This book is a sequel to the first adventures of Thadeus Burke, continuing the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s insurance broker and his sister, Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now the summer of 1926 and our hero, assisted by his loyal staff, divide their time between London and Cambridge. Following the Derby at Epsom, a body is found, a major art robbery occurs, and some very peculiar anonymous postal deliveries keep the amateur sleuths busy until they can finally relax at the theatre in Paris. Between the three main mysteries is woven a …
DCI Bev Smith is enjoying a rare Sunday off with her family and friends in the garden of her home. Her peace of mind is soon shattered by a call from DS Jones advising her of a domestic incident that doesn’t seem to add up. Not long after that she is called to her local Gastro Pub to investigate, a body has been found outside. What appears to be a run-of-the-mill mugging takes a different shape when the victim is found to be an ex-commander of police, who worked in the Met, took retirement, and then went overseas in an …
In 1988, Harvard law graduate Tom Metzler is visiting London for the first time. Although on legal business, he finds time to visit the Natural History Museum where, among the cornucopia of treasures he witnesses something that changes his life forever: the sight of a stunningly beautiful young woman. He’s elated when their eyes meet and she fixes him with a winsome smile, but in an instant and as if by magic, she disappears. This vision of beauty reappears at Tom’s hotel later that evening. Tom’s delighted yet bewildered when she addresses him by name without the slightest introduction, and …
Newly promoted after successfully rising to the greatest challenge of her career, Angela Crossley finds herself once again facing evil head on, but this time her investigative insight is clouded by the burgeoning awareness of her increasing sensitivity to the paranormal. Newly installed at Scotland Yard, she s haunted by the past, even as her inexplicable dreams foretell events and crimes to come with terrifying accuracy. Her new department's first task is to look into patterns of criminal behaviour find the correlations between crime and criminal, victim and violation, pick up the trail and solve the unsolvable. The past, therefore, …
In 1980, President Carter’s chances of reelection are destroyed by the failure of the mission to rescue the hostages held in Iran. In the aftermath, the Iranians claimed to have discovered nine U.S. bodies at the desert location where the mission disintegrated into panic and explosion, while the U.S. authorities claimed that only eight men were missing. Years later, an English monk, once an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland whose life was torn apart by a disastrous undercover operation that led to his parents’ murder, receives a U.S. tycoon’s deathbed confession that he was part of a sinister and successful …
The Path is the journey of a lifetime to self-discovery. It is the story of a group of international travellers who walk the Camino de Santiago, the ancient 800-kilometre pilgrimage from the Pyrenees to the remains of the apostle Saint James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in Northern Spain. The group is made up of all ages, professions, and religious beliefs. They include a sex-obsessed British ex-army captain, a beautiful Danish businesswoman, a manic Austrian architect, a Welsh painter, a driven American priest, and a comic duo mother and daughter from Canada. The 35-day walk is tough and …
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