Handsome, brilliant young conman Andrew Raikes is set to swap the hustle for a life of quiet luxury and independence in the English countryside. Then, barely two months in to his new life, a letter arrives from a man even more cunning and ruthless than himself. Raikes is soon blackmailed into car...
Can the peregrine falcon, Fria, who has escaped from captivity, learn to fend for herself in the wild? And can Smiler, desperately anxious that Fria should be all right, solve for himself the problem that has kept him in hiding from the police for so long?The final book in Victor Canning's classi...
Another reworking of the Arthurian legend, but so bereft of Arthurian resonance that it might have worked better as an unvarnished or unvarnished historical novel of the Roman twilight in Britain. As the Saxon pillagers sweep ever farther west, young Baradoc, Roman army veteran & son of a British...
A Chaplet Of Purple Vatch 3. A Chaplet Of Purple Vatch Inbar guessed that Magwa had helped Tia to escape. Two nights later he took her to the long hall, dismissed the old woman from the cooking quarters and the other house servant. Then he flung her on the bed and beat her until she confessed (wh...
Lightning Strikes Twice 1. Lightning Strikes Twice It had been raining all night, and all the morning; raining hard all over Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. It was a cold February rain, filling the ditches, swelling the rivers, and stripping the few dead leaves that still clung to the trees. It ...
Wide main roads have been flung across it to the sea. Yearly, thousands of cars tear across the county towards the coastal towns, and yearly thousands of men and women and children sit upon the beaches of Margate, Ramsgate and such towns, and gaze out to sea as though they resented the bar it has...