DARSHAN by Irene Black
A young woman struggles through a morass of unsuitable relationships, involving betrayal, danger and heartbreak, in order to find her cultural identity. Her journey takes her from India to Britain to American and back to India. Is she destined to live her life on the fringes of the communities where she grew up? Or will she finally come to terms with who she is?
THORN IN THE FLESH by Anne Brooke
Kate Harris, a lecturer in her late thirties, is attacked in her Surrey home and left for dead. Continuing threats hinder her recovery, and these life changing events force her to journey into her past to search for the child she gave away. Can she overcome the demons of her own personal history before time runs out?
THE GAWAIN QUEST by Jay Margrave
Priedeux is a medieval hitman. He is sent to kill the writer of the poem, Gawain and the Green Knight, to stop further seditious texts against the King, Richard II. As he follows the clues in the poem, Priedeux finds himself questioning the very purpose of his vocation. Can he discover the identity of the mysterious author in time to stop rebellion and save his own life? And what will he report to his master, John of Gaunt?
THE MOON'S COMPLEXION by Irene Black
Bangalore, India 1991. Ashok Rao, a young doctor, has returned home from England to choose a bride. But who is the intriguing Englishwoman who seeks him out? Why is she afraid and what is the secret that binds them together? The lives of two strangers are turned upside down when they meet and the past comes to haunt them. The Moon's Complexion is a tale of love across cultural boundaries. It is also a breath-taking adventure tale played out in the mystical lands of Southern India and Sri Lanka and in the icy countryside of winter England.
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LUTHER'S AMBASSADORS by Jay Margrave
In this, the second of the Priedeux mysteries, we rediscover Tom Priedeux, now serving the young Anne Boleyn. However, Tom is more than just a servant; at different times, he is her mentor, her confidante and sometimes her critic. Anne has one overriding ambition: to reform the Catholic Church. The only way she can achieve her aim is to marry a powerful man and use her wiles to influence him to make the changes she wants. This man, of course, is Henry VIII. Priedeux helps her in this aim and when her schemes are going awry he is there to fight her battles; when her life is threatened, he saves her; when she needs a ally, he is there at her side. But for how long can he survive the political battles of the Court without himself becoming a target for powerful men?
'This is a good book, a story well told ... I love the subplot outlining Priedeux's background ...' (Rebecca Tope, Membership Secretary of the Crime Writers' Association)
THE NINE LIVES OF KIT MARLOWE by Jay Margrave
In the third book of the exciting Priedeux trilogy, jumping through history as a fictional character is allowed to do, Priedeux travels with Christopher Marlowe through Europe, after the latter's supposed death in Deptford.
