The HistorianLate one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is

his sentence served

and Simenon has once again created a full

the Riviera and the Swiss Alps

As their holiday unfolds

A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle

this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus

No one guesses that we are nightspinners

against an army of darkness

The Quiet Night In

But when drought threatens all she and her community hold dear

albeit moderated by her ship's instruments

Cecilia had packed up and left her family