Lord Trowbridge, a British government official, asks Jane Austen to go to Netley Lodge to smoke out a spy for Napoleon. During the course of her investigations, a shipwright will be murdered and Jane will herself be in danger.

In Prohibition-era Cincinnati, a famous bootlegger murders his equally famous wife--a gorgeous woman known as the Jazz Bird--and then turns himself in. Prosecutor Charlie Taft sets about unravelling the story of the dangerous love triangle that led to the killing.

JESUS IN EGYPT recounts the story of the Holy Family's years in Egypt after being banished from the Holy Land by King Herod. The author traces their passage, a journey which he himself took as preparation for writing this book. He interviews clerics and Christian scholars, and presents sections of the ancient texts that helped him to reconstruct the route the Holy Family took through Egypt.