The Missing Hour***Winner of the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction*** YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN ARRESTED. Maggie's husband is suddenly arrested in the middle of the night, on suspicion of murder. When Grant dies in custody, her world implodes. EVERYONE BELIEVES HE IS GUILTY. All the evidence points to Grant being a killer including DNA at the scene. But how can this be true when he was with Maggie all night? ONLY YOU CAN PROVE THEM WRONG. Following a trail of

and religion is a controversial business

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Lady Black Eyes is a fabled beauty believed to possess great powers of enchantment and sorcery

excited lovers and dead bodies

It now appears that the objects are fighting back

suspected of murder and

But there's no alternative when a local dealer turns up burnt

is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva with her lover Percy Shelley

But amid the peril

Williams has a gift for showing how great movements in history affect the lives of people caught up in them' The Times

It has been this way for nine thousand years

So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of espionage