Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London daily, is intrigued by the brutal murder of a left wing priest, particularly when he discovers that an emissary from the Vatican had cleared his apartment of papers when his body was discovered but before the police were called.  He turns this piece of information over to the investigating magistrate, Elena Fiorini, who inadvertently reveals to him that she is under pressure from her superiors not to pry too deeply into the motives for the killing.  Such pressure only increases both Elena's and Chapman's desire to find out precisely what happened and why, a quest which leads them into the bowels of the Vatican's archives, to a clandestine meeting of a banned political party and back to the last days of Mussolini's dictatorship, when people changed their identities but only pretended to shift their allegiances. A taut and serpentine thriller in the tradition of Robert Harris, in which the eternal city is as much a character as the people who inhabit it.

Unholy Trinity

PAUL ADAM

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Little. Brown and Company

Sleeper

Rainaldi was a violin-maker and when he was discovered slumped over his workbench, murdered with one of his own chisels, both the police and his friends are at a loss to discover a motive. Then it comes to light that Rainaldi had believed he was on the track of an infamous Stradivari - twin to the one housed in the Asmolean Museum and subject to two hundred years of myth and rumour. With nothing else to go on his two close friends pick up the search from where he left off, and plunge headlong into a world where great musical instruments change hands for millions, where forgery is an art form and where murder is often a dealer's chosen method of negotiation.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Time Warner

Enemy Within

Genre Fiction

Timewarner Books

Genesis II

Little,Brown

Max is an ordinary north London schoolboy by day, but at night he performs sell-out public shows as an escapologist - nicknamed The Half-Pint Houdini by the tabloid press. His father, Alexander, was also a world-renowned escapologist, who disappeared two years earlier in the Central American state of Santo Domingo. His body was never found, but Max's mother, Helen, was convicted of murdering her husband by a Santo Domingan court. One evening, after his show, Max receives a visit from a mysterious man from Santo Domingo - Lopez-Vega tells Max that his mother's trial was rigged and, if Max comes to his hotel room the following night, he has something to give him.When Max goes to the hotel, he finds Lopez-Vega dead, shot through the head. The room has clearly been searched by the killer, but what was he looking for? By chance, Max finds a piece of paper hidden under Lopez-Vega's wig. Written on the paper is a sequence of eight numbers - 83521113. What do the numbers mean? Are they a code, or maybe the combination for a lock or a safe? Could they be the key to unlocking the mystery of his father's disappearance and getting his mother out of prison?

Shadow Island

Corgi Childrens

Be careful, Max. They will try to destroy you, as they are trying to destroy me. His father is missing, presumed dead and his mother is serving a 20-year sentence for his murder, but teenage escapologist Max Cassidy is certain everybody is wrong about both things. And now, his quest to find the truth has become very dangerous.

The Jaws of Death - Max Cassidy 2 (Max Cassidy Adventure)

Teenage escapologist, Max Cassidy, knows for sure that his mother did not kill his father, his father is not even dead but somebody seems very determined to prevent Max from discovering the truth - somebody who wants him dead.

Attack at Dead Man's Bay (Max Cassidy Adventure)

Teen & Young Adult

Corgi Children's

'My mum killed my dad, then dragged his body all the way along the beach . . . I don't believe a word of it' Max Cassidy is a teenage escapologist, so good he's nicknamed the Half-pint Houdini. His father disappeared two years ago and his body has never been found. His mother is now serving a life sentence for her husband's murder. Max's mission to learn the truth about his family takes him on an thrilling journey, from London to the horrors of the terrifying Shadow Island in central America. Escapology is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as real life . . . The first book in Paul Adam's fast and furious Max Cassidy thriller series.

Escape from Shadow Island

Knife Edge

Endeavour

Endeavour Publishing

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