements of fantasy, Journeyman, is a book you will never forget. Shortlisted for The Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger award, this incredible read is inspired by folk music and dance, and interweaves myth and music alongside the dark and disturbing issues of death and violence.

Since her father’s death, Jenny Williams finds solace and a measure of freedom only in the Smith Foundation Library; a place which has an uncanny knack of providing what its visitors most need - maybe even the solution to the murder for Inspector Marshall. The winter solstice is an important day in folk lore, in Jenny’s life and that of Fenwick. The only constant in a suddenly changed world is the library and here both police and suspects begin to congregate, following separate paths through a historical shadow of what the town used to be, a memory of the past. Marshall attempts to solve a crime in a situation that is far beyond anything he has ever imagined; doing his best to be a good policeman in a place where laws have no meaning. Music, myth and magic again interweave with the darkness of a crime novel to provide Marshall with a long night and journey home.