Mark Gatiss
The Vesuvius Club

Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde: portrait painter, wit, dandy and rake. But Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, and when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse to the seediest stews of Naples, in search of a secret society; one which may hold the fate of the world in its hands - the Vesuvius Club.

Janet Gleeson
The Serpent In The Garden

1795. Renowned artist Joshua Pope accepts a commission to paint a wedding portrait of Herbert Bentnick and his betrothed Sabine Mercier at Bentnick's country house in Astley. Sabine stumbles across the body of a man and, puzzled by the lack of concern about this bizarre death, Joshua feels duty-bound to investigate. Why do Bentnick's children regard their future stepmother with suspicion and fear? And is there a connection between Sabine's own daughter and the deceased?

Hettie is an orphan, taken in by Ellie Pride and her husband to their Preston home. But she has never felt she truly belonged. Hettie has a special gift - a beautiful singing voice - and, on the cusp of womanhood, she makes a choice that will alter the course of her life. Amid the bright lights of Liverpool, she will follow her dreams. But once there, the only way to survive is working in the kitchens of a restaurant. Until, by chance, she is heard singing by the owner.