Alex Binney: 15 books

For Chief Inspector William Lamb and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Clive Halpen of the Murder Squad, Scotland Yard, it began when they were called in to investigate the murder of a girl student in her London flat. Soon, the body count was rising, but was there a serial killer on the loose or were...

The girls at St. Bridget’s School for Young Ladies are not really bad. Hyperactive? Definitely. Mischievous? Undoubtedly. In need of control? Without a doubt. And perhaps some of them are more than a little wicked, irresponsible, immature, foolhardy…But the school, a former convent now...

Bloody murders at Holcombe Manor in 1885 leave the police baffled. The entire family, except one young man, Horatio Henderson, who has disappeared, has been killed. Perhaps Horatio is the culprit? Except that he has no motive. And that’s the problem: there seems to be no motive for anyone to have...

When world-famous magician Edward Isaacs disappears and a suicide note is found near a beach, many assume it is some sort of publicity stunt. That all changes when a body is washed up, identified as the missing magician by a unique tattoo and dental records. But did he really commit suicide, or was...

Jealous lovers, a crooked solicitor, trouble with gypsies, illegal liquor, feuds between farmers, unrequited love and more, but did any of it lead to the murder of the beautiful young woman at midnight in a Cornish lane? More importantly, as the identity of the murderer seemed obvious, too obvious,...

A tale of the wild west, of gunfighters, of bounty hunters, of satanic forces, of the fight between good and evil – and maybe, just maybe, of the Second Coming.Nevada 1869, only four years after the American Civil War had ended, the rule of law was still so often replaced by the rule of the...

The Metropolitan Police is in crisis. A senior officer of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad has been shot dead by one of his own men, and it seems that the police are no closer to solving the grisly murders of prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London. Is the murderer trying to emulate Jack the Ripper?...

A string of murders in 1883 are somehow linked to another string of murders in 1908. In each case it seemed that the police had solved the mystery, and yet there were loose ends that were never resolved. When yet another string of murders in 1933 stretches the deductive powers of Scotland Yard’s...

When a young woman is found murdered in a sleepy Dorset village, the local police launch their investigations. At the same time, a reclusive millionaire living nearby dies of natural causes, leaving all his wealth to charity and a list of local vicars to his bemused godson.Soon, the vicars...

Scotland Yard’s murder squad are called in to investigate the killings of three farm workers when the enquiries by the Devon police reach a dead end, but they soon have more murders and a kidnapping on their hands. It seems that all the crimes may be connected, but is there a serial killer...

“It wasn’t me,” protested Jason Handel, not for the first time but never so desperately as he protested now. Acquitted of Mary Matthews’ murder at his trial at the Old Bailey, it appeared that at least one member of Mary’s family did not believe him and was determined to take revenge, with...

Born on All Fools’ Day 1865, Edith Gwendolyn Barrington grew into a beautiful woman, and yet she was haughty and unapproachable. She seemed to have little interest in men until, suddenly, everything changed. Three husbands in three years all died suddenly. Surely no woman could be so unlucky? The...

Do ghosts exist? And can they commit murder?In telephone call to New Scotland Yard, a man calling himself Julian Kane claimed responsibility for the serial killings of a High Court Judge and a stockbroker and his wife, whose deaths the police were currently investigating.The problem,...

Marcus Hallum found both when he died prematurely, but neither was expecting him. Clearly, someone had made a mistake and no one was yet ready for Marcus to shuffle off the mortal coil… and neither Heaven nor Hell was prepared to take the chance of accepting someone for all eternity who had not...