Movie set designer Remy Lane trades in Hollywood's phony film industry for the weathered ruins of England, unearthing stolen antiquities hidden beneath homicide.
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Historian Remy Lane has built a career designing era-specific sets for period piece films. Intriguing work, but impermanent by nature. There's just not much history to be found in Hollywood's artificial undertakings. She grows desperate for an enriching connection to the past when her estranged mother dies - an archeologist who left her baby behind to pursue a career abroad.
Remy travels to England seeking a second chance in life. She treks the length of Hadrian's Wall passing through Roman and Celtic ruins scattered across the landscape while chasing after her mother's spirit. Stopping in a coastal village, she embraces a new lifestyle and fresh purpose. The once lonely expat finds nurturing friendship and unexpected romance in the remote setting. Cradled by resplendent pastures and the shushing waves of the Irish Sea, Remy learns that fellowship and murder can go hand-in-hand. Violent crime swirls around the illegal trade of historical relics. Theft from archeological digs, museum pilfering, and smuggling rings bring precious cultural artifacts to collectors far from their homeland. With a keen eye for historical details, Remy Lane strives to unravel heritage crimes alongside Inspector William Tremaine when murder accompanies antiquities in the black market trade on the shores of northern England. |
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The Stars Prevail pivots around the murder of an astronomer beneath the dark skies of the Anglo-Scottish borderlands. Amateur American sleuth Remy Lane, a vested detective inspector, and a cast of curious residents take us on a coastal tour—past the Solway Firth, along Hadrian’s Wall, and down the twisted lanes of their village—that somehow lands us among smugglers of illicit antiquities.
The Tide Turns expands upon the villagers' relationships when one of their own is murdered on a nearby island. The victim was an impoverished college student whose death is followed by a series of break-ins. What does the killer seek in the library burglaries?
The Sacred Stones links modern day crime to cultural antiquities collected by 19th century missionaries that were housed in seminary museums. While the number of seminarians has dwindled over time, the value of the illicit antiquities has only increased. Are they now worth killing for?
The Nighthawk's Nemesis ties the murder of a retired ornithology professor to his discovery of rare gold coins minted during Rome's invasion of northern England in 50 AD. One of the gold staters is missing. So is his housekeeper. And who is lugging a metal detector across the nature reserve at night in search of a greater horde?