When Catherine Galitza is attacked and badly injured, two very different men are keen to uncover the truth of the assault, and although they appear to be motivated by love and admiration, at heart they may well have other interests. From the author of BETRAYAL, A DARK DEVOTION and REQUIEM.
Joe, who is struggling with his job with a high powered legal firm in London is faced with the task of attempting to find his childhood friend who disappeared 4 years previously.[return][return]There were a couple of plot threads, such as the relationship with the father, which seemed to be rathe...
Night Sky follows the lives of three people throughout WWII. Vasson, a despicable, clever, hateful character who wants to profit from the war and is working with the Germans. He takes up small jobs to earn easy money because of his desire to be affluent. Julie, a determined and strong-willed w...
In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind three people together in a web of treachery and passion.
Just finished listening to the audiobook of Clare Francis' 'A Dark Devotion' crime novel - quite disappointing. I couldn't warm to the characters or the plot, found it cluttered with annoying / unnecessary adverbs and damp squib ending. It's written in first person and narrated by Lindsay Duncan,...
Secretly funded by Moscow, out of the savagery of the Paris barricades was born the most sinister of all the terrorist groups of the 1960's. The challenge for Nick Ryder of Special Branch is to find and infiltrate the cell. From the author of REQUIEM and DECEIT.
Cable news finally delivered at seven, but gave only the top four cabinet appointments. Schenker called Cramm’s room immediately to find that his assistant, ever the great anticipator, had at that very moment plucked the information from the Reuters wire service. Driscoll had got Agriculture. Sch...
Sometimes I saw the delay as a sign that, despite their investigation of houses, boats and cars, the police had found nothing against me and would soon be forced to admit their mistake. At other less confident moments I saw the delay in more sinister terms. I imagined that somehow or another they...
He had been too ready to listen to DC Smith’s assurances that the matter was being taken seriously, that further investigations were in hand, and – the latest excuse – that they were waiting for the fire investigation report. When it finally dawned on him that nothing was happening, he felt a col...
Dealers thronged the cattle pens, while bargain hunters moved along the line of vegetable and second-hand-goods stalls. Above the bellows of the cattle rose the chants of the livestock auctioneers, and from somewhere beyond the pens came the tinkle of a barrel organ. Billy...