Robert Barnard

Barnard, Robert

The Cherry Blossom Corpse

When Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan accompanied his sister Christobel to the Romantic Novelists' Association meeting in Bergen, Norway, he hardly expects that the main item on the agenda will be murderedRead more

Death In A Cold Climate

It was midday on December 21st in the city of Tromsø when the boy was last seen - a tall, blond boy swathed in anorak and scarf against the Arctic noon. After that he wasn't seen again, not until three months later, when Professor Mackenzie's dog started sniffing around in the snow and...Read more

A City Of Strangers

For years the infamous Phelans, known with equal horror to the Social Security office and the local school, have lived in slovenly squalor in their council house in the run-down Belfield Grove Estate in the northern English city of Sleate.

The Phelans' infamy has even...Read more

Death and the Chaste Apprentice

An innkeeper is the object of universal dislike--and one murderer's weapon--on the set of a provincial festival production of a tepid Jacobean comedyRead more