A Well-Earned Death"How can you lose money growing a crop everyone wants with labour that costs next to nothing?" In 1671 there are fortunes to be made in Barbados, owning slaves and planting sugar cane. But drought, floods, locusts and his own incompetence have brought Hubert Umfraville down and caused him to flee the island in the most humiliating fashion. Now back in England, he hopes to restore his fortunes through extortion. In Barbados he has discovered a secret

But as Haller knows

and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high

Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece

For fresh leaves are falling

true and powerful novels of our time

From the author: 'My father doesn't feature much in Running with Scissors

Hildegard of Meaux - sleuth

this is an accidental

When he sets out to recover it he discovers all its recent owners met violent deaths

Then an old friend

and a charming alcoholic

The island has a live volcano and