Sheila Radley

• Jan-2024
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Estella wakes and finds herself looking up at the night sky and realises after a few minutes that she is lying on damp grass. She slowly recovers and sits up to find she is sitting in a field looking at Stonehenge. Her horse and c...

• Mar-1998
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In Tudor England, in the year 1530, Henry VIII's desire to marry Anne Boleyn is frustrated by the Pope's unwillingness to grant him a divorce from his first Queen. The church is still the strongest power in the land, and the wealthiest. In Norfolk, t...

• 1994
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The Chalcot estate, a piece of leafy, traditional England hidden away behind high creeper-covered walls, was caught in a time warp.

Once again, as every year in late autumn, the killing season was about to begin. The predestined victims, hundr...

• Jul-1992
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When an elderly couple disappears only one week after the husband signed for his pension, Inspector Quantril begins his investigation but finds it hampered by misleading information from well-meaning townfolk....

• Nov-1989
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• Jan-1988
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• Apr-1986
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THE STOLEN BRIDE This was to be Sandra Websdell's wedding day, but she's missing. Her mother assumes Sandra has had a change of heart. But then a treasured garden statue is held for ransom and returned smashed beyond repair. A hush of fear steals ...

• May-1985
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• Sep-1982
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• Nov-1980
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They make an oddly effective team -- Inspector Douglas Quantrill, the old-fashioned country copper; and his deputy, Martin Tait, stuffed with the latest in policing theories and techniques, and with a sharp eye for both the ladies and the main chance...

• 1978
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It's a glorious spring morning in the village of Ashthorpe. Birds are singing, and sunlight is dancing on the river, where Mry Gedge's dress drifts lazily in the shallows and flowers mingle in her hair. The scene is so altogether lovely that some loc...

In a copse near a busy Suffolk road, a body has been found neatly parcelled in plastic. And headless. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill and his team have been working on the case for two months without a single lead. Sharing Quantrill's off...