Helen Bradbury

A home invasion irrevocably changes the lives of all involved in ways neither victims nor perpetrator could have imagined (primewire)

Whicher is engaged by Sir Henry Coverley, who suspects his wife Jane of infidelity and his sleuthing leads to his talking to the Coverley groom Josh and his wife Ruth, the village post mistress. Eventually he seeks out Jane's lover Matthew Thorogood, who insists that he genuinely loves her. However he is nowhere to be seen when the divorce case comes to court and he is later found dead. (imdb)

In the early days of criminal investigation, before guilt and innocence were determined by forensic science, there was a detective, "a man of mystery", with an uncanny ability to read the human character and an unswerving instinct for the truth. In Victorian England, justice depended on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. (amazon.com)

A young boy struggles to fit into the life of a post-war English village after witnessing the death of his mother. (imdb)