Saul Reichlin

The Battle of the Lost Eagle saved Hadrian's Wall, but the new Roman governor of Britannia must stamp out the rebellion of the northern tribes or risk losing the province. Rampaging south with sword and flame under the command of their murderous chieftain Calgus, they have stretched his forces to the limit.

For Marcus - now simply Centurion Corvus of the 1st Tungrian cohort - the campaign has become doubly dangerous.

As reinforcements flood into Britannia, he is surrounded by new officers with no reason to protect him from the emperor's henchmen. While Marcus is training two centuries of Syrian archers to survive a barbarian charge and then take the fight back to their enemy, the new prefect of the 2nd Tungrians has discovered his secret.

Book 2 in the Empire series.

Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed. His death doesn’t even hit the headlines. But the case catches the attention of William Wisting’s journalist daughter, Line, and she decides to write a newspaper article. A portrait of a completely anonymous and obscure person whose death goes unremarked and unmourned...

On the coast of Vestfold Ove Bakkerud’s cottage is ransacked by burglars, and next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting is uneasy; the desperation he sees in this murder is troubling. Meanwhile, dead birds are dropping from the sky...

Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But someone is killing women. Women who bear a disturbing resemblance to Carol Jordan. And when the evidence begins to point in a disturbing direction, thinking the unthinkable seems the only possible answer. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.   Book 8 of series.

One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.

One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now. For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher. For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.

In Stavern, around midsummer, a severed left foot in a training shoe is washed up on the shore. Then another, and yet another. Altogether four left feet in the course of one week. Police Inspector William Wisting has many years of murder experience behind him, but he has never examined evidence like this. Four feet… from four different victims?

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. His joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them.

Since his mother’s disappearance, Hans Olofson has led an isolated life. When he loses his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, he decides to fulfil her dream: to visit the grave of a legendary missionary in Zambia. On reaching Africa, Hans is struck by its beauty and mystery, but he soon becomes embroiled in the issues of the local community. As relationships splinter and fray, Hans realises that his African dream is rapidly turning into a nightmare…

Florence, 1986. An inexplicable attack on a church fresco brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an art student, and Pino Fratelli, a semi-retired detective who longs to be back in the field. Their investigation leads them to the secret society that underpins the city: an elite underworld of excess, violence and desire.

The Roman Army has vanquished the rebel tribes’ alliance in North Britannia. The survivors lie in wait, plotting revenge…

But the new Roman leader will not let them rest. He forms an audacious plan to capture the Selgovaes' fortress of spears, and return it to the hands of a trusted ally.

Marcus Aquila - burning for revenge on an enemy army that slaughtered one of his best friends - is part of the select group of infantry chosen to go north and take the fort before the rebel army can reach it.

But he is just a few days ahead of two of the emperor's agents, sent from Rome to kill him. Pitiless assassins who will stop at nothing to silence him, one and for all.

Book 3 in the Empire series.

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves. Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series.

Salander is plotting her revenge against the man who tried to kill her and the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in intensive care and is set to face trial for three murders. Can she prove her innocence? X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

Lisbeth Salander's mentor Holger Palmgren is dead, and she has been gone from Stockholm since his funeral. All summer, Mikael Blomkvist has been plagued by the fear that Salander's enemies will come after her. He should, perhaps, be more concerned for himself... For the girl with the dragon tattoo, the personal is always political - and ultimately deadly.

Two journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police and uses all his resources to prove Salander's innocence. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

Confined to the secure unit of a women's prison, Lisbeth Salander knows she is coming closer to solving the mysteries of her early life and feels the deadly influence exerted by her twin sister. Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

August, 1942. North Africa. When the commander of the Eighth Army, General Gott, is killed, it's clear that foul play is at work. Jack Tanner, recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital, receives a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action. But in the murky world of deceit and murder he must somehow discover who to trust in the cat-and-mouse world of counter-espionage before it's too late...

After an explosive case that forced Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to reassess everything they thought they knew about right and wrong, both are dealing with the fallout in their own separate ways. But when a shocking discovery is made on a construction site, and skeletal remains are found to belong to a killer who is supposedly alive and in prison, suddenly, Tony and Carol are brought into each other's orbit once again…   Book 11 of series.

Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway’s most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified, he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.

September, 1356. Poitiers. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy.
On the French side, the King and his son, the Dauphin. With 12,000 knights.

And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.

As rapacious English mercenaries plunder a country already ravaged by plague, and the peasantry take violent revenge against the French knights who have failed to protect them, is chivalry any more than a boyish fantasy?

Book 1 in the Chivalry series.

After four years behind bars, notorious serial killer Tom Kerr is ready to talk. And Chief Inspector William Wisting is waiting to listen.

Kerr has finally agreed to lead the police to his final victim's grave. But the expedition goes horribly wrong after his escape deep into the Norwegian forest. Wisting must launch a frantic search to find this cold-blooded killer before he strikes again. But the body of another woman, killed weeks before, has been found. Murdered in the same way as Kerr's victims.

Is there a copycat killer on the loose? Has Kerr become a twisted role model for a second killer? And, if so, what might happen if master and apprentice unite? As the clock counts down to the next murder, Wisting must put everything on the line to stop a terrifying evil before it strikes again.

When single women start to disappear from weddings, a pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is luring the women away, only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan are called upon to investigate but this may be the toughest case they’ve ever had to face. Contains graphic violence.  Book 10 of series.

Jürgen Klopp is the charismatic German manager who single-handedly took Borussia Dortmund from nowhere to the Champions League final. In 2019, Klopp cemented his name in the history books by returning Liverpool to Champions League glory. Here is the definitive story of what makes Liverpool's saviour tick and discovers just how Klopp has managed to turn around the fortunes of a sleeping giant in a few short years.

A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home… X rated, contains graphic violence.  Book 3 of series.

As Marcus Tribulus Corvus, centurion of the second Tungrian auxiliary cohort, he leads his men from Hadrian's Wall to the Tungrians' original home in Germania Inferior. There he finds a very different world from the turbulent British frontier - but one with its own dangers.

Tungrorum, the centre of a once-prosperous farming province, a city already brought low by the ravages of the eastern plague that has swept through the empire, is now threatened by an outbreak of brutally violent robbery. A bandit chieftain called Obduro, his identity always hidden behind an iron cavalry helmet, is robbing and killing with impunity. And now he has moved beyond mere theft and threatens to destabilize the whole northern frontier of the empire.…

 Book 4 in the Empire series.

Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker was a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Here, Julian Barnes brilliantly tells the story of the Belle Epoque through the eyes of a man who knew the writers, thinkers, aristocrats and actors of the day.

Four men have been found mutilated and tortured. As fear grips the city, the police turn to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for a profile of the killer. But then Tony becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills, where he has to use every ounce of his professional nerve to survive. Book 1 of series.

CONTENT WARNING: contains scenes of a sexual nature

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. From 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer. Gordievsky’s autobiography paints the most graphic picture yet of the paranoia and incompetence, intrigues and sheer nastiness of the all-encompassing and sometimes ridiculous KGB.

April 1940: Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norway. Sergeant Jack Tanner, of the British 148th Brigade and his patrol are left stranded in the mountains in the chaos of retreat. Trying to re-join their unit, it quickly becomes clear that the small band of fugitives can rely on no one but themselves... Book 1 of the series.

When Sofie Lund moves into the house she inherited from her grandfather, she has such painful memories that she has every trace of the old man removed, all but a locked safe. Inside the safe, Sofie finds something shocking that will also become crucial evidence in a case that has plagued Inspector William Wisting for a long time...

Simon Cooper's close relationship with otters has given him a unique insight into their life, particularly Kuschta, the central character to this story. Here Simon interweaves Kuschta’s personal story with the natural history of the otter.

On 24 June 1995, at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela stepped onto a rugby pitch and, in front of an audience of millions worldwide, a new era for South Africa began. This book tells the extraordinary story of how that moment became possible, tracing Mandela's history from Robben Island to Ellis Park.

Wisting is back with his most gripping case yet. In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder. But twenty years later William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests the wrong man was convicted for Tone's death and the real murderer is still out there, and could kill again. . .

There is one serial killer who has shaped police profiler Tony Hill's life. A killer who has the power to chill him to the bone: Jacko Vance. And now he is back, focused on wreaking revenge. Tony doesn't know when Jacko will strike, or where. All he knows is that Jacko will cause him to feel fear like he has never known before... X rated, contains graphic violence.  Book 7 of series.

Building work in the expanding city of Reykjavík uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and detective Erlendur and his team hope this is a missing person scenario, perhaps someone who was lost in the snow decades ago. But the case is not that simple… Contains violent scenes which some might find disturbing.

When the body of an Australian backpacker is found in Spain, an online group of amateur true crime sleuths springs up around the world, attempting to solve the mystery of her death. Foremost on the message boards is Astria, a young Norwegian woman whose feverish pursuit takes her closer than anyone to solving the case. But just as she makes her claim of unravelling the mystery, she goes offline.

No one in the group has heard from her since. When William Wisting is sent to investigate, he is plunged deep into a fascinating world of unorthodox investigators, whose connections are as vague and varied as their abilities. But in a dangerous case where nothing is as it seems, these online detectives may be the best hope he has for solving the mystery - before another victim falls...