Meet Helen Oddfellow: ‘a literary sleuth who stays with you long after the last page.’
A thirty-something London walking tour guide and literary scholar, Helen sometimes longs for a quiet life of reading, walking and writing. But she can’t resist a mystery, whether it’s a rumour of a hidden manuscript from the age of Shakespeare, or something troubling about her new students.
Assisted by street-smart young journalist Nick Wilson and her elderly crossword-fiend neighbour Crispin Day, Helen seeks out clues from archives, cracks historical codes, unearths dangerous secrets and battles those who do not share her regard for the truth.