When the body of a middle-aged woman is found frozen beside a canal towpath it looks like a simple c..

A police officer finds a badly injured man lying in a street in the centre of York in the early hour..

St Petersburg 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin t..

Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay is amongst just a handful of men picked up when his ship is torpedoed. U..

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Among the coral outcrops of the island of Rota in the Marianas Island off the Philippines lies the w..

The sleepy Sussex village of Lakehurst is abuzz with news of the arrival of the new owner of Abbotâ€..

Having sent his last wife to the block the tyrannical Henry VIII sets his lustful sights upon an inn..

The Roman House is a sweeping saga which covers the lives of a family from 1898 until the 1970s. The..

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

Murder is afoot among the footmen of Britain's Royal Household: a servant girl Amy Macpherson has be..

Having lost her mother at a young age Maria Conti is close to her father Leo who owns an Italian res..

Summer 1939. The de Lacey family believe they are ready for the changes the war will bring. Elizabet..

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota Jack Reacher has fi..

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