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On the Greek island of Rhodes, Harry Barnett befriends a young woman. When she vanishes, Barnett is guided by a packet of her photographs back to England and to the doings of a secretive Oxford student society and the riddle of an old, unmarked grave.

Trouble has a way of finding those who spend most of their time trying to avoid it. Or so it appears to Superintendent Taleb, whose attempts to wind his career down to an unobtrusive retirement are once again in jeopardy. When delegated a television interview to discuss a thirty ...

On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its...

Sometimes the danger is on the inside... High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of dubious background, secretive and alone, currently acting as housesitter. The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined,...

It follows Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin, who leads a double life. Her high-flying police career is at odds with an attachment to shady businessman and drug trafficker Frank Le Saux, who acts as a father figure to her. Having kept him off the police's radar for years, Nancy fin...

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada choose...

Paris, 1919: In the aftermath of the Great War, with the fate of the world's nations hanging in the balance, a secret affair ends with the death of a senior British diplomat. The suspicious circumstances of the incident - a night-time fall from the roof of his mistress's apartmen...

Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, u...

Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomp...

In Paris, in 1919, politicians and statemen have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world's nations in the aftermath of World War I. But when a British diplomat falls to his death in unexplained circumstances, the man's son resolves to find out how his father died, even if ...

A reunion of RAF conscripts from 1955, at the home of one of them who has had financial success in the intervening years, leads to mysterious deaths.

When an elderly archaeologist refuses to sell his estate in Cornwall to a determined buyer, his son steps in to diffuse the problem, only to discover that the rambling old house holds secrets which, if revealed, could destroy his father's reputation.