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"How well do you know your wife, Mr Crookham?"Peter Crookham arrives home late from work to a bloodbath: his journalist brother, Andy, is dead - covered in knife wounds - and his beautiful young wife, Mariana, is bathed in his blood.Convinced his wife is incapable of murder, Peter vows to clear her name. Yet he is forced to question his conviction when he discovers the subject of Andy's final investigation - Mariana's past.This past, Peter will discover, is inextric...

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Surrounded by evil, how long can one man's good intentions last?February 1941, Berlin: A murderer is on a killing spree. The Murder Squad is in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen.Georg Heuser is the idealistic, brilliant young detective set to crack the case.July 1959, West Germany: Lawyers Max Kraus and Paula Siebert are investigating war crimes of unimaginable magnitude committed near the Russian Front, the em...

A darkly comic, hallucinatory story about nightlife, identity, and the search for something that only some of us think they have found.

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Unable to sleep, Alice heads out into the streets of London for a late-night walk. But her quiet escape takes a strange turn when she meets an eccentric professor studying a mysterious storm.

High in the frozen mountains, far from any king's road and beyond the reach of mercy, stands a fortress abandoned by history and feared by every village that still remembers its name.When a weary mercenary company takes shelter inside the ruined castle during a savage winter campaign, they believe they have found protection from the storm, the enemy, and the dead men left behind on the battlefield. But the fortress is not empty. Its halls shift in the dark. Its doors open onto room...

Travelling the roads of Wales a man is drawn into a mysterious gathering of wandering men, where folklore and old secrets reveal a world few ever see.