A Thomas Potts Historical Mystery

4 primary works

The Drowned Ones

by Sara Fraser

Published 3 November 2009

This is a 'Constable Thomas Potts' historical mystery. It is 1827, and in the town of Redditch in Worcestershire, Thomas Potts is still reluctantly battling to keep the peace, whilst living in penury in the town Lock-Up. Though temporarily spared the grumblings of his demanding mother, away in Birmingham on honeymoon, Thomas is nevertheless depressed at the slow progress of his courtship of Amy Danks: without any money nor prospects, he cannot hope to marry her, and he fears that the lovely Amy will soon look elsewhere. Then the body of a young serving-girl is found drowned in the Tardebigge Canal, and Potts is drawn into the investigation, forced to confront the notorious 'Leggers', town outcasts who work on the barges and who, he suspects, may know something. Tom will risk his own life and reputation several times over before he gets to the bottom of this and subsequent gruesome murders...

Til Death Do Us Part

by Sara Fraser

Published 22 January 2013

The new 'Constable Thomas Potts' historical mystery. "Matrimony. An Officer of the Honourable East India Company is greatly desirous of finding a soul-mate to share his life and fortune". Lonely spinster Phoebe Creswell responds to an advertisement in the Worcester Herald, but are the outwardly charming Major Christophe de Langlois and his companion, the Reverend Geraint Winward, really who and what they seem? Distracted by his own new bride and a spate of dog thefts, will Constable Thomas Potts be able to uncover the truth about the Rev Winward and Major de Langlois in time to save Phoebe from a gruesome fate?

The Devil's Monk

by Sara Fraser

Published 1 August 2015

July, 1829. When a female corpse, dressed in male clothing, is discovered lying in a haystack in the Worcestershire countryside, rumour and superstition abound. For the sighting of a man in white robes fleeing from the scene leads to suspicion that the 'Devil's Monk' is responsible for the crime. According to local legend, this vengeful apparition appears at intervals to molest and kill.

Constable Thomas Potts is dismissive of the rumours - but without knowing the victim's identity, he'll need the devil's own luck to catch her killer. And when a second body turns up, Potts is under pressure to track down the murderer before hysteria engulfs the town.

Devil's Monk

by Sara Fraser

Published 6 April 2015

An intriguing 19th Century historical mystery. July, 1829. When a female corpse, dressed in male clothing, is discovered lying in a haystack in the Worcestershire countryside, rumour and superstition abound. For the sighting of a man in white robes fleeing from the scene leads to suspicion that the 'Devil's Monk' is responsible for the crime. According to local legend, this vengeful apparition appears at intervals to molest and kill. Constable Thomas Potts is dismissive of the rumours - but without knowing the victim's identity, he'll need the devil's own luck to catch her killer. And when a second body turns up, Potts is under pressure to track down the murderer before hysteria engulfs the town.