The Drowning Mark
Ex-copper Mike Harley and his lover, Dr Alexandra Kennedy are happily ensconced in a boat on the Suffolk coast - that is, until a dead body washes up... When the investigation begins, Mike feels as if the police are... See More
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Quick ViewEx-copper Mike Harley and his lover, Dr Alexandra Kennedy are happily ensconced in a boat on the Suffolk coast - that is, until a dead body washes up... When the investigation begins, Mike feels as if the police are... See More
(24 reviews)
Quick ViewMark Shaw is a young architect living in London. One bitter winter day an exhausted man arrives on his doorstep. He has travelled from Nairobi to bring Mark a message. Mark's father, Neil Shaw - a buccaneering figure, big... See More
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Quick ViewA powerful novel of a South African dynasty and it's changing fortunes... In the aftermath of World War One, South Africa's once thriving ostrich-feather industry has dramatically declined. Now, in the early 1920s, times... See More
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Quick ViewThe roof garden of her luxury apartment block is the only place seven-year-old Dory is ever allowed by herself... Through her new binoculars she watches a mysterious woman- a woman she has named the Princess of the... See More
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Quick ViewIn World War I Siberia, the winter is not all you have to escape... It's 1917, and middle-aged diamond magnate David Kade, originally a Russian Jew, is now a noble English man, having been newly knighted for donating... See More
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Quick ViewThey were burying Eddie Twyford south of the river in one of those bleak cemeteries that spread for miles along the Southern Railway: a landscape of marble, dead flowers, and bones... It's seems a great shame when a whole... See More
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Quick ViewA screech of brakes on wet tarmac - a cat fleetingly seen - then a crash... These were the beginnings of the nightmare for Rachel Chater. Still convalescing after the horrific accident and with her writer husband Bill... See More
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Quick ViewA British ship bound for Australia's penal colony is wrecked off the Slave Coast of West Africa. On board is Dominic, bastard son of the Earl of Stonor. He's been sentenced at Winchester Assizes to seven years for the theft... See More
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Quick View1860s American West. People in ill health are flocking to the Rockies in hope of a cure, religious splinter groups are moving west to found their own communities, and native American Indians are becoming increasingly hostile... See More
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Quick View"This is the story of three kingdoms. Two of them succumbed to white pressure and disappeared. One of them survives. Each is seen at a critical period in its history, when black met white head-on." King Affonso ruled the... See More
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Quick ViewDeadly secrets and shocking truths... When Jo Townsend spies a strange man taking photos of her running her stall in Camden Lock Market, she is shaken up to say the least. But her attempts to put the strange incident aside... See More
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Quick View"Who was this man who had been held up to me as the epitome of Christian virtue, a man who was supposed to have saved a French village, who was said to have murdered a German officer, raped a child, who was supposed to have... See More
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Quick ViewSouth Africa, 1857. The strong and resilient Susan Parker, arrives in the inland wilderness as the plain, stocky bride of a missionary--but soon after her arrival she is victim to a violent attack by Hottentot... See More
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Quick ViewOnce more we join detectives George Macrae and Leopold Silver in the continuing fight against crime... Leo's visiting his parents one Sunday while his girlfriend Zoe stays at home attempting to avoid the confrontational... See More
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Quick ViewJohn Franklin was in charge of finding a camp-site for Lord Lamming and Lady Lamming. They'd been travelling for hours from London. The journey to Africa was arduous, and Franklin wondered why Lord Lamming had chosen... See More
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Quick ViewA fight to the death... In the final years of the First World War, East Africa is dominated by the Germans, whose powerful paddle-steamer, Afrika, prowls Lake Tanganyika - preventing the Allies from launching a crucial... See More
(22 reviews)
Quick View"I'll come back." These were the chilling words of Malcolm Stephen Underdown before being led away by police following his brutal murderer of Edward Craig, the fiancé of Underdown's former girlfriend, Jane Harrison... See More
(4 reviews)
Quick ViewIt is March 1939. Across the parched South African landscape move the tiny figures of a ten-year-old white boy, Paul, and his aged Zulu companion, Luther. They are trying to walk 800 burning miles to Paul's aunt, his last... See More
(10 reviews)
Quick ViewA murderous place... When Miss Sandra Benson goes missing, the quiet sleepy English village in which she lives is sent into uproar. It's unthinkable that anyone in such a nice town should be murdered, but that is exactly... See More
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Quick ViewThe fifth instalment in the gripping Macrae and Silver mysteries... Detective Superintendent George Macrae knows he's on dangerous ground living with a known ex-prostitute. What he doesn't know is that Frenchy has started... See More
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Quick ViewIn the convoluted world of 1940s Europe, there is a fine line between ally and enemy. John Spencer is enjoying a relaxing evening in his Hampstead home with his wife Sue when an anonymous envelop is amongst the pile of post... See More
(21 reviews)
Quick ViewPrison doctor Anne Vernon never much liked Ivor Taplin when he was serving a four-year jail sentence for assaulting his wife. But, on his release, Anne discovers that he was in fact a battered husband who only turned on his... See More
(11 reviews)
Quick ViewA mute child is their only key to solving the double murder. When photojournalist Duncan Wylie is walking out on London's Hampstead Heath, he follows tracks to a nearby mansion- -seemingly deserted except for two dead... See More
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Quick ViewDanger in the desert... Alan Scholefield revives the 1904 revolt of the Herrero nation against the German colonizers of the Southwest Africa, depicting one of the bloodier, more harrowing massacres in African... See More
(15 reviews)
Quick ViewThe ride to vengeance... Sixteen-year-old Jamie Black arrives as a British convict at Cape of Good Hope. Along with four of his companions, they plot to escape their imprisonment... They set out on the run still in... See More
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Quick ViewThe past is catching up with the Wynters... A letter, written in 1939 but never delivered, finally reaches its destination almost five decades later. Reading this relic of the past from his late grandfather, Daniel Wynters... See More
(38 reviews)
Quick ViewUnder the mercy of a fearsome king... Robert Fraser Black had an unusual upbringing - raised in the heart of Zululand during the reign of King Chaka, The Great Elephant. Years later, he recalls both the idyllic and... See More
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Quick ViewIs it worth the risk? Dr. Anne Vernon has recently taken a job as the only woman in an all-male prison. Her role there is twofold: She must cater to the physical well-being of the prisoners and also investigate their... See More