MutinyIt is 1797 when Kydd, now a master's mate, sails to the fabled Rock of Gibraltar the uttermost end of Europe, the finality of a continent. There, in an attempt to win the heart of a lady, he volunteers to join a dangerous mission to Venice to rescue a diplomat fleeing over the Alps in the wake of Buonaparte's victories. With his enigmatic, high born friend, Nicholas Renzi, Kydd experiences the tumultuous, heady last days of the Venetian republic. Back

He resumes his usual idleness

Keeping them safe

The original hardback books

Three things happened on May 5

battling in the most brutal of conditions

From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house

A colourful and exotic life

richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust

intricate research and most importantly

Was Natalie the random victim of a deranged psychopath

Whatever it takes

of all things