‘In three years as a private detective, Emmet Warde had made many mistakes. He often felt the job itself was a mistake. The woman was certainly a mistake. He could have said no, the first time she came to see him. It was hard now.’– The City Underground [ About the Book ] Ireland 1941.…
‘Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows in this captivating historical novel for readers of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor’s Ashes of London and Kate Mosse.‘– Traitor in the Ice [ About the Book ] Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead.…
‘HISTORY REPEATS WHAT WE DON’T REMEMBER . . .‘– Take My Hand [ About the Book ] Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives…
‘The first boat was returning.Heavily overloaded, men crouching, huddled against one another and holding on tightly to avoid being thrown over the gunwales riding low in the choppy seas. And then, behind this little ship, another and then another, all chugging slowly, all loaded with men on every deck, every surface that could possibly hold…
‘London, 1942: As war rages on, a killer stalks the streets…‘– Dead In The Water Dead In The Water by Mark Ellis published May 19th with Headline Accent. The fifth book in the acclaimed DCI Frank Merlin historical detective series, it can be easily read as a standalone. It is a great pleasure to be…
‘A Revol Rossel thriller‘– A Traitor’s Heart [ About the Book ] Winter 1952. Leningrad’s icy streets are haunted by a murderer. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines…
‘IN A WORLD RULED BY GODS AND HEROES, THE VOICES OF STRONG WOMEN HAVE BEEN SILENCED.UNTIL NOW’– ELEKTRA [ About the Book ] The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and…
‘To betray, you must first belong…‘Edith and Kim [ About the Book ] In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th century history. Then she was written out of it. Drawing on the Secret Intelligence…
‘”Papa is a magician”, he said.“He is the Magician!” Erika repeated.From being a joke, or a way of cheering the table up, the new soubriquet for their father stuck. Erika encouraged all visitors to join her in giving her father this new name’– The Magician [ About the Book ] The Magician tells the story of…
‘Based around the known facts of the boyhood and youth of the great Cornish poet, Charles Causley and the life of the mother who raised him singlehandedly.’– Mother’s Boy [ About the Book ] Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a…