1869, Sutherland, Scotland, and the Kildonan Gold Rush is in full swing. Then one of the panners is murdered, and strange marks left on stones where he is found. Brogar Finn and Sholto McKay are on hand to investigate the extent of the Gold Rush, and...
Peder lives at Castle Krumsky, an Academy for Gifted Children. When the castle is blown to smithereens it falls to Peder and his friends to lead the survivors to safety, and solve the mystery of what has happened, and why. The Academy teaches its pup...
1869, Sutherland, Scotland For years the people of this remote area of the Highlands have been hard done by; fifteen thousand of them cleared from the land earlier in the century to make way for sheep. Those from Kildonan went to Brora to work in the...
Staßburg, Germany The revolutions of 1848 are on the horizon. Europe is breaking up from within, each piece tugging away from the other. And the fate of one boy is intricately bound up in those turbulent events. Philbert is born with a monstrous def...
Scotland and Ireland 1798. Three people, two murders, one oath. Golo Eck is searching for the lost library of The Lynx, the first scientific society in Europe founded in 1603. His friend, Fergus, is sent over to Ireland on its trail, getting embroile...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Chop off my head and hawk it to the highest bidder. I'm the Anatomist's Dream, did you know? That's what they call me.' ... In a small salt-mining town, Philbert is born with a 'taupe', a disfigur...
19th century Scotland. Ardnamurchan Peninsula on the west coast is inhabited by mining folk and crofters eking out a living from the unforgiving land, turning a blind eye to the smugglers who plague the coast.Harold, Simmy's brother, pulls a bag of b...
1798. Three people, two brutal murders, and a single promise...Golo Eck is searching for the lost library of The Lynx, Europe's first scientific society,Fergus, his friend and fellow adventurer, is on the trail of it in Ireland, when he becomes embro...
Hestan Island, marooned in the Solway Firth, tethered to the mainland at low tide by a causeway called The Rack. Hestan is home to two men quietly living out their lives, until a boy is almost crushed to death in their tiny copper mine after which th...
Lukitt Bachman is waiting in his Lanterne de Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He’s had a complicated life: son of a Herrnhuter Brother thrown out of his sect; help-meet to a pastor; sailor; fisherman; boar-hunter; and stude...
A body is found in a Salt Hedge with a crate of purloined books. Ruan Peat is on the case.Hela believes she has the means to achieve Hungarian Independence, if only she can get her hands on it. No one will be allowed to stand in her way.Greta Finnert...