Thriller
A Mind of Winter
Oscar Harcourt is an enigmatic English art collector living on an opulent estate on Long Island, six years and thousands…
Floats the Dark Shadow
In 1897, painter and feminist Theodora Faraday has lived for a year in Paris. Encouraged by her poet cousin Averill…
Jack 1939
To be Jack Kennedy, son of the notable Joseph P. Kennedy, is to meet expectations at every turn. At first…
House of the Hunted
In 1919 Petrograd, Tom Nash is a young British agent with a plan to free his Russian girlfriend from prison.…
The House of Rumour
At first sight this is a conspiracy thriller, although more ‘literary’ than most, as one would expect from Sceptre. It…
Waiting for Sunrise
In Boyd’s latest literary adventure (after Ordinary Thunderstorms, 2010), a young English actor begins a life of deception off-stage, mostly…
The White Forest
I almost thought this was going to be “just” a Gothic thriller, but it quickly became so much more—a dark,…
The Candle Man
Few events in recent history hold such a fascination or resonance as the Whitechapel murders in 1888 and the sinking…
Chasing Mona Lisa
Set in France in the summer of 1944, Chasing Mona Lisa follows Swiss OSS agents Gabi Mueller and Eric Hofstadler…
Trapeze
Simon Mawer’s (The Glass Room) latest gift to his avid followers is the first of a projected two-volume novel about…
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