Death and the ArrowFifteen year old Tom helps his father run a print shop in London. When he and old Dr Harker hear of a curious murder in the City, with the victim pierced by an arrow and holding a card of "Death and the Arrow", they are intrigued. And as more victims are discovered, the mystery closes more tightly. London, 1715. The air is black with soot. The murky alleyways of the City are crowded with people from all walks of life. In the shadow of St Paul's

only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Fran

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas

confidence artist and trickster

"I decided that one style for one novel was a convention I resented most strongly: it was perhaps comparable to eating a meal in which each course had been cooked in the same manner

Marked out from the start by curious coincidence

the political order has reached some sort of balance

when a most influential corpse is found in a horse box at Newbury races

whose own family don't seem to enjoy the miraculous return to health enjoyed by the other patients

and the biggest surprise of all - the secret of the soldier in the wheatfield

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE

and most prized of all - the Golden Scarab

commissioned by the King of the Badgers after the defeat of the Badfort crowd at Crack House