Allison & Busby
The Last Roman: Vengeance
This is the first novel in a projected trilogy, and it starts with a bang. Flavius Belisarius is in the…
Daughter of Catalonia
The publicity blurb for this book likens it to a Victoria Hislop novel, and the comparison is just, if what…
A Ticket to Oblivion
1858. Inspector Colbeck’s latest case involves the disappearance of a young lady, Imogen Burnhope, and her maid, travelling on a…
A Plague of Sinners
The hot and plague-haunted summer of 1665 is a very bad time to be in London, but Harry Lytle, former…
The Venetian Venture
Rosy Gilchrist is in Venice, authorised to offer twenty guineas on behalf of the British Museum for a specific signed…
Kingdom Lock
In 1914 it is recognised that future wars will be won or lost by black gold; keeping the oil pipelines…
Prince of Shadows
Did you ever wonder, when reading Romeo and Juliet, about the staid, reasonable, slightly dull Benvolio? If you did, in…
The French Promise
Having read The Lavender Keeper, the first in this series, I was interested to follow the developments in the story…
Bayonets Across the Border
The tribes are gathering, putting aside intertribal feuding to take on a worthier foe, the British Empire at the peak…
A Little Murder
Editors' choice
Marcia Beasley is found shot through the head at her home in St Johns Wood, London, wearing nothing but a…
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