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Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction: 'ACTUALLY, I'M A MURDERER.' Set in the north-east of England in the seventies, the lives of three people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with round glasses, on the night train to Newcastle. By the...

An expedition is digging at Lukka Oasis in search of a lost civilisation. But when valuable gold coins are uncovered, the men are massacred by their Arab bearers, and only a woman escapes. When a party of three legionnaires decides to desert from Post D, each has his own good reason for doing so....

Noelle Rutherford would do anything for her young son, Gil. A fiercely independent woman recently widowed, Noelle is determined to raise Gil alone. After all, her late husband, Adam Rutherford, married her for love, which infuriated his aristocratic family. Gil is Noelle’s whole world, and she wi...

Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago, he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik e...

Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away. Her husband Benjamin, a linguist, is a conundrum. He has changed. Or has she? The stories and superstitions of her c...

Queenscliff, Victoria, 1951. It's a cold Monday morning. Midwinter. A deserted beach. No swimmers in sight. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered. Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born Cockney Jew, always destined to be a...

Nat, a 47-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a d...

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seeme...

Sunset Hall, a house-share for the old and unusual, is gearing up as energetically as its aged inhabitants can for Bernadette's big wedding day. However, with the RSVPs comes an anonymous note that threatens to cast a pall over the upcoming festivities. Agnes is in (somewhat begrudging) wedding p...