Robert Goddard Boeken

Architect Geoffrey Staddon is het huis Clouds Frome nooit vergeten. De bouw ervan was zijn eerste grote project, en tijdens de bouw werd hij bovendien verliefd op Consuela, de Braziliaanse vrouw van zijn opdrachtgever. Samen met Consuela vatte Geoffrey het plan op naar het buitenland te vertrekken, maar omwille van zijn carrière besloot hij op het laatste moment toch niet mee te gaan. Twaalf jaar later, in 1923, leest Geoffrey in de krant dat Consuela ervan wordt beschuldigd haar nichtje te hebben vergiftigd. Geoffrey kan zich niet voorstellen dat zijn voormalige geliefde hiertoe in staat is geweest en ook Consuela's dochter is overtuigd van haar onschuld. Geoffrey besluit alles opzij te zetten om te echte moordenaar op te sporen. Zijn zoektocht brengt hem terug naar het huis waar het allemaal begon: Clouds Frome.

Tijdens een bergwandeling op Rhodos verdwijnt Heather Mallender spoorloos. Haar metgezel Harry Barnett wordt ervan verdacht haar te hebben vermoord. Om zichzelf vrij te pleiten wil Barnett koste wat het kost de ware toedracht achterhalen. Zijn zoektocht brengt hem in Engeland, waar hij verstrikt raakt in een web van bedrog, verraad, liefde en brute moorden.

Chris Napier keert na jaren afwezigheid terug in zijn geboortedorp voor de bruiloft van zijn nichtje. Het feest vindt plaats in Tredower House, het voormalige huis van zijn avontuurlijke achteroom Joshua Carnoweth, die in 1947 werd vermoord. Iedereen was er destijds van overtuigd dat zijn erfgenaam Michael Lanyon opdracht tot de moord had gegeven. Het huwelijksfeest wordt wreed verstoord wanneer de zoon van Michael Lanyon, Nicky, plotseling opduikt en verkondigt dat zijn vader destijds ten onrechte voor de moord op Joshua tot de strop is veroordeeld. Chris wil zijn jeugdvriend Nicky graag helpen en besluit de oude moordzaak opnieuw te onderzoeken. Maar sommige familiegeheimen kunnen beter verborgen blijven

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron______________________________________Umiko Wada never[Bokinfo].

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection 'The world's greatest storyteller' THE GUARDIAN 'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' DAILY MAIL On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing. And, ultimately, the choice may not even be his to make.

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he breaks up with his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show. Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times and, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? And where is the woman he met in Vienna? Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard's most cunning to date.

Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument.

Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly and coldly reject him? Why, seventy years later, should people go to such lengths — even as far as murder — to prevent the truth from being revealed? Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected and unemployed, leaps at the chance to get to the island of Madeira and begin the hunt for a solution to the intriguing secret of Edwin Stafford's fall from grace. However, his seeming good fortune turns to nightmare as his investigation triggers a bizarre and violent train of events which remorselessly entangles him and those who believed they had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear... The stranger announces himself ast James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James Davenall, the man to whom Trenchard's wife Constance had been engaged, and who had committed suicide eleven years ago. Sir Hugo, James's younger brother, and his mother, Lady Catherine, refuse to recognise Norton and force Trenchard - who fears the loss of his wife's affections - into an uneasy alliance against him. But Trenchard must plumb the depths of his own despair before the dark secrets of the Davenall family can finally, shockingly, be revealed...

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as fifty years of secrets begin to unravel.