Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best ThrillerA Love Reading Book of the Month'Mark Ezra's impressive debut creatively mixes biblical themes with echoes of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club... but is very much its own work' Financial Times'It's a well-written book. Punchy throughout' Spectator'Compelling and engaging' Julian Fellowes'...dis...

Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of the CWA Steel Dagger shortlisted A Sting in her Tale.After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a sniper's bullet, she's ...

When retired former spy Felicity Jardine's mission to drown herself is interrupted by a baby drifting down river, her training kicks in at once. She saves the baby, and conceals herself from the shady-looking man who is searching for it.Then an elderly neighbour to whom she bears a resemblance is found dead, and Felicity knows she's been rumbled. She has to dust off the highly trained and resourceful secret service officer she used to be, ensure the safety of the baby, and re-enter...

After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a sniper's bullet, she's off again, to a safe house in Notting Hill. There her only contact is her former colleague Matthew, still with MI6, who offers her a bit of investigation she can do online to pass the time. But Felicity is not one to work from home whe...

The streets of London can be dangerous—but so can this secret society of crime-solvers . . .Monica is barely a month into her role as leader of The Twelve—a clandestine group of retired experts tasked with eliminating London's most dangerous criminals—when a new case presents a major challenge. Ex-plumber David Latham brings them a personal mission: hunting down a suspect who walked free after the racially-motivated murder of his best friend's son.But as Moni...

Of all the paintings in all the galleries in all of Madrid.They chose a Caravaggio.And they chose last night.On the night Madrid hosts the Champions League Final, disaster erupts at the Prado Museum: a guard is murdered and a Caravaggio is stolen.British art detective Benjamin Blake, hoping for a quiet few days in the city on ...

**Pre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . ."Simply stunning ... might be the best non-fiction book I’ve ever read about post-war SIS" -** CHARLES BEAUMONT‘It has always been inculcated into me that no good could ever come of having anything to do with my father …’As a boy, Alistair Wood lived within the (very high) walls of a Secret Intelligence...

Charming, nostalgic and brimming with optimism – a sparkling story of friendship, community and staying true to yourself for fans of Lissa Evans and AJ Pearce.'Turbulence and tribulation in paradise... A fond and funny novel about the power of patience, love and kindness' Fiona Valpy1932: When gardener Robert Bardsley arrives at Anderby Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the Gloucestershire countryside, it is home to ‘Greenfields’, a commu...

The longest day. The deadliest sins.*From the bestselling author of Dark Island*All of Daniel Aubrey's books can be read as standalones.The residents of Orkney can’t sleep.Through 18-hour summer days, the islands are drenched in unrelenting sunshine.But a killer with a shadowy past is living undetected on the archipelago.As the heat rises, reporter Freya will not rest until she’s bro...

When her zany neighbour Doris Cleaver invites Ruth Finlay on a hiking tour with a mixed group of trauma survivors, neither anticipates that they'll have to solve a murder.When one of the party, a nurse from Melbourne, is found dead in her room before they’ve even started the hike in Apollo Bay, they know there is a killer in their midst. Then, on that same day, one of the tour group disappears.As Ruth battles a bout of influenza that leaves her weak and scarcely able to thi...

Cairo, 2010. As the vast city swelters in the summer heatwave, anti-government protesters take to the streets.When visiting businessman Geoff Ward is kidnapped, his client Khaled and Khaled’s sister, Layla, a prominent activist, set out to find the Englishman. Meanwhile, back in the UK, Geoff’s wife, Angie, frustrated by her feelings of helplessness and the government’s apparent ineffectiveness, contacts an old family friend, Shimon, to ask for help.Who has taken Geoff and ...