Books by M.R.C. Kasasian

The Ghost Tree

Inspector Betty Church must mobilise the incompetent police she leads to investigate the disappearance of her childhood best friend and to battle several forms of discrimination as she follows a trail of murder.

Reviewed on 13 March 2021 by John Cleal

The Room of the Dead

Inspector Betty Church finds wartime life in her sleepy hometown of Sackwater hard to bear until a bombing raid and the discovery of a body on the beach put her on the trail of a killer.

Reviewed on 18 January 2020 by John Cleal

Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire

Partly disabled Met sergeant Betty Church avoids being invalided out when her godmother March Middleton arranges a transfer to the Suffolk force. She returns to the town where she grew up to find a police station in chaos and a murderer dubbed the Suffolk Vampire on the loose.

Reviewed on 27 October 2018 by John Cleal

Dark Dawn Over Steep House

After the daughter of a respected naval captain, is ‘outraged’ on the dirty and dangerous streets of Limehouse and her attacker vanishes, a chance encounter in a cafe brings a new victim to light, and sets March and Grice on the trail of a serial offender.

Reviewed on 02 September 2017 by John Cleal

The Secrets of Gaslight Lane

‘Personal’ detective Sidney Grice and his ward March Middleton struggle to unravel the mystery of two killings of members of the same family in the same house, but ten years apart.

Reviewed on 29 October 2016 by John Cleal

Death Descends on Saturn Villa

March Middleton is invited to meet her only living relative, a previously unknown uncle. She wakes the following morning to find her uncle dead and a bloody axe in her hand.

Reviewed on 12 March 2016 by John Cleal