Tim Bruce

During the First World War a military execution in France is a key event in this story of duty, loyalty and love. Far away in north-east England orphaned Joshua is led into the world of a wounded Army officer, an army deserter and Dolly Weston, three people he comes to admire and love.

London, 1385. John Gower, part-time poet and full-time trader in information, is given a task - to track down a missing book. It should be easy for a man of Gower’s talents. But what Gower does not know is that this book has already caused one murder, and that its contents could destroy his life.

Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading Mafioso, has turned his back on the family business, and has joined the Rome police force. But when Scamarcio is handed a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high-profile Italian politician, and told to ‘deal with it’, he knows he’s in for trouble..

Eric Ward, solicitor, is in search of missing executive Harry Saughton. A body washed ashore in Spain leads Eric to Berwick, and another murder.

Blade is a 14-year-old boy with a mysterious past, who is living on the streets. After suffering a beating by a local gang he finds himself on the run from a group of mysterious armed men.

While searching for a burial chamber near Salisbury a man dies violently. A manuscript has disappeared but does this have anything to do with the murder?