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The Promised Land
I couldn’t believe so much could change in twenty years ... I was a foreigner in a place I once knew, a place that bred me, and for one brief moment I found myself pining once again for that plain eight-by-ten cell in Gwinett. At least there I knew where I was ...Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then, on one sunny day in July, his wife Miriam and their young son Ricky were savagely beaten to death. Bierce was convicted of the murder of his family. Languishing on Death Row twenty-three years later, he still has no memory of the incident.
| First British Edition Macmillan (2007) |
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| Paperback - Pan (2007) |
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The Seventh Sacrament
‘Let an old policeman tell you something ... There’s an entire underground city down there, almost as big as it was in Caesar’s day. There are houses and temples, entire streets. Some of them have been excavated. Some of them were just never fully filled with earth for some reason. I talked to a couple of the cavers Leo called in. They hero-worshipped Giorgio. The man had been to places the rest of them could only dream about.’Once Giorgio Bramante lived and breathed the world of Rome’s subterranean streets, an archaeology professor who was master of the hidden world beneath the earth, where religions far older than Christianity were practised in secret temples. Until the day he lost his young son. Alessio, to a group of students intent on recreating a centuries-old ritual - and offering up the seventh sacrament to a long-banished god. Alessio Bramante was never seen again.
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The Lizard's Bite
Life was never black and white in Italy ... Venice reminded him of a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go.Nic Costa’s and Gianni Peroni’s exile in Venice is finally drawing to a close. And the Roman detectives’ last case, apparently accidental fire that has claimed two lives, should be a straightforward affair.
| First British Edition Macmillan (2004) |
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The Villa of Mysteries
| First British Edition Macmillan (2003) |
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A Season for the Dead
Stefano’s left arm, the one holding the weapon, swept the table, swept everything on it, the precious volume of Apicius, her expensive notebook computer, down to the hard marble floor with a clatter. She was quiet, waiting, which* was, his eyes seemed to say, what he wanted. Then Stefano lifted up the bag to the height of the desk, turned it upside down, let the contents fall on the table and said, in a loud, commanding voice that was half crazy, half dead, `The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.’Whilst Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder is taking place in a nearby church. Then suddenly a crazed man . arrives in the Vatican carrying a bloodied bag. He walks up to Sara’s desk. He has something he would like her to see ...
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