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'The Powder of Death' opens with a returned envoy to China meeting an English scholar in Oxford in the mid-13th century to share a deadly secret. They vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them as the consequences otherwise are too terrible to contemplate. The novel tells the story of...

Hettie and Tilly set out to investigate an old crime and a spate of new murders. Why is Mavis Spitforce dressed as a pumpkin? Can Irene Peggledrip really talk to cats from the spirit world? Did Milky Myers murder his family on Halloween, longer ago than anyone can remember? Questions that the tab...

Rose Alley is a city slum - no place for Queenie & her daughter, Gilly. It seems Queenie's dreams of escape will come true, Gilly opens a dressmaking shop, & is courted by one of the richest young men in the city. But they have made an enemy.

Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors. The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne. The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect two ...

Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany - in the summer of 1939 - will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything.

Brought up by friends of her mother's in the French countryside, Jenny Heron's world is idyllic. But Jenny's mother, Adele, decides that at 16, Jenny is growing up too quickly, and insists that she is placed in a strict Parisian convent school.

When a decomposing body is fished out of the Thames, the police think that at least identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around his wrist is a hospital band. On it is written the name of Dr F. Klein. But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. After evidence linking her to the...

When Jane Kinnear witnesses her lover's murder, she suddenly finds herself the target of his killer. Rushed to an anonymous police safehouse after an attempt on her life, it soon becomes clear that the man she thought she knew was actually an MI5 informant with important information about an immi...

Paris in 1968. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will Flemyng finds himself in the thick of the action, a young spy whose first adventures behind the Iron Curtain have already given him a secret glamour. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most complicated relationship in h...

Spain, 1939. Julia enters a convent. She volunteers to help in a maternity clinic, but worrying practices in the clinic force her to decide how far she will go. England, 2011. 34-year-old Ruby Rae has finally found the strength to pack away her parents' possessions and sell the family home. But a...