Robert Edric
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Germany, spring, 1946. The Nuremberg Trials are under way. 300 miles north, in the Rohstadt Institute, a British 'Assessment and Evaluation' centre, Alex Foster interrogates a succession of lesser war criminals, exploring their pasts and their crimes, and deciding their futures in the soon-to-be reborn Germany.
15) The devil's beat
Author
Language
English
Description
Four young women allegedly witness a terrifying apparition while walking in the woods. The eyes of the country turn to a small Nottinghamshire town, where an inquiry is to be held. Four men must examine the substance of the girls' tales and decide their fate: a minister, a doctor, a magistrate, and Merritt, an investigator.
16) The London satyr
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1891 and London is simmering under an oppressive heatwave. The air is thick with tension and sexual repression. But another wave is about to rock the capital - one of morality - as Oliver Wheeler and the puritans of his London Vigilance Committee seek out perversion and aberatant behaviour in all its forms.
18) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848. Following a succession of defeats and failures in his professional and personal life, Branwell Bronte - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover - found himself back in Haworth Parsonage, foundering and directionless, and surrounded by his father and his three sisters, whose own pseudonymous successes - allegedly kept secret from him - were only then becoming apparent....
19) Salvage
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Quinn has been appointed by the government to conduct an audit on a remote area of land designated for a brand new model town. As Quinn arrives to meet the local developer, the surveillance cameras spin into overdrive, and soon he is immersed in a quagmire of corruption that will put his integrity to the ultimate test.
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
April 1945. While the Allied Forces administer the killing blow to Nazi Germany, at home London's teeming underworld of black marketeers, pimps, prostitutes, conmen and thieves prepare for the coming peace. But the man the newspapers call the English Monster, the self-procaimed Antichrist, Aleister Crowley, is making preparations for the future too: for his immortality. For Crowley's plan to work, he has to depend upon one of London's Most Wanted,...