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The Majors by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back the guerilla forces of Ho Chi Minh. To some, the "secret" war in Indochina was the depth of folly... -
![Execution by S.J. Parris]()
Execution by S.J. Parris
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe sixth Tudor thriller featuring Giordano Bruno: heretic, philosopher and spy. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom.England, 1586.A TREASONOUS CONSPIRACYGiordano Bruno returns to England to bring shocking new intelligence to Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and spring Mary Queen of Scots from prison to take the English throne in her place...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison]()
The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation’s accounts...Categorized as:
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The Magdalene Reliquary by Gary McAvoy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA curious priest uncovers a mystifying secret... One that leads to a long-buried relic some will do anything to possess. Can he outwit adversaries who will stop at nothing to keep him from revealing an object that challenges history as we know it? Father Michael Dominic discovers a strangely constructed 13th-century puzzle hidden deep within the Vatican Secret Archives...Categorized as:
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![Conspiracy of Lies by Kathryn Gauci]()
Conspiracy of Lies by Kathryn Gauci
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of The Embroiderer comes a powerful account of one woman's struggle to balance her duty to her country and a love she knows will ultimately end in tragedy. 1940. With the Germans about to enter Paris, Claire Bouchard flees France for England. Two years later she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive and sent back into occupied France to work alongside the Resistance...Categorized as:
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Twice Dead by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor the first time: the FBI thrillers Riptide and Hemlock Bay together in one volume. Catherine Coulter's FBI series "twists at every turn" ( San Diego Union-Tribune ). In two of her most gripping books- Riptide and Hemlock Bay - FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock face dangerous threats in both their professional and personal lives...Categorized as:
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![The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul]()
The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler...Categorized as:
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![The Magdalene deception by Gary McAvoy, Will Damron]()
The Magdalene deception by Gary McAvoy, Will Damron
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA forbidden secret . . .The Church’s fate in the balance . . .Will a pair of amateur sleuths expose a truth that could upend the Christian world? Jesus’ resurrection is a cornerstone of Christian faith. But when a clue surfaces that hints at an alternate account, the ramifications stand to change Christianity forever... -
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Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham, as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . .Lucia’s fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: ‘He knows.’London, 1782... -
![The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEverywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure...Categorized as:
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![Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante]()
Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe brilliant new crime thriller from the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series Prime Suspect and author of Widows, now a major motion picture When WPC Jane Tennison is promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London’s Bow Street CID, she is immediately conflicted... -
![Kingdom of Darkness by Andy McDermott]()
Kingdom of Darkness by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHistory’s most sought after treasure is now mankind’s worst fear.In Los Angeles, a desperate man seeks out renowned archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase -- only to be gunned down in front of them. The assassin is soon identified as a ninety-year-old Nazi war criminal -- with the body of a healthy forty-year-old...Categorized as:
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Chasing Elizabeth by Jennifer Joy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe shows him the meaning of home.He gives her the adventure of a lifetime.Elizabeth Bennet longs for a break from the confines of Longbourn. Her morning rides with her best friend at Lucas Lodge are her only relief from the endless tedium of a lady’s never-changing routine... -
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Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning... -
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![Winter Work: A novel by Dan Fesperman]()
Winter Work: A novel by Dan Fesperman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall--from the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife On a chilly early morning walk on the wooded outskirts of Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow Stasi officer named Lothar, with a gunshot wound to the temple and a pistol in his right hand...Categorized as:
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![The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul]()
The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . .When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine...Categorized as:
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Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn ancient mystery becomes an all-too-real modern threat for Dirk Pitt and his colleagues, in an extraordinary adventure novel in one of suspense fiction's most beloved series.The murder of a team of U.N. scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off Detroit. An attack from tomb raiders on an archeological site along the Nile...Categorized as:
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The Lance by Alex Lukeman
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereAs Hitler's Germany faces final defeat, the Lance that pierced Christ's side – a weapon of legendary power – is spirited away to a secret base hidden in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Decades later the Lance is found, and a long-term plan to conquer America from within begins to unfold...Categorized as:
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Storytellers by Bjørn Larssen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn March 1920 Icelandic days are short and cold, but the nights are long. For most, on those nights, funny, sad, and dramatic stories are told around the fire. But there is nothing dramatic about Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith who barely manages to make ends meet. He knows nobody will remember his existence – they already don’t... -
![The Blooding by James McGee]()
The Blooding by James McGee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawkwood finds himself behind enemy lines in America during the war of 1812—for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Patrick O'Brien1812: Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned spy, is stranded behind enemy lines, in America, a country at war with Britain...Categorized as:
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Secrets of Lady Lucy by Rachel Ann Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s never easy keeping secrets… Only her desire to crush the Crown’s enemies could induce Lady Lucy Stanford to endure another Season. For years she has worked secretly for the Home Office, and she has come to London with one purpose: foil the attempted kidnapping of a highly valuable target, identity unknown. Inconveniently, Lord Harrington—Lucy’s brother and guardian—has other plans... -
![The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker]()
The Rule of Knowledge by Scott Baker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaith, history, science and love collide in this fast-paced action adventure.High school teacher Shaun Strickland is shocked when he receives a last-minute invitation from Cambridge University to deliver a paper on the relationship between space and time, something he has been studying for years. This could be the break he s been longing for... -
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The Impossible Virgin by Peter O'Donnell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings* THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING MODESTY BLAISE SERIES *'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there was Modesty Blaise' OBSERVERMischa Novikov had never even considered defecting from Russia until one day when his analysis of a satellite picture of central Africa revealed an almost inaccessible valley...Categorized as:
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![Imperial Scandal by Tracy Grant]()
Imperial Scandal by Tracy Grant
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmid the treachery of war and the whirl of revelry, no one is what they seem. . . Nights filled with lavish balls. . .lush, bucolic afternoons. . .. Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country's pleasures...Categorized as:
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![A Prayer for the Damned by Peter Tremayne]()
A Prayer for the Damned by Peter Tremayne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn February of 668 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Eadulf are about to get permanently married. As the sister to the King of Muman, Fidelma's marriage ceremony is a major event; the High King of Ireland, as well as other kings and major figures, are going to be in attendance... -
![An Indecent Invitation by Laura Trentham]()
An Indecent Invitation by Laura Trentham
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKeeping her safe is difficult, keeping a proper distance from her is downright impossible. Lady Lily Drummond understands only too well the danger of spy work. Her father, a preeminent master spy, has been missing for months, and her brother barely survived his final mission for the Crown...Categorized as:
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![Candlemoth by R.J. Ellory]()
Candlemoth by R.J. Ellory
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDaniel Ford has 30 days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan 12 years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's life has been entrusted...Categorized as:
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![SAS: State of Emergency by Andy McNab]()
SAS: State of Emergency by Andy McNab
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings3 AM on a frozen winter’s night, only hours after the results of the general election. A small craft skims the Thames closing in on London’s most exclusive new riverside hotel. On board is a lone assassin, his target - Britain’s most powerful new politician... -
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Revenger by Rory Clements
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings1592. England and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply... -
![Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor by Dick Couch, George Galdorisi]()
Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor by Dick Couch, George Galdorisi
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven has been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America — an easy day.But for a Navy SEAL, the only easy day was yesterday...Categorized as:
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![Hunter's Moon by Randy Wayne White]()
Hunter's Moon by Randy Wayne White
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDoc Ford faces his greatest challenge ever, in the stunning new novel by the New York Times-bestselling writer. Book after book, Randy Wayne White's audience and critical acclaim continue to grow...Categorized as:
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![The Last Queen of England by Steve Robinson]()
The Last Queen of England by Steve Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhile on a visit to London, American genealogist Jefferson Tayte’s old friend and colleague dies in his arms. Before long, Tayte and a truth-seeking historian, Professor Jean Summer, find themselves following a corpse-ridden trail that takes them to the Royal Society of London, circa 1708...Categorized as:
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![The Polish Officer by Alan Furst]()
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSeptember 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest... -
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The Lost Empress by Steve Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom acclaimed author Steve Robinson comes a bold new Jefferson Tayte mystery.On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route between Canada and England. The disaster saw a loss of life comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and yet her tragedy has been forgotten... -
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![The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever...Categorized as:
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![The Valhalla Prophecy by Andy McDermott]()
The Valhalla Prophecy by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNina and Eddie have been thinking about taking a break to start a family. The IHA has nothing major going on at the moment and Nina has been offered a large advance to write a book-it might be the perfect time for a sabbatical. But those dreams are quickly dashed when the new U.N...Categorized as:
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![The Medusa Stone by Jack Du Brul]()
The Medusa Stone by Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the tiny African nation of Eritrea, the American spy satellite Medusa has crashed but not before its sensors revealed an underground kimberlite pipeline, the telltale sign of a huge load of diamonds. The mine turns out to be King Solomon's Lost Mine, but with it is a tale of heartbreak---it was children who worked and died in the mine for 400 years, leading to many local myths of curses...Categorized as:
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![Red Mistress by Elizabeth Blackwell]()
Red Mistress by Elizabeth Blackwell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the wake of the Russian Revolution, a determined young woman breaks with her past to become a spy in 1920s Paris, where shadowy intrigues and a dangerous romance put her loyalty to the test.In the spring of 1914, Nadia Shulkina, the daughter of Russian aristocrats, looks toward a bright future... -
![The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott]()
The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing... -
![Lies We Never See by Michael Lindley]()
Lies We Never See by Michael Lindley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA heart-wrenching story of historical fiction and present day mystery and suspense from Amazon Kindle #1 author, Michael Lindley. Hanna Walsh’s husband is found murdered in Charleston, South Carolina. His failed land deal leaves her family and finances in ruins...Categorized as:
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![Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell, David Case]()
Killer's Wake by Bernard Cornwell, David Case
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnother taut nautical thriller from Bernard Cornwell, author of WILDTRACK and the Sharpe series. John Rossendale's home is the sea; in his 38-foot cutter, he is far away from his disagreeable, contentious family and his role as black sheep and heir to an impoverished earldom. Still, mystery and danger have a way of finding him even when he is far from any coast... -
![Shock Wave by Clive Cussler]()
Shock Wave by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe thirteenth adrenaline-filled Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler...Categorized as:
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![The Boy Who Stole from the Dead by Orest Stelmach, Tanya Eby]()
The Boy Who Stole from the Dead by Orest Stelmach, Tanya Eby
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBobby Kungenook, a mysterious seventeen-year-old hockey phenom from the Arctic Circle, is accused of murder in New York City. Bobby’s guardian, Nadia Tesla, knows his true identity. If his secret gets out, it could cost him his life, and sports journalist Lauren Ross is in hot pursuit of Bobby’s story...Categorized as:
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![Entwined by Lynda La Plante]()
Entwined by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo matter how cruelly twins are separated, their lives will always be entwined.In the newly liberated streets of modern Berlin two women, a pampered, beautiful Baroness, losing control of her mind, and a fearless wild animal trainer, facing the greatest challenge of her career, are drawn together by a series of tragic and extraordinary coincidences... -
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![Deadly Kisses by Brenda Joyce]()
Deadly Kisses by Brenda Joyce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I did not kill anyone, Francesca. And the fact that you wish to destroy evidence suggests you think me capable of murder." Called to the home of her fiancé Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill's curiosity is piqued... -
![No Way Out by Alan Jacobson]()
No Way Out by Alan Jacobson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a powerful firebomb destroys part of an art gallery in an exclusive London district, FBI Profiler Karen Vail is dispatched to England to work with Scotland Yard. But Vail soon discovers that at the heart of the bombing lies a 440-year-old manuscript that holds clues to England's past—with content is so explosive that a group of political radicals is bent on destroying it at all costs...Categorized as:
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![Three Tales from the World of Cotton Malone: The Balkan Escape, The Devil's Gold, and The Admiral's Mark by Steve Berry]()
Three Tales from the World of Cotton Malone: The Balkan Escape, The Devil's Gold, and The Admiral's Mark by Steve Berry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSteve Berry’s bestselling thrillers have mesmerized suspense fans around the world, but his novels alone can’t contain all the exciting exploits of death-defying agent Cotton Malone and his smart, sexy sidekick, Cassiopeia Vitt. Catch all the action between the blockbusters in this trio of suspenseful short stories that capture Cotton and Cassiopeia at their history-hunting, heart-stopping best...Categorized as:
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Strange Karma by Willow Healy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt 22,000 feet in the Himalayas a killer stalks. Don't look down!"Strange Karma," is a mystery/ thriller set in two 1920s England and Tibet, and the present-day Himalayan mountains.Mountain climber Cynthia Graham learns, to her peril, that some inheritances can trigger a deadly avalanche of events that reverberate through time...Categorized as:
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![Before the Killing by Marjory Kaptanoglu]()
Before the Killing by Marjory Kaptanoglu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA time-travel tale of love and murder…In the summer of 1973, 19-year-old Cassie returns to her home town on the Massachusetts coast after her first year away at college. The next day, her boyfriend, Julian, is implicated in a brutal killing.Seven years later, a freak occurrence gives Cassie the ability to travel through time without altering it... -
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Fall From Grace by David Ashton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRevolving around the Tay Bridge Disaster, this story begins with a break-in and murder at the Edinburgh home of Sir Thomas Bouch. Bouch is the egotistical builder of Tay Bridge. McLevy investigates, and finds the murderer, the dangerous Hercules Dunbar. But there is much, to unfold - murder, arson, sexual obsession and suicide...
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