Rod Duncan Books in Order

A mixed-race community relations officer faces a crime that threatens her life amid a riot in Leicester. Her account explores the tensions between police and residents, racism, and competing views of the city's multicultural communities.

After looting an electronics shop during a riot, unemployed Daz Croxley finds stolen banknotes linked to property fraud. Criminals and police pursue information he lacks, forcing him to bluff his way through threats to himself and friends.

Superintendent Frank Shakespeare receives a photograph that threatens to expose his past and destroy his career and marriage. Meanwhile, Tami Steel emerges from fourteen years in prison for a crime she insists she did not commit.

Stage psychic Harry Gysel predicts that a woman in his audience will die, and a murder follows. Chief Inspector Morgan must determine whether the performer’s apparent powers hide a more ordinary explanation for an unsettling crime.

Elizabeth Barnabus disguises herself as her own brother to work as a private detective in an alternate England. A missing aristocrat and mysterious machines lead her toward a travelling circus and the powerful International Patent Office.

Elizabeth Barnabus hopes to abandon her dangerous detective work, but a respectable new charity arouses her suspicions. Investigating under her invented brother's identity draws her into body-snatching, forbidden experiments, and the politics of a divided England.

A former circus enemy persuades Elizabeth Barnabus to steal secrets from the International Patent Office in London. Her planned heist pits her skills as an illusionist against government agents, a duke's army, and a mysterious custodian.

When airships vanish over the Atlantic, the International Patent Office sends Elizabeth Barnabus to investigate beyond its jurisdiction. Disguised as a man, she searches for a floating pirate nation that threatens the empire's control of technology.

On Newfoundland's Island of the Free, tattooed oaths govern clans that reject kingship. Returning exile Elias seeks revenge and restoration, but needs help from Elizabeth Barnabus, a mysterious castaway whose arrival complicates the island's fragile order.

Wanted for mutiny and murder, Elizabeth Barnabus flees across America while searching for her lost family. In Oregon Territory, she encounters a gathering army, an ambitious king, and a weapon that threatens the Gas-Lit Empire.