Product Description: Edwin James reaches the height of his professional career in law when, on the brink of being knighted, legal scandals and debt force him to flee England with his new bride and attempt a new career in America. He finds himself recruited into Colonel Lafayette Baker's Secret Detective Service investigating Fenian activity in New York's hell-hole, the Five Point...read more

Product Description: Naturally, most if not all of us want and crave for something better. It is all part of us if we want a bigger car, a better house, buying good things for the family. We keep hoping for more but, in order to get what you don’t have, you have got to do something you have never done before...read more

Product Description: As his rise in the legal profession accelerates, Edwin James seeks to further enhance his prospects by obtaining a seat in Parliament. However, James finds that he must first act as an election agent in what is quickly seen as the most corrupt election in mid-Victorian England...read more

Product Description: The murder of a pregnant girl in a Welsh mining valley, and the subsequent arrest in what the police consider an open and shut case, was a double blow to Taliesin Rees, who had been the local doctor for many years. Both accused and victim were his patients...read more

Product Description: Alan Fearnley stood apart from mourners at his brother's funeral, uncertain of his welcome in the Welsh valley after an absence of fifteen years. Alan was used to scrutinizing figures; now he was scrutinizing facts, for someone was claiming insistently that Jeff's death was no accident...read more

Product Description: Bored by his desk job, Arnold Landon welcomes the opportunity to join a group of criminal-hunters who specialise in tracing artefacts and looted antiques. Led by the formidable Carmela Cacciatore, Landon sets off on the trail of an ancient bronze statuette of Artemis the Huntress, part of a hoard looted first by the Nazis and then by Stalin...read more

In old age, Edwin James looks back over his scandalous life in the law and the theater. He recalls his rise to fame and fortune which begins as a debt-ridden counsel in the case arising from the Running Rein scandal of the 1844 Derby. Humiliated in court and blocked by the machinations of the Victorian Establishment he begins his hunt for the missing witness and the Derby winner which has been spirited away. Aided by ex-convict Ben Gully, he probes in the dark belly of the London underworld while at the same time trying to avoid his creditors. He is faced with a suicide and a murdered corpse hidden in the London sewers, before he seeks the final deadly truth in the foggy dockyards along the river, only to discover that the truth may not be all it seems, and that old scandals can rise up to engulf him.

Product Description: Robert Fanshaw, one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, was not expecting trouble on his visit to Burton Polytechnic until he found himself caught up in a student demonstration and the discovery of the body of the Principal's pretty secretary in the lift...read more

Product Description: When Eric Ward and Sharon Owen defend suspected serial killer Raymond Conroy, they win an acquittal on a technicality thus incurring the wrath of CI Charlie Spate. Ward has no desire to act further for Conroy when the man decides to remain in the north east...read more

Crime was the last thing Durham solicitor Frank Hales had ever expected to be embroiled in, yet from the moment he got the news that his senior partner had vanished after milking a trust fund, he was plunged into an unfamiliar world. He found his missing partner dead in a secret love-nest, and there were indications that the prostitute he had been associating with may have been murdered too. In an effort to save his firm, his career and his marriage, Frank engaged a private eye, but his troubles did not diminish and he realised he was being framed...

Asked to advise on the antiques collection of a mysterious widow, Arnold Landon enlists the aid of an old friend, Carmela Cacciatore of the Carabinieri Art Squad. He soon finds himself drawn into the investigation of an antiquities smuggling operation which leads to murder in La Rochelle, the involvement of the CIA and the hunt for an ancient religious manuscript looted from the Baghdad Museum after the fall of Saddam Hussein. And lurking in the background is the threatening figure of an assassin trained by SAVAK, the murderous secret service established by the Shah of Iran, the Peacock Prince. But it is in Northumberland that Arnold finally learns the truth and faces the deadly menace of the Shadowmaker.

Product Description: Eric Ward is caught up in the search for a mysterious, and allegedly cursed, statuette of Anubis, within which are documents that could change the course of the Middle Eastern peace process and challenge the legality of the State of Israel...read more

Product Description: Everything was going well for Ben South and his partner. With the signed contract for the Cornelius hotel chain in their pocket, their future looked bright. Then a letter arrived and overnight everything changed. Seven years earlier, South's young wife had died in Canada when her car skidded...read more

Product Description: As executor of Colonel Delamere’s estate, Eric Ward is required to deliver to the Foreign Office a sealed envelope and an Anubis statuette in the event of the Colonel’s death. But Delamere dies at the hands of burglars and the statuette, passed through the hands of the archaeologist Howard Carter and various wealthy English families, is taken...read more

Tyneside solicitor Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschel, an ex-professional footballer charged with drug dealing at a Newcastle racecourse. In managing to secure bail for his client, Eric precipitates another murder investigation, this time with connections stretching far outside Tyneside's borders. Eric soon finds himself having to protect a German journalist, Hannah Witt, who things the case is connected to her homeland. Could it have anything to do with the Stasi, or perhaps even the IRA? While defending Barschel, Eric manages to annoy one of the prosecuting witnesses, DCI Charlie Spate. Nevertheless, the two men find that they must work together to try and resolve the mess that they feel partly responsible for creating. Meanwhile, Spate is almost as obsessed with the charms of DE Elaine Start as he is with solving the case, but embarrassing revelations about his acquaintance with Romy Arendt, a prostitute, may threaten both his career and possible chance of romance. Both political mystery and emotional thriller, Death Squad is Roy Lewis latest addition to the hugely successful Eric Ward series.

Product Description: A surprising offer from a Chinese businessman leads archaeologist Arnold Landon into the world of a corrupt, centuries-old criminal organization known as the Syndicate of the Ghost Shadow. While the lives of two female colleagues are at risk, Arnold finds himself under the control of the Dragon Head himself...read more

Product Description: Newcastle-based lawyer Eric Ward is surprised when an important local shipping firm, Goldsteins, pay him a large retainer to do some work for them despite having their own in-house legal team. One of the Goldstein's ships, the SIERRA NOVA, is unable to leave the port because a crew member, Edwards, has been caught smuggling drugs - but he's been removed from the ship, and the voyage still can't go ahead...read more

Product Description: Solicitor Eric Ward's reluctant attendance at an annual dinner leads him to meet Ben Shaw, a merchant banker who seems to know an awful lot about him. Shaw tells Eric that Jason Sullivan QC - the reason Eric's marriage breakup - is involved in something big and it is up to Eric to find out what...read more

Attending a conference in Rome, archaeologist Arnold Landon inadvertently stumbles on a revenge-motivated murder in the Etruscan city of the dead and finds the case intersecting with that of Northumberland's DCI O'Connor, who is working to stop an international smuggling ring.

When the headless body of a child turns up in the Tyne River, Arnold Landon investigates the crime, suspicious of a connection to the occult, and his inquiries turn up evidence that a secretive network of pedophiles might be responsible.