Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that...

“A city’s dark secret holds the key to the gates of hell”…. Tom Shaman, on a visit to Venice, finds himself immersed in a series of ritual killings. He teams up with his colleague and together they delve into...

My secret plan to move to Venice was ready. It was time to see if my wife would buy into the idea of leaving our home to live for an entire year in a foreign country. And thus the...

Spring 1938 The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time. Mathias and Johannes – fellow writers, cousins, and close as brothers – thrive within this creative group of friends. But when...

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily – she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who...

The Villa Triste functions as the Gestapo HQ in Florence 1940s. The central characters are 2 sisters, Isabella and Caterina. With the armistice everything changes. Both sisters become have become involved with the Partisans and it is something that...

Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Stevie’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a labourer not so far from his childhood...

At the end of the 13th century Scotland was suffering under the tyranny of the English and Edward Plantagenet. The eponymous hero swears to rid his land of their cruelty and to restore Robert the Bruce to the throne.

2012 Reprint of 1898 Edition. “The War of the Worlds” is a first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist’s adventures in London and the countryside southwest of London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895-1897, it is one...

You’ve had no sleep since the firefight last night. The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate. She says she has come to claim the body of her brother...