Harvill Secker
The Fisherman’s Gift
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Scotland, 1900, and a severe winter storm is brewing and rolling into the small seaside village of Skerry. The next morning Joseph, a solitary ...Read Review
Perspectives (UK) / Perspective(s) (US)
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Florence, 1557: the murdered body of the Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo is found in the chancel of the Medici church of San Lorenzo, below ...Read Review
Perspective(s) (US) / Perspectives (UK)
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An unusual epistolary novel, Perspective(s) is a murder mystery and historical romp set in late 16th-century Florence. In the preface, a 19th-century ...Read Review
The House with Nine Locks
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Ghent, Belgium, in the early 1950s. Adelais de Wolf is a teenaged girl from a rather troubled Flemish family, with her parents’ secrets ...Read Review
Nephthys (UK) / The House of Two Sisters (US/CAN)
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Victorian England, when Egyptomania and mummy unwrapping parties were at their height, and Dr Clement Attridge is at the centre – hosting such parties ...Read Review
The Ghosts Of Rome (Rome Escape Line, 2)
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This novel, a follow up to Irish novelist O’Connor’s My Father’s House, is inspired by the true exploits of Monsignor ...Read Review
The Shadow Key
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Henry Talbot accepts the vacant post of physician at Plas Helyg, an estate in Wales. He has lost his status as a respected ...Read Review
Mina’s Matchbox
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This is a delicate domestic novel. The protagonist and first-person narrator is twelve-year-old Tomoko, who spends a year with her aunt’s family ...Read Review
Murder at Maybridge Castle (A Christmas Mystery, 3)
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December 1936, and a select number of guests are invited to spend a long weekend just before Christmas at Maybridge Castle in the far ...Read Review
The Second Murderer
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The 1940s in a sweltering Los Angeles. The city is full of bottle-blonde femme fatales, actors who never made it, and men looking ...Read Review
