DarkhouseAlex Barclay EVERYTHING YOU NEVER EXPECTED From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond. In 1985 in a North Texas backwater, two teenage boys made a chilling pact that would unite them forever in a dark and twisted loyalty. Now one lies dead. And the man responsible is going to pay. When a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and moves with his wife and son to a quiet

Colonel Ellello has four wives

With would-be lover Nathan Keyte and unlikely new friend Nicholas Wildmoor

But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer

A killer is stalking young lovers

That is until eyes open

Risking death and disgrace

the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers

But as conspiracies unfold

The year is 1471

their elven homeland

The Shore is a mesmerising

and Mather is not his only enemy