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1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world’s nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. A horde of journalists, spies and opportunists have also gathered in the city, and the last thing the British diplomatic community needs at such a time is the mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation.

On ne sait jamais ce que le passé nous réserve. 1911. Geoffrey Staddon, jeune architecte plein d'élans et d'espoir, vient de concevoir une magnifique demeure, Clouds Frome. Et il est tombé amoureux fou de la femme de son commanditaire, Consuela Caswell, une jeune Brésilienne perdue dans un mariage de convenance. Alors qu'il lui a promis de s'enfuir avec elle, il l' abandonne à son triste sort, préférant se consacrer pleinement à ses ambitions professionnelles.

Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin.... Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. But the date of his death is surprising, and reveals that Captain John Hallows cannot possibly have been Leonora's real father.

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.

Fin des années 1990. Leonora Galloway entreprend un voyage en France avec sa fille. Toutes deux ont décidé d'aller à Thiepval, près d'Amiens, au Mémorial franco-britannique des soldats décédés durant la bataille de la Somme. Le père de Leonora est tombé au combat durant la Première Guerre mondiale, mais la date de sa mort gravée sur les murs du mémorial, le 30 avril 1916, pose problème. Leonora est en effet née près d'un an plus tard.

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he separates from his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous, only to hear her tell him on the telephone that she will not, after all, be coming. Then she vanishes from his life as mysteriously as she entered it. Who and where is the woman he met and fell in love with in Vienna?

The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States.

When Harry Barnett is informed that his son is in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain that there must be some mistake, since he does not have a son. But he soon discovers that he does. David Venning was a brilliant mathematician, and his tragic condition is taken to be the result of an accident or a suicide attempt.

Eldritch Swan er død. Det er i hvert fald hvad hans nevø Stephen tror, indtil Eldritch pludselig en dag dukker op efter at have tilbragt 36 år i et irsk fængsel. Han vil ikke fortælle hvorfor han har været fængslet, men insisterer på, at han er uskyldig.

For mange år siden stod kirurgen Edward Hammond og manglede penge til en dyr skilsmisse. Heldigvis fik han mulighed for at tjene en god slat ved - i al diskretion - at udføre en livsvigtig operation på den serbiske gangster Dragan Gazi. Men Dragan Gazi er en skidt fyr, og nu - tretten år efter - skal han stilles til ansvar for modbydelige krigsforbrydelser på Balkan ved Den Internationale Domstol i Haag. Og for at skaffe penge til at slippe ud af klemmen giver Gazi den stakkels Edward et ultimatum: Enten skaffer Edward ham de penge, Gazi har stukket til side under Balkankrigene.

Quinquagénaire alcoolique et désenchanté, Harry Barnett vit depuis de nombreuses années sur l'île de Rhodes, où il s'occupe de la villa d'un de ses amis, un homme politique anglais. Quand Heather Mallender arrive à la villa pour se remettre d'un drame personnel, Harry est vite attiré par la jeune femme. Mais, lors d'une balade en montagne, tout bascule : Heather disparaît sans laisser de traces et Harry est soupçonné par la police grecque de l'avoir assassinée.

Geoffrey Staddon turned his back on the best things in his life. He turned his back on the beautiful house Clouds Frome, his finest achievement as an architect. He turned his back on the woman he loved, Consuela Caswell, and who loved him in return. Twelve years later, amidst the tatters of his career and marriage, he is forced to contemplate the remorse and shame of his betrayal. But when he reads that Consuela has been charged with murder, he knows instinctively that she cannot be guilty....

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly 50 years later, his sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage. Her family are stunned by the crime - especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as 50 years of secrets begin to unravel.

One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later, the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady Louise Paxton - and to his horror, Timariot realises that this was the woman he met just hours before her death. A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a series of bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems.

England i begyndelsen af 1700-tallet. Efter at have måttet konstatere, at han er fallit, forsøger adelsmanden og børsspekulanten Sir Theodore Jansson af al magt at skaffe sig af med »den grønne bog«. Og han får den diskret sendt med en hemmelig kurér til Amsterdam. Bogen rummer nemlig beviser ikke blot på den økonomiske skandale, men i høj grad også på den svindel, der er foregået i firmaet, ja, på svindel, der rækker langt op i hierarkiet og vil være nok til at vælte den siddende monark!

Robin Timariot er EU-kommissær i Bruxelles. På en vandretur i England møder han en smuk kvinde, Louise Paxton - de udveksler et par ord, som han aldrig glemmer, men han tager ikke imod hendes tilbud om et lift i hendes bil. Senere læser han i avisen, at kvinden er blevet voldtaget og myrdet få timer efter deres korte møde. Robin kan ikke få kvinden ud af hovedet, og da han opfrodres til at tale med hendes datter siger han ja - og indvikles i en families edderkoppespind af løgn og bedrag.

Harry søger sandheden om en ukendt søn, der ligger i insulin-chok - måske uforskyldt, men i stedet for en løsning dukker flere mysterier op, og Harry befinder sig i et net af sammensværgelser.

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of One False Move by Robert Goddard, read by Fiona Hampton and Alistair Petrie. What value can be put on a human mind? How Joe Roberts does what he does is a mystery. He has a brain that seems able to outperform a computer. To a games company like...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear.