Alanna Knight: 16 books

August, 1811. The latest mistress of George, Prince of Wales, has been murdered in the royal bedchamber, and – more worryingly for the Prince – the historic jewel the Stuart Sapphire has gone missing. The newly created prince Regent knows that rumours of a sordid scandal must be avoided at all...

‘MASTER OF CRIME’ THE TIMES For Rose McQuinn, the invitation to holiday at a luxury hotel on the Isle of Bute is an unexpected delight, until she discovers the real reason is to investigate a not-proven murder case from twenty years ago. With close links to a local family of ancient origin...

Constable Faro is heading home to Orkney, pursuing a private investigation into the mysterious drowning of an ex-colleague’s relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon. Was this an accident or does Claydon’s death have a sinister connection with missing artefacts recovered from the Armada galleon sunk...

When the body of an unknown woman is found in an Edinburgh close, Detective Constable Faro assumes the killing is a random act of violence – until he finds a playing card, the nine of diamonds, underneath her corpse. His superiors scoff at his suspicions of a serial killer, but days later a man is...

It is 1897 and three years have passed since Rose McQuinn’s husband, Danny, disappeared in Arizona. Believing him to be dead, she returned to Scotland to start her life afresh. She has now fulfilled her ambition of becoming a ‘Lady Investigator, Discretion Guaranteed’ and is about to marry her...

Autumn, 1897. Rose McQuinn has lost the love of her ambitious fiancé, Jack Macmerry, and now it seems she is to lose her elusive deerhound as well. Hubert Staines claims his fatally ill stepdaughter is Thane’s rightful owner, and Rose cannot refuse to return him. But when she arrives at the family...

Every memory holds forbidden places, places of shame or terror not willingly revisited, sometimes merely a cruel word said in haste and never forgotten, a mean or thoughtless action, but sometimes that memory is a monster, foul murder left untried. The year is 1860 and Inspector Faro has been...

When the circus arrives in Edinburgh, Rose McQuinn is delighted. However, the much anticipated festivities are overshadowed by a curious set of crimes, involving the murder of a clerk during a bank robbery and, within hours of each other, the identical suicides of two young women. Are these deaths...

The year is 1864 and Detective Inspector Faro's idyllic life has been shattered by the escape of convicted murderer John McLaw. With countless dead end sightings of the killer and further criminal activity Faro realises that this case is far more complicated than he had first assumed. When the disappearance...

Rose McQuinn has agreed to help her neighbour, Mrs Lawers, by delivering a family legacy to her only living relative. But Rose’s philanthropic journey takes a turn towards the dangerous when she is attacked on board a train. On returning to Edinburgh she finds that further sinister events have occurred...

Newly retired Inspector Faro is delighted at the prospect of staying in the Dower House in York, sited on a Roman villa once home to Emperor Severus. His wife, Imogen, travels ahead of him, looking forward to exploring the wonders of the historic city. A chance encounter with a young woman at a florist’s...

Rose McQuinn is invited to stay with her friend Olive who has a small cottage on the Balmoral Estate. As Rose travels on the train with her trusty dog Vane and her niece Mabel, she wonders what exciting adventures await them at the Royal household. Little does she realise that within just 48 hours...

July 1660, Falkland Palace, Fife. After rescuing King James the Sixth from a runaway horse, Tam Eildor finds himself in favour. As the King's new object of affection Tam has become the target for jealous courtiers - and their attentions are seriously hampering his investigation into the murder of...

‘MASTER OF CRIME’ THE TIMES The Faro family gather in Orkney to support grieving widow Emily, but their attention is caught by strange activity aboard the royal yacht anchored nearby. When a body is washed ashore, neither Faro nor his daughter Rose McQuinn can resist the mystery unravelling...