It is 1321 and the King's favourite, Hugh Despenser, is corruptly using his position to steal lands and wealth from other lords. His rapacity has divided the nation and civil war looms.
In Tiverton rape and murder have unsettled the folk...
Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders realize, but usually that violence is confined to the printed page. Not so in Concord, Mass., where the arrival of Homer Kelly, an expert on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has...
A thrilling new novella about a Jekyll and Hyde - obsessed Scot in Paris from the international-bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus mysteries.
For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop...
EVERYTHING IS LEGAL IN AMSTERDAM.
EXCEPT MURDER.
Nadia Tesla will do anything to get the job done. That includes posing as a window girl in De Wallen, Amsterdam’s notorious red-light district, to solve a murder. In this case, Nadia’s...
Master artist Jon Rafter can restore antique paintings back to their original luster with little effort, but he can’t restore his wife Annie’s happiness after she suffers a late-term miscarriage. Living in a refurbished plantation house...
Hot-tempered curator Elena Oliverez threatens to kill her boss, Frank DePalma, when he orders her to put a particularly hideous piece of sculpture-donated by a wealthy patron of the new Museum of Mexican Arts-on display for the museum opening. So...
The world’s most successful smuggler, Kek Huuygens, returns in this tale of blackmail, white flesh (slightly compromised), and money, money, money, by the author of the popular Captain José Da Silva novels.
What kind of suitcase is worth...
London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital. An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that – and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from...