Robert Goddard

One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable....

On a stifling afternoon at police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement is handed a ticking time bomb of a case that will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France....

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case....

Why should Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Straford resign at the height of his career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly reject him? The answer is complex....

Harry Barnett, a middle-aged failure, leads a shabby existence....

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery.

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances....

It is a hot summer's day in the tourist village of Avebury. A man sits outside the Red Lion pub, waiting. He sees a woman with three young children, two of them running ahead while their sister dawdles behind. A child's voice catches on the breeze....

Autumn has come to the small town of Glastonbury. Lance Bradley is contemplating his own idleness when he receives an unusual phone call from the disabled sister of an old friend....

Thirteen years ago, surgeon Edward Hammond performed a life-saving operation on Serbian gangster Dragan Gazi....

Harry Barnett thought he had left his military career behind, so he is startled when two figures from his past turn up on his doorstep after 50 years....

It could be your average suicide. A man found dead in his car, engine running, parked at the end of a lonely track, a tube feeding deadly fumes from the exhaust through the window. Except for the seven-year-old boy still breathing in the boot....

1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world’s nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War....

Geoffrey Staddon turned his back on the best things in his life. Twelve years later, amidst the tatters of his career and marriage, he is forced to contemplate his betrayal....

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home....

Harry Barnett is informed that his son is in hospital in a diabetic coma....

Recovering from the recent tragedy of his wife's death in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband at their new home - Otherways....

Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope....

Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage, but Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as 50 years of secrets begin to unravel....

The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage....