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The Path of the Wicked
Caro Peacock
Private investigator Liberty Lane's latest case takes her to rural Gloucestershire to uncover the truth of a brutal murder.
July, 1840. Did young Jack Picton, a known rebel and political agitator, kill governess Mary Marsh? Liberty Lane has left London for Cheltenham to find out, sharing the magistrate's doubts. He is, however, hiding something . . . but what? As Liberty is about to discover, behind Cheltenham's genteel façade lies a hotbed of vice. It is a place where the poor are driven to desperate lengths to escape the horror of the workhouse. A place which is harbouring a ruthless killer. Can Liberty uncover the truth in time?
Friends in High Places
Caro Peacock
Featuring private investigator Liberty Lane
September, 1840. A body is discovered hanging in the attic at Gore House, Kensington home of Lady Blessington. Uncovering evidence that the murder was meticulously prepared for and planned well in advance, Liberty Lane finds herself plunged into a highly dangerous game involving blackmail, treachery, espionage - and cold-blooded murder.
The Killing Site
Caro Peacock
1847. When Liberty Lane is kidnapped from outside a smart London townhouse, where she had been attending a dinner party with her husband Robert, she must call on all her investigative skills to discover who has taken her, and why. While Libby tries to formulate a plan of escape, her old friend Tabby makes a truly shocking discovery.
The Bride Box
Michael Pearce
The gift of a traditional Bride Box leads Mamur Zapt into a complex and intriguing investigation
Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past . . . At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor - and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is called in to investigate. He soon finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.
The Mouth of the Crocodile
Michael Pearce
"A lovingly detailed portrait of Egypt during the Great War. The result is a bit like a police procedural reimagined by Douglas Adams" Kirkus Reviews on The Bride Box
Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident - or something more sinister? A visiting Pasha from the Royal Household believes it was murder - and that he himself was the intended target. The Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, determines to uncover the truth.
The Women of the Souk
Michael Pearce
The kidnapping of an innocent schoolgirl throws a glaring light on the tensions and injustices of pre-War Egyptian society in this absorbing historical mystery.
Cairo, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt takes charge of the negotiations for her safe return. But, as the Mamur is to discover, there is more to this kidnapping than meets the eye.
Marbeck and the Double-Dealer
John Pilkington
From the author of the successful Thomas the Falconer mysteries comes a new historical series featuring Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck...
1600: a new century dawns. War with Spain has dragged on for fifteen years, the conflict in Ireland for six. Unease stalks England in the dying years of Elizabeth I's reign, and Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck is bored. Then a message from his spymaster, Sir Robert Cecil arrives: the existence of a spy has been discovered, code-named Morera, and Marbeck must uncover the true identity of this traitor quickly, before rumours of the young King Philip III forming a new Armada prove themselves to be true.
Marbeck and the King-in-Waiting
John Pilkington
Elizabethan intelligencer Marbeck must prove his loyalty to a dying queen and a country in turmoil...
Spring, 1603: Elizabeth I is dying, and her cousin James, King of Scotland, is her successor, but will the transition be peaceful? Marbeck helps a friend find her son, but events move fast and he soon finds himself in a maelstrom that threatens the peace of England.
Marbeck and the Privateers
John Pilkington
Marbeck must keep the peace at all costs...
Marbeck is charged by King James with the task of keeping the peace with England's new ally Spain. Yet there are those who profit from the war, but even Marbeck hasn't foreseen that the task will pit him against double agents and corrupt noblemen who will stop at nothing to wreck the treaty, forcing him to face his biggest challenge yet.
Marbeck and the Gunpowder Plot
John Pilkington
Government spy Marbeck uncovers a deadly conspiracy against Parliament and the King of England
1605. With the new King James on the throne, England is still fiercely divided between Catholic and Protestant. Ordered to keep watch on a well-known Papist, Marbeck's assignment takes on a greater urgency when rumours reach him of a terrible danger aimed at the King.
By the time he uncovers the terrifying truth, Marbeck has only a few days to expose the conspirators. The safety of the realm is at stake; but so is his own, and Marbeck needs eyes in the back of his head.
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