The Last Days of Newgate (Pyke Mysteries)St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far reaching. In his pursuit of the murderer, Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people, and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon

the world has been a harsher place

Higher Bridge is one game

Karl is forced to confront his deepest fear - that he will turn out to be like his father

1880s England

small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals

But is she powerful enough to protect everyone at Strega-Schloss

Then Brodie's car windscreen is smashed

and Mogs own mysterious past

a Turkish victory looms on the horizon

1979Maggie Thatcher is prime minister

He's afraid

Lily Pascale gets a phone call out of the blue from her old friend Jess