The third novel in the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy. From the brilliant Oxford graduate who understands the espionage game better than most of her male colleagues, to the beguiling woman who uses her charm and brains to deceive everyone around her, Fiona Samson presents a fascinating puzzle. Read More...

When KGB Major Erich Stones defected to the West he should have been handed over to MI5, and the story should have been over for Bernard Samson. But Samson's bosses find an excuse to hold him for questioning, and some of his answers point to the possibility that could tear the department to pieces. Read More...

The sardonic malcontent Bernard Samson follows his prey from the stinking heat of the Mexican Jungle to the chilly streets of Berlin. His adversary is Erich Stinnes, the KGB major who had arrested him in East Berlin. Read More...

Falco's back in trouble as usual. With Titus Caesar in pursuit of his patrician girlfriend Helena, Marcus Didius Falco, the louche Roman sleuth, is sent out of the way on an undercover mission to Roman Germany. Read More...

Working for the Palace was not all perks. Poor pay. Jealous colleagues. And now a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's most hard-done-by investigator, sharing a cell with a large rat ... Read More...

Rome, AD 72. Marcus Didius Falco, one-time Imperial agent and unemployed informer, has an insurmountable problem. The Emperor Vespasian has refused to elevate him to the middle rank and therefore he cannot marry his aristocratic love, Helena Justina. Read More...

Rome, AD 72. 'I still can't believe I've put the bastard away for good!' Petro muttered. Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch, and Marcus Didius Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals - Balbinus. But under Roman law citizens cannot be imprisoned; instead they are allowed 'time to depart' from the Empire to go into permanent exile. Read More...

Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise... Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. Read More...

AD 72: To many Rome is the centre of the Empire, to Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual informer, it is the home of his mother, the domineering matriarch who has kept the Didius clan together since her husband absconded with a redhead some twenty years before. Read More...

Back in Rome after a dangerous mission to the Roman province of Baetica, Marcus Didius Falco is enjoying a drink of ill-travelled Spanish wine with his old friend Petronius Longus when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a severed human hand. Read More...