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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > Historical mysteries
"The Silver Pigs" is the classic novel which introduced readers
around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a
knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently
incovenient drive for justice. When Marcus Didius Falco encounters
the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses
immediately that there is something amiss. When she confesses that
she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her and, in doing
so, he gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving stolen
ingots, dangerous and dark political machinations, and, most
hazardous of all, one Helena Justina, a brash, indominable
senator's daughter connected to the very traitors that Falco has
sworn to expose.
November, 1932. Still reeling from the recent murder at Mullings,
country estate of the wealthy Stodmarsh family, the peaceful little
village of Dovecote Hatch is about to be rocked by news of another
violent death. When mild-mannered Kenneth Tenneson is found dead
from a fall down the stairs at his home, the coroner's inquest
announces a verdict of accidental death. Florence Norris, however -
the quietly observant housekeeper at Mullings - suspects there may
be more to it than that. Florence's suspicions of foul play would
appear to be confirmed when a second will turns up revealing
details of a dark secret in the Tenneson family's past. Determined
to find out the truth about Kenneth's death, Florence gradually
pieces the clues together - but will she be in time to prevent a
catastrophic turn of events?
'Pretty much everything I want in an historical thriller - an
absolutely terrific read' - Philip Gwynne Jones 'A great insight
into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the
seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' - Abir
Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a
report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern
quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and
harbouring dark secrets. His case becomes far more complicated when
a man's body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than
two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests
one of the nuns must be the killer. Meanwhile, Constable Carlo
Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an
officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many
enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city's most
feared criminal court? As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth,
identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of
them could ever have imagined . . . The Darkest Sin is an
atmospheric locked-room thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in
Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.
Who really killed the princes in the tower? Was Richard III truly
the ogre of legend and Shakespeare's play. - a wicked uncle who
murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England? Inspector Alan
Grant is not so sure. Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, he
becomes obsessed with unravelling this most enduring of historical
mysteries. As he investigates with the help of an enthusiastic
young American scholar, he unearths long-buried intrigues and comes
to a startling conclusion.
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Agatha Webb
(Hardcover)
Anna Katherine Green
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R700
Discovery Miles 7 000
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Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman
who brings unexpected peril When Lassair encounters a veiled
noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry
mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no
idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both
mystery and peril. Then a devastating flood hits the fens, and
among the wreckage and debris washed up at Aelf Fen is a body;
Lassair, in the company of a sheriff's officer, wonders if she is
dealing with murder . . . Meanwhile, in the south, Lassair's
partner Rollo is moving with relief towards the conclusion of his
mission for King William in the Holy Land. But then disaster
strikes, and, with the mighty forces of an emperor on his heels,
abruptly he turns from hunter to hunted. In order to escape alive,
he risks help from a stranger, and embarks on a voyage that turns
out to be far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined.
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