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Blind Eye
Is this the 14th tale about Marilyn Todd’s wonderfully bitchy and feisty detective Claudia? No, this is the first tale…
Death and the Devil
Set against the backdrop of the building of one of the world’s largest cathedrals and the power struggles between the…
Daughter of the Sun
In pre-Columbian New Mexico, Hoshi’tiwa, a 17-year-old young woman, is a gifted potter of rain jars. The daughter of a…
The Dragon’s Tail
Harry Airton is recruited by British Intelligence to become a double agent, working against the Chinese government. In the early…
The Kingdom of Bones
Tom Sayers, a former boxer and a member of a British theater troupe, is accused of the serial murders of…
Killing Che
Editors' choice
Bolivia, 1967: Paul Hoyle, an ex-CIA paramilitary with experience in Laos, Vietnam and various Latin American hot spots, is now…
The Terror
Editors' choice
In 1845, two ships of the Royal Navy, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, led by Sir John Franklin,…
Valley Forge: A Novel of the American Revolution
British Army Captain Jamie Skoyles marches on in author David Garland’s successor novel to Saratoga. Captain Skoyles had been taken…
Never Say Goodbye
Diana Escott-Stevens, known as Steve, has worked for twelve months preparing agents for missions in France. Then Steve herself applies…
Wolf’s Temptation
It is 1776 and Ethan Gray, a spymaster called the Wolf, is on the hunt for a smuggler shipping arms…
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