Our unnamed protagonist has agonized for weeks over whether to accept wealthy Frances Cavendish’s invitation. Doing so means returning to Cambridge in order to help select the recipients of the inaugural Cavendish Scholarship for disadvantaged students wishing to pursue their musical studies at the renowned university. Glad to have finally put those days behind him,…
Reporter Nell Fagan isn’t exactly down on her luck, but a good scoop would definitely put her back in control of her career after a combination of her own indiscretions and the influence of wealthy recluse Rachel Savernake put her on the outs with the editors of Fleet Street. As such, she’s staying under an…
Luke Daniels, a character from the Cotton Malone novels who works at the Magellan Billet with Malone, gets the spotlight in this co-authored thriller. He receives a call from an old friend, Jillian, in desperate need of his help, and Luke arrives to battle a team of operatives determined to kill her. Soon they are…
Hollywood in the silent era was famous for many things: craft and artistry, glamor and debauchery, champagne dreams come true, and the bitter salt tears of ruined lives. With film-making still in its infancy, movies and their makers came and went, sometimes leaving an indelible mark on the world’s imagination but just as often fading…
Prologue Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Friday, 8 October 1621 Today I am sentenced to swing. Before the sun rises, I will be taken from here to a place of execution and there, hanged by the neck until I am dead. My pretty white neck. Friends, I am innocent of the charge set against me.…
Moscow Exile initially unfolds as a fast romp through the exploits of British intelligence agents who played for Mother Russia. Intense high-level espionage takes place in Washington, D.C. in the late nineteen-forties, post-war years that encompassed the Red Scare and the McCarthy Hearings. Although it wasn’t much of a romp when aristocratic Englishmen Guy Burgess…
The wave came out of nowhere a few years back and swept over the suspense/thriller/horror market before a lot of readers realized what was happening. Back at the start, the term “psychological suspense” was often used to describe the books, but it didn’t take long before booksellers, readers and reviewers realized what was really going…
(A tip of the hat to Warren Clarke—1947-2014) Picture this: You have finished your novel, and as the euphoria evaporates, the publishers say, “How about a sequel?” By now the euphoria has been sucked into the stratosphere because … you haven’t the faintest idea what to write next. What does the honest writer do?…
What an extraordinarily absorbing historical mystery, filled with just as much swashbuckling derring-do as it is intellectual conundrums! Robert J. Lloyd draws from real figures and events of the 17th-century to frame his exciting tale of a young scientist seeking out the truth under the most perilous of circumstances. In 1679 London, Harry Hunt faces…
Isn’t it interesting how one event, simple in its origin, will lead to another? One might say it sets up a chain reaction. So it was that while researching a project, I came across a typewritten letter that led me on the road to write An Affair of Spies. In 1939, A. Einstein, of Old…
