Andrew Martin0.0 It's the sweltering summer of 1911, and one Friday evening a young aristocrat arrives into the custody of detective Jim Stringer, a man recently found guilty of murdering his father in the sleepy village of Adenwold. He warns Jim of another murder likely to happen in the same village - that of his brother, a reclusive intellectual. When Jim and his wife Lydia arrive at Adenwold they encounter a host of likely suspects and the intended victim, and suddenly Jim has one weekend in which to stop a murder and unravel a conspiracy of international dimensions...
К. Дж. Сэнсом4.5 Англия, 1543 год. В фонтане на территории Линкольнс-Инн, известной адвокатской палаты, найден труп Роджера Эллиарда, друга Мэтью Шардлейка - одного из лучших в Лондоне специалистов сыскного дела. Шардлейк по просьбе вдовы покойного начинает расследование, и тут неожиданно выясняется, что за несколько дней до этого было совершено аналогичное преступление. Убитым оказался доктор Пол Гарней, личный врач лорда Латимера, последнего мужа леди Кэтрин Парр, на которой собирается жениться ни кто иной, как Генрих VIII, король Англии...
Andrew Taylor0.0 Legend states the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square and left a murdered woman behind him. Formerly the site of a medieval palace, it is now, in 1934, a decaying north London cul-de-sac. In a lodging house resides a collection of tenants with equally colourful histories, including the sinister Samuel Serridge.
Kester Aspden0.0 A year after David Oluwale’s death, rumours that the Nigerian man had been abused by police led to a criminal investigation. This imaginative reconstruction of the life and death of this obscure man is an exposé of police racism in Britain.
