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Sarah Rayne
Another day, another grand scheme! The thieving Fitzglen family are back in this second instalment of the spellbinding Theatre of Thieves gothic mystery series set in Victorian England.
London, 1908…
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Antiques dealer Nell West is valuing the contents of her late husband Brad’s childhood home, Stilter House. Set on the remote Derbyshire Peaks, there was once a much older property…
Nell values the contents of her late husband’s home, Stiler House where Isobel Acton committed a crime. An elderly aunt warns that Nell and her daughter Beth must not stay…
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Phineas Fox must research the infamous violinist Roman Volf for a documentary. Hanged for his part in assassinating Tsar Alexander II in 1881, Volf was a notorious criminal. On uncovering…
Having undertaken an assignment at Cresacre Abbey School, researcher Phineas Fox discovers that curious legends about the school’s past still linger, including the fate of a group of nuns who…
Researcher Phineas Fox has agreed to help track down his neighbour’s cousin, who has disappeared without trace, leaving a single clue to her whereabouts: an obscure 1940s portrait of an…
Music researcher Phineas Fox is asked to verify the contents of an old scrapbook, rescued from the site of the historic Chopin Library in Warsaw. He discovers an intriguing link…
Music researcher Phineas Fox has been enjoying gathering background material for a biography of Franz Liszt. But matters take a decidedly unexpected turn when his investigations lead to Linklighters, a…
Amesmerising novel of psychological suspense
The mesmerising new psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of THE DEATH CHAMBER
The Death Chamber, set in both the past and the present, takes us to Calvary Gaol, a former prison where a TV crew has turned up for a shoot. But…
When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather’s North London house, it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the strange glimpses that revealed…
Jack Fitzglens plans to seek out the infamous Talisman Chalice, steal it and create a dazzling piece of theater around it, but he uncovers something far darker. Scandal, secrets, and…
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Having unexpectedly inherited an Elizabethan manor house, the new owner Quentin Rivers has asked Phineas Fox to investigate the house’s history. As Phin delves into The Tabor’s dark and mysterious…
When Nell West starts extending her Oxford antiques shop, she is not expecting to uncover strange fragments of its past: a past that links to an ancient bell tower on…
When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study…
The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspenseNthe story of a chess set believed to possess a dark power.
When Oxford don Michael Flint travels to Fosse House in the Fens to research a book on WWI music and poetry, he is at once aware of the house’s eerie…
When Michael Flint is asked to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale’s childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall - twin…
