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England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

The False Fortune, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

The Realm Invisible, a new HarperVoyager book, full description to follow when available...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SYDNEY SWEENEY In this feminist reimagining of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Katrina Van Tassel is not a prize to be won, but the center of a dangerous mystery and seductive supernatural love triangle. “The story blends gothic atmosphere, psychological...

The Castle, an exclusive group of houses built around a gold course, is a safe haven in a nation troubled by the war in Vietnam, political assassinations, and the growing shadow of Watergate. For the disillusioned publisher Hamer, it is an escape from a world that has disappointed him. For...

A boxer turned attorney must fight a conspiratorial web of corruption to defend a client accused of murder in a knockout legal thriller by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Working-class defense attorney Patsy Duggan was built to fight in the ring, at the chess table, and in the...

Der vierte Band der »Plantagenet«-Saga: Ein Konflikt zwischen Kirche und Staat, der in einem blutigen Attentat und einem der ungeklärten Rätsel des Mittelalters endet England, 1165. Henry II. erfährt am eigenen Leib, wie einsam es an der Spitze der Macht sein kann. Seine Affäre mit Rosamund Clifford wird seine Ehe mit Eleonor von Aquitanien in Scherben zurücklassen und der Konflikt mit seinem ehemaligen Vertrauten und Kanzler, Thomas Becket, eskaliert. Der offene Streit bringt Henry dazu, den inzwischen zum Erzbischof von Canterbury ernannten Mann ins Exil zu schicken.

By the three-time winner of the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: an unforgettable thriller set on post-WWII Iwo Jima In 1947, two years after the surrender of Japan, an American contingent is sent to the devastated island of Iwo Jima. Led by newly-appointed Consul...

Aloysius Archer returns to find himself at the heart of a conspiracy bigger than anyone could ever imagine from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. ​ Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer is no stranger to trouble, but when the former love of his life...

Some ruins hide more than just history… A generation of lost children… In Victorian England, unwanted babies were a problem to be solved. And in a lonely part of the countryside, The Wainwright School was praised for giving them a home. But the children who passed through its doors had a...

From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mrs England and The Household, comes Stacey Halls' most gripping, unsettling and thought-provoking novel yet. London, 1960. When Celia and Gregory Ringrose buy their first home on the edge of Hampstead Heath they feel like they've won...

This atmospheric and award-winning historical thriller inspired by the first female serial killer in history explores how far some will go for justice—and how far they may have to fall. In mid-seventeenth-century Rome, Giulia Toffana stands trial for her alleged crimes. Alongside her daughter...

Aloysius Archer returns to find himself at the heart of a conspiracy bigger than anyone could ever imagine from internationally bestselling author David Baldacci. A CRY FOR HELP. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer is no stranger to trouble, but when the former love of...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Dales Detectives series, Julia Chapman, comes a vibrant new mystery featuring a mismatched detective duo. There’s danger at the bus depot . . . Coventry bus driver Errol Dexter finds himself in the crosshairs of the Serious Crime Squad as the...

‘The master of historical crime fiction’ LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON With over 1 million copies sold, Andrew Taylor is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London. This is the best of gripping, exquisitely researched historical crime fiction, perfect for fans of CJ Sansom, Robert...

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When a celebrity bad boy is murdered in Jazz Age New York, a reporter, a detective, and a wife must navigate the dangerous gap between truth and power. Based on a real-life crime, The Ace of Spades is a gripping tale of genius, ambition, and deception. New York City, 1920. On a bright June...

Partial Author Read From the New York Times bestselling author of The Goddess of Warsaw comes a suspenseful novel of art, deception, and revenge, a dual-time line story of a contemporary hired killer out to avenge the horrors of World War II. When a paintbrush proves more lethal than a pistol...

Es ist Spätsommer 1984, und die Kleinstadt Waterville in Maine steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Ein Streik in der Papierfabrik dauert schon seit einem Jahr an, hat Nachbarn gegeneinander aufgebracht und alle mittellos zurückgelassen. Die Männer sind gebrochen und erschöpft, aber die Frauen sind nach wie vor bereit, alles zu tun, um Arbeitsplätze zu retten und ihr Viertel zurückzuerobern - mit Babs Dionne, der lokalen Gewerkschaftsvorsitzenden, an der Spitze. Als sie vor fünfzehn Jahren blutüberströmt aus dem Wald zurückkam, hat sie der Gewalt eigentlich abgeschworen.

Thomas Finbow is sent to London by Lady Margaret on a sensitive mission - to seek out and persuade her husband - his master - Sir Robert to give up his foolish infatuation with Lady Imogen - a notorious woman of the Court. But once there, Thomas is thrown into a much graver situation - the body of a young woman is found washed up beside the Thames, terribly mutilated, and soon Thomas becomes caught up in a bizarre series of events including the theft of a corpse, and even his own imprisonment.