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Under Admiralty Arch

Winter 1953. Robert Lynnford, star crime-reporter of The London Herald, discovers – while investigating the murders of two nightclub croupiers and the fraudulent activities of an investment advisor in the City of London - a dead body with all the hallmarks of an assassination. And first on the scene, Lynnford quickly becomes, for some, himself a suspect.

Meanwhile, Lynnford’s investigations broaden, and a Polish woman who has fled to post-war Britain seeking refuge from communist Poland soon becomes a person of interest for the journalist. Embroiled in murder and the theft of government secrets, she is being tracked down by British and foreign secret security services, and only subterfuge and her wits can keep her alive and safe. Lynnford faces a dilemma: who is she really, and should he try to catch her or help her escape?

Publication: Autumn 2025

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The Sea Breeze

Westcliff is a fictional town situated on the North Devonshire coast. The old families living around the harbour are a close-knit community, steeped in generations of smuggling and religious opposition to the wealthy outsiders living in the town. Gwen Mortimer has returned home to the town to takeover a newsagents shop with her husband, Sam, who was looking for work and a new life after having been demobbed from the Royal Air Force after the War.

Suspicious activities down in the harbour arouse Sam’s curiosity and, when the body of a Dutch sailor is found floating in the sea alongside an empty yacht, with the other members of its crew missing, he scents a scoop for his wartime friend and now crime reporter for The London Herald, Robert Lynnford. A telegram and a telephone call are all it takes, and Lynnford is very quickly on the night train pulling out of Paddington railway station. As soon as he arrives in Westcliff the mystery deepens yet further, and the reporter finds a community in moral crisis, with deception and treachery at the heart of machinations, yet more sinister than he could have ever suspected.

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The Elephant's Sapphire

Straw House Farm, Norfolk, and the 1950 Winter Ball is only weeks away with its prize ornament, the Elephant’s Sapphire, due to be released from the Queen’s Fine Art Museum in London to adorn the ball. But, in the noisy, smoke-filled, and boozy bar of The Golden Fox – a stone’s throw from the offices of The London Herald newspaper and haunt of journalists – a worried museum curator informs Lynnford that the jewel has gone missing. And rather than involve the police in finding it, the curator has asked the newspaper’s owner, a friend of his, to recommend a journalist capable of working discreetly and streetwise. Who else, but Robert Lynnford, the newspaper’s star crime-reporter?

Weighing 410 carats, the Elephant’s Sapphire is not the largest sapphire in the world, but almost! Mounted on a model bronze elephant, the gemstone is a much-coveted historic heirloom from Nepal, held by the museum since the 1880s.

Murder, double-dealing, and betrayal in London’s Docklands and world of fine art surround the Sapphire’s disappearance from the museum. Lynnford must track it down before knowledge of its loss becomes public, and the international reputation of the museum is damaged. But he finds himself in competition with unscrupulous criminals who are also after the jewel, and Lynnford needs all his reporter’s instincts to unlock the enigma of its whereabouts and keep himself alive.

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