Diamond SolitairePeter Diamond, ex CID and notoriously difficult to work with, is sacked from his latest job as a security guard in Harrods. Doggedly he turns his sleuthing skills to unravelling the mystery of a little Japanese girl abandoned in London. Naomi, as she is known, exhibits the classic symptoms of an autistic child. Diamond regards her first as a challenge and soon as someone he cares passionately about, and devotes himself to communicating with the child.

he is swiftly removed from the project

000 civilians

A Fine/Fine copy

which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt

an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals

Based on a true story

irresistible romance

it appears events have spiralled out of her control

who has helped many Jews escape through Gibraltar

She and her mother would be climbing the stairs

The UK publication of these books marks the arrival of a startling new voice in the thriller marketplace

The twelfth Redwall story