World War II is nearly over. For the Russians, the enemy is no longer Nazi Germany, but the American behemoth that threatens to topple the Communist revolution.
Deep within the walls of the Kremlin, Stalin's top man hatches a brilliant...
In his widely acclaimed, intelligently written first novel, Anthony Hyde gives us the thrilling story of a search — from Canada to Georgetown to Paris to Leningrad, and finally to an isolated Russian village — for a missing man, a missing...
Far from the gentle slopes of the Hundred Acre Wood lies The Red House, the setting for A.A Milne's only detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime...
He’s a rookie spy chasing a violent Russian KGB man. She’s a young student looking for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared. Can he save her?
It’s the height of the Cold War and Finland is the playground of the Russian KGB.
A...
The Shadow lives by darkness, gliding through the waiting night unseen, a mocking laugh his only calling card. None who have trafficked in crime will ever forget him. The may sneer at the law…but not at The Shadow. Each generation of evil breeds a...
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the...
Test your own powers of deduction alongside those of the most celebrated detective ever to walk the streets of London or grace the pages of a book. Sherlock Holmes brings his extraordinary insight and intriguing quirks to every case he is called...
As reeve of the small village of Prior Byfield, Simon Perryn must rule on many local disputes, a task he often shares with the steward of St. Brideswide's nunnery. But when the steward is accused of dishonesty and forced to relinquish his post, the...