StalkedA taut, atmospheric and gripping thriller with on going detective character Jonathan Stride working a murder case that's a bit too close to home In Alabama, the luck of a convicted murderer is about to change. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he can't believe it when a chance to escape arises. Now on the loose, will he seek revenge on the woman who put him behind bars ten years ago? In Minnesota, detective Jonathan Stride's partner, Maggie Bei, wakes

Walker agrees to an interview with Nick Travers

the solitary hunter who took her in when she was just seven years old

What neither Slattery nor Jakob know

The second is Serlo

chockful of sublimity and sinNew York Times Book Review)

Now he is dead from poisoning and the prosecution has accused Lady Neshratta - apparently tired of the dalliance - of the crime

Anahita is the beautiful

Naive yet insightful

a man of letters quietly running a bookshop in the rural town of Romsey

hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay: listening stations

Morgan has arrived just as one of the rival princelings has begun to control Herat

and his hopes for a dazzling literary career now lie in tatters