This book is a must read for anyone who loved the Alex Rider adventures. Like Alex Rider, Max Cassidy is a fourteen year old boy with extraordinary talents and a very tragic back story.Max's Mother is in jail for murdering his father and now his father's former magician's assistant is his legal g...
The first of two books featuring luthier Gianni Castiglione and Detective Antonio Guastafeste, The Rainaldi Quartet is part murder mystery, part historical fiction mostly set in modern day Cremona, Italy. The quartet of the title includes Gianni, Antonio, Tomaso Rainaldi and Father Arrighi who ga...
IT WAS ON the ground floor of the fortress, a big corner office with a desk the size of a table-tennis table, a leather sofa and armchairs at one end, and a lot of artwork on the walls. The soldiers had put him in a chair facing the desk and taken up positions beside him. When the man in the blac...
He was so much in thrall to his mother that I feared she would refuse to let him come, particularly as she had not been a party to the arrangement. But in the event, they both turned up on the dot of one o’clock. I went out to greet them on the forecourt. Ludmilla was paying the taxi driver who h...