The Shadows of LondonFrom the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No. 1 Sunday Times best seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novel London 1671 The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a mans brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary

which reveals the stagnant state of our oldest British colonies and contrasts it with the more sophisticated squalor of their French neighbour

It is also a poignant account of the frailty of human consciousness

A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as the television series The Wire

sinister cults and disturbing secret lives

Perry Mason is caught in the middle

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a colonel of the KGB

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female agency and the complexities of complicity

she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria

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Who better to come to her rescue than her oldest friend