The Raven and the Pipe

Durham. Winter 1914. Following shattering news of his father’s death, naïve Oxbridge scholar Edmund Bullick returns to a wall of silence only exacerbated by the shocking revelations of Lord Cavendish, his father’s employer.


In his quest for answers, Edmund blunders into a web of deceit and treachery until the appalling path to the truth unexpectedly opens up before him. Has he the mettle to take it? If discovered he faces certain ruin but to do nothing would mean a life of never knowing.

Even as he struggles with his conscience, Edmund is goaded by the bewitching, sexually hypnotic Lady Victoria until driven half mad with frustration and desire, he employs a desperate strategy to try and win her over. 

The Raven and the Pipe follows Edmund's ordeal as he frantically searches for answers and, ultimately, the truth about his heritage. It is a tale of love, greed and addiction set against a background of corruption in the legal profession, the sum captured in a haunting narrative that is every bit as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago...