Luzie's father, Captain Tim Timm is unexpectedly hired by a shipping company that specialises in salvaging shipwrecks - and for Luzie that means summer holidays in the Caribbean! However it has to be said that life on board the Constantina is far from idyllic, as Elena Wagner, the company's ...
David McGregor's life has undergone a radical change: the former investment banker lost his fortune playing the stock exchange and has reinvented himself as a (seemingly) passionate whale conservationist. Leah Cullin, a young journalist, is investigating undercover on board ...
South Carolina, 1781. Antonia Lorimer is a young widow living alone on her plantation, Legacy, which has been devastated over the course of the American War of Independence. She has made it her business to rebuild the estate and nurse William Marshall, a British soldier, back to health. Antonia ...
Commissioner Richard Thiess is back with a new caseload. In the Munich suburb of Krailling, a man murders his sister-in-law's two daughters in the most gruesome manner imaginable; the sister-in-law escapes her intended fate by pure chance. Then there's the brutal attack on a taxi ...
A dead baby in the rubbish bin and dismembered body parts in plastic bags: when your daily business consists of dealing with murder and manslaughter, suffering and fear, despair and hatred, you can't afford to be of a delicate disposition. Instead, you need keen insight into human nature, ...
It is China, during the reign of the first emperor Qin Shi Huang (who ruled from 221-210 BC). Cao Pi is nine years old; his father Cao Shi is a crossbowman in the Imperial Army, but he has disappeared without trace, and their whole village is in mourning. Then Cao Pi's friend Mei ...
