Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married German national Dr Willy Büttner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and returned to settle in Hamburg. Dr Richter died in 1938. After visiting her ailing parents,...
In the fourth and final installment of David Downing’s spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution...
General Bottando can't believe his rotten luck. He has just been promoted—to a position that's heavy on bureaucratic duties—but disturbingly light on investigative responsibilities. As if that wasn't annoying enough, he's received a tip about a...
Striding across Europe through the killing fields of three decades—from riot-torn Berlin in 1931 to Adenauer's Germany in 1954, awash in duplicitous "allies" busily undermining one another—Field Gray reveals a world based on expediency, where...
Lara McClintoch’s professional pride is hurt when a writing cabinet she thought was a genuine antique turns out to be a fake.
When the antique dealer who sold it for a million dollars is murdered and the money goes missing, Lara follows the...
In Rome, a reclusive billionaire businessman asks antiques dealer Lara McClintoch to find a rare Etruscan artifact for his collection. Lara likes the idea of visiting the beautiful hill towns of Tuscany on an expense account.
But when strange...
‘An insightful, frighteningly intelligent thriller… a gem of a novel’ Robert Dinsdale
Moscow, 1932. Gareth Jones, a young Welsh reporter, arrives in the Soviet Union excited to see for himself how Josef Stalin is forging a new...