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Robert Goddard
The second instalment featuring unlikely private investigator Umiko Wada and the Kodaka Detective Agency.
From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible…
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But when an old friend of his late mother says there are things that Nick needs to know about his parents, he can’t ignore it. When a chance encounter brings…
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After her husband’s sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for Paris with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin. But…
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A beloved classic once again available in the U.S. An engaging mystery novel with a literary angle that will make comparisons to A.S. Byatt and P.D. James ( Washington Post…
Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. But in this tale of revenge and redemption, justice…
A group of ex-RAF comrades journey to a Scottish castle for a reunion, but bythe time they reach their destination, two of them are dead. As Harry Barnetttries to solve…
Estranged from his family for most of his adult life, Chris Napier is persuaded to return home for his niece’s wedding. At the reception, he is shocked to recognise a…
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A search for missing documents in an international mining company becomes a voyage into dangerous waters. A dead friend, a lost lover and a clutch of mysteries from Jonathan Kellaway’s…
One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. A few days later, the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady…
Recovering from the tragic death of his wife, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband.Their home is a bizarre moated house deep in the Rutland…
When Harry Barnett is informed that his son has been hospitalized in a diabetic coma, he thinks there must be some mistake: he doesn’t have a son. But Harry soon…
Then a guest at the villa - a young woman he had instantly and innocently warmed to - disappears on a mountain peak. The trail leads him back to England…
When Tim Harding agrees to do a friend a favour by bidding for an antique ring at an auction on his behalf, he is unaware of the secrets tied up…
From an Edgar Award-winning author, a dazzling work of historical derring-do, as World War I flying ace-turned-spy James Maxted confronts a thirty-year-old secret-and a lethal German foe-in Tokyo
Nick’s father is a retired archaeologist who is a supposed descendant of the emperors of Byzantium. When someone puts in a ridiculously high offer for the family’s home in Cornwall…
A Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks original –T.p. verso.
Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure, leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace, reduced to caretaking a friend’s villa on the island of Rhodes. Then a…
In this hugely enjoyable ( The Times ) mystery, a man is caught up in the murder of a woman along the Welsh Border.
A carefully crafted tale, Beyond Recall interweaves present and past as Christian Napier sets out to discover the truth behind his great-uncle’s murder, committed during the days of rationing and…
A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London. Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a…
‘Is this his best yet?…Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting’ Lee Child WHAT REALLY LIES WITHIN? High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion.
And then there are other forces, with still darker intentions, who have their own plans for him. Almost before she knows it, Nicole’s crossed an invisible line into a world…
Originally published: United Kingdom: Transworld, 2014.
When Tim Harding is sent by his employer to buy an antique ring at auction, little does he realize that he is about to restart a chain of events which…
January, 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age - the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker, is…
The arrival of a stranger in William Trenchard’s life threatens to destroy all he holds most dear. The stranger claims to be Sir James Davenall, who was once engaged to…
From the Edgar award-winning, internationally bestselling British writer Robert Goddard comes a captivating new trilogy of historical thrillers, set at the tail end of World War I and featuring the…
Two of the most significant publications in the history of rocketry and jet propulsion: A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes (1919) and Liquid Propellant Rocket Development (1936). 96 black-and-white illustrations.
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For actor Toby Flood, Brighton is the final week of a long tour. She asks Toby, for old times’ sake, to find out what is going on. Alarmingly he discovers…
On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he breaks up with his wife and…
Geoffrey Staddon turned his back on the best things in his life. He turned his back on the beautiful house Clouds Frome, his finest achievement as an architect. He turned…
Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36…
After Hammond saved his life, Gazi’s men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars. Now, in exchange for keeping Hammond’s dirty little secret, Gazi’s family want a…
Some secrets are best kept hidden… Nick Paleologus is summoned to resolve a dispute that threatens to tear his family apart. But soon the stalemate between Nick’s siblings and their…
A chance meting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of the beautiful and wealthy heiress, Diana Charnwood. It’s a trick they’ve pulled before, with some…
It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. William Spandrel, a penniless mapmaker…
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed…
But something has changed her mind - something urgent… Immediately Richard is catapulted into a breathless race against time that takes him from London, across northern Europe and into the…
And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it. Now, enlisted under false colours in Lemmer’s service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret…
In a city where countries are jostling for position at the crossroads of history and the stakes could hardly be higher, it is difficult to tell who is a friend…
Martin is offered a job - to investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that…
Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope.
Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years…
A man sits outside the Red Lion pub, waiting. In one swift movement, the running man grabs the youngest child and carries her away. Still the man outside the pub…
It’s 1882. When the creak of the garden gate one autumn afternoon sounds the arrival of an unexpected stranger William Trenchard is puzzled, but not alarmed. He cannot possibly know…
