Saturnalia AUD45.00
It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness - then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest. Read More...
One Virgin Too Many AUD28.00
A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation wants to kill her - and neither does he. Beset by his own family troubles, by his new responsibilities as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, and by the continuing search for a new partner, he turns her away. Immediately he regrets it. Read More...
Two for the Lions AUD20.00
Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has hit upon the perfect plan - offering his services to Vespasian and Titus in conducting the 'great Census' of AD 73 as a tax collector with draconian powers. If he does well, his fee will finally allow him to join the middle ranks and wed long-suffering companion Helena Justina. Meanwhile, Falco is needed to trace a relative who has eloped, and has a crazy plan for finding an extinct herb. Read More...
Stalker AUD16.50
Anna Lee... Private Investigator at Brierly Securities where account books are more important than case files. A missing furniture dealer is revealed to be a fraud, poacher and lecher - and shadowless. Anna heads from London to Exmoor. Read More...
Death in Autumn AUD14.00
The tip-off could have been a joke. But there was nothing funny about the woman's corpse, clad only in a fur coat and jewellery, that was dragged from the murky waters of the Arno in Florence's foggy dawn. With a murder hunt on his hands, the Marshal soon discovered he was investigating an enigma - a woman everyone said was a recluse, yet who had some very strange friends ... Read More...
Caging the Tiger AUD15.00
As Dr Helen Wilkinson stands over the body of her husband Edward it is just as she had imagined it so many times before. He looks calm, asleep almost... And yet something isn't right: in her fantasies there was never so much blood. How can she convince the police she didn't murder her husband - when she doesn't know herself...? Read More...
Death of a Ghost AUD30.00
John Sebastian Lafcadio's one-picture exhibition became very fashionable, and so it was that one spring afternoon when the eighth picture was being exhibited for the first time, at the Lafcadio, a number of well-known people were gathered. It was when the lights failed for a few minutes that one amongst them stabbed young Tommy Dacre. Read More...
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes AUD32.00
The story of George Scovell. In 1812 two mighty armies maneuvered across the Spanish plains. They were finely balanced, under skillful leaders. Each struggled to get an advantage. It was a daunting challenge, and Wellington looked to one man to break the code: George Scovell. Read More...
Blood Rain AUD30.00
The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding marks the beginning of Inspector Aurelio Zen's most difficult and dangerous case, set against the backdrop of the three-thousand-year-old city of Catania. Read More...
Carson's Conspiracy AUD10.00
Carl Carson has a prosperous business, a dotty wife, and a fictitious son. When financial ruin threatens, he puts all these resources to use by staging an elaborate 'kidnapping' and liquidating his assets to pay the ransom. It might have worked, if Sir John Appleby hadn't been his neighbour. Read More...
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