10 | Peter Diamond, British detective extraordinaire, must dig deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous and scandalous icons: Richard “Beau” Nash, who might be the victim of a centuries old murder. |  |
9 | Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies’ man. He is also a Jew. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to work in the privileged position of tätowierer – the tattooist – to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young woman, Gita, who steals his heart at first glance. His life given new purpose, Lale does his best through the struggle and suffering to use his position for good. |  |
8 | Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in Cnothan. He told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He accused Hamish of having dyed his fiery red hair. Voices saying, “I could kill that man,” could be heard. And someone did. Facing a bewildering array of suspects, can Hamish find the killer on his own. |  |
7 | Harry Rawlins had been masterminding robberies for 20 years. The hijack of a security van would bring the gang thousands, but the job went wrong and Harry and his team were killed. Harry’s widow, Dolly, had three options. She could hand over Harry’s ledgers to the police. She could hand them over to a bunch of thugs. Or she could take the business over. |  |
6 | Jaxie dreads going home. His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. There’s just one person left in the world who can understand him and what he dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt. |  |
5 | During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. |  |
4 | A reworking of Sophocles’ Antigone, it opens in a Heathrow interrogation suite, as Isma heads for the US to resume her studies after they were interrupted by her mother’s death. But when she bumps into the son of the British home secretary in a Massachusetts cafe, a chain of events is unleashed that ends in tragedy. |  |
3 | Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been happily married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. But when Joe is summoned to a hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William’s bedside, covered in his blood? Is she a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer? |  |
2 | Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare. |  |
1 | Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised by the appearance of a friend of his wife’s, fearful that her son is using drugs and hopeful Brunetti can somehow intervene. When the woman’s husband, is found unconscious and with a serious brain injury at the foot of a bridge in Venice after midnight, Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy’s behavior. But the truth, as Brunetti has experienced so often, is not straightforward. |  |
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