Mark Mills

The death of a beautiful New York socialite whose body is pulled from the sea off the small town of Amagansett on the coast of Long Island was apparently accidental, but the new deputy police chief is not convinced. Set in the post-WW2 era this literary crime novel describes a community whose way of life is disappearing.

Tom Nash has rebuilt his life after a turbulent career in the Secret Intelligence Service. His past, though, is less willing to leave him behind. When a midnight intruder tries to kill him, Tom knows it is just a matter of time before another assassination attempt is made.

For the people of Malta in 1942, the British Army represent their only hope of defending their lone outpost in Nazi waters. It is Max Chadwick's job to reassure the islanders, but with the violence on the war-ravaged island escalating daily, he embarks on a private investigation hidden from the eyes of superiors, friends and the woman he loves.

In 1958 Adam Strickland travels to Tuscany to study a sixteenth-century garden at the Villa Docci. Fascinated by the Docci family, he realises that their wartime history is as intriguing as the history of the garden. What lay behind a killing at the Villa, and what secrets are still hidden? Richard & Judy Bookclub

Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton - a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy - finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity, or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding towards war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage 25 years ago.