When evidence presented in court by Thomas Pitt leads to the execution of a distinguished soldier and archaeologist, the retaliation from the hanged man's influential friends is swift. The murderer was a member of the Inner Circle, a group of men whose power extends further than Pitt realised was possible, and, within days, he loses command of the Bow Street police station. To protect him from the Inner Circle's hatred, he is forced to leave his family to work undercover in the dangerously volatile East End.
A Booke of Days is the captivating story of a young French nobleman, Roger, Duke of Lunel, who leaves his home in Provence in the 11th century to join the forces that will attempt to recapture Jerusalem from its Turkish occupiers. Forced to leave his new wife by the sacred commitment of an armed pilgrimage, he is plagued by guilt over a secret sin from his past and his own religious doubt that arises during his mission. The holy crusade on which Roger embarks soon degenerates into a savage campaign dogged by betrayal, deceit and greed. Yet this was the greatest adventure of its time, where a hundred thousand medieval men who had previously never traveled much beyond their own villages undertook a journey halfway across the known world for the promise of salvation. Most would never see their homelands again. And for Roger, this greatest of all spiritual undertakings is an intensely human quest: a war of new and old ideas, a collision of cultures, an awakening prompted as much by slaughter as sanctity, a battle of the flesh as well as the spirit.
Despite Thomas Pitt's success in the Whitechapel case, the secretive Inner Circle prevent his returning to Bow Street police as Superintendent. Pitt's next task for Special Branch is to investigate Charles Voisy - the corrupt Inner Circle man Pitt defeated in court - who is standing for election as a Tory MP. Pitt must obtain information to stop Voisy's climb to political power. Then Pitt is ordered to Southampton Row, scene of the hideous murder of a spiritual medium. As the link between the spiritualist and political figures is revealed, the whispers of scandal grow louder. And with Charlotte in hiding for safety, Pitt must turn to his sister-in-law, Emily, to help him solve one of his most high-profile cases yet...
Las desgracias se acumulan en la vida de Claire, todo hay que decirlo. Justo el día que da a luz a su primer hijo, la abandona su marido, que ni siquiera tiene la delicadeza de irse con una mujer más delgada que ella. Con una niña recién nacida, unos kilos de más y el cuerpo ensanchado y deforme después del embarazo, Claire se ve obligada a iniciar una nueva vida, demasiado consciente de que no es ni mucho menos una sílfide. Sin embargo, en su extravagante familia irlandesa encontrará un buen paño de lágrimas, y entre la risa y el llanto emprenderá una meteórica recuperación, siendo ella la más sorprendida.
Ein mysteriöser Mordfall in der Sagrada Familia führt Inspektor Munárriz auf die Spur der Tempelritter und ihrer Geheimnisse. Eine tote Restauratorin und ein geheimnisvoller Code entblättern eine Geschichte, die bis zu Antonio Gaudí und einem gefährlichen Erbe reicht, das tödliche Konsequenzen hat.
