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It’s 1924 and John Edward Haddock, a young man with a fine reputation as a merchant marine at home on the sea, is offered an opportunity to make a cool thousand dollars … one half of his annual salary. All he has to do is drive the Black Duck, the fastest powerboat in Narragansett Bay, out to Rum Row, just outside the three-mile territorial limit of the USA, pick up a load of contraband liquor (it’s Prohibition) and sneak it back ashore under the watchful eye of the U.S. Coast Guard patrols. John Edward, the forefather of the Haddock clan of Little Penwick, has a lot to lose.

Life in Little Penwick, Rhode Island, is finally feeling manageable for Police Chief Gus Haddock—until he's nearly run down while out for an early-morning jog, and days later someone blasts out the glass doors of his police station. Customs and Immigration confirm the worst: Janine Stone, the elusive Glitter Girl who slipped away at the end of Gus's last big case, has slipped back into the country.

Gus Haddock never expected to take over as chief of police in tiny Little Penwick, Rhode Island—the smallest town in the smallest state—while his father Julius sat in jail, framed by the corrupt state Attorney General. Fresh off three tours with the Army Rangers and battling PTSD, Gus dives into his first case: the mysterious disappearance of a local fishing boat captain and his 40-foot trawler on a freezing January night.

Finally out of jail after tangling with a corrupt state Attorney General, Julius Haddock—the retired police chief of tiny Little Penwick, Rhode Island—is drifting through his days with a brand-new private investigator's license burning a hole in his pocket. Bored and restless, he decides to crack open the town's oldest cold case: the thirty-year-old murder of a sixteen-year-old girl who pedaled off on her bike one summer morning to work at the local farm stand… and never arrived. They found her body the next day, but the evidence was thin then and thinner now.

Mark White appears to have it all as the head of a prestigious PR firm in Washington, DC. But in the aftermath of his wife’s sudden death, he is struggling to raise his eight-year-old son Colin. When he takes on a controversial new technology startup mid-scandal and weeks before their IPO, Mark’s world rapidly begins to unravel.

An ancient song composed by King David’s chief musician Asaph, discovered by the Teutonic Crusaders to the Holy Land, returned to Germany, then divided into four fragments and hidden to prevent the fearsome powers of God unleashed if the Song is ever played … This is the legend pursued by the 15-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach and his schoolmate Georg Erdmann in 1700 as they walk the 250 miles from their small town of Ohrdruf to the northern city of Lüneburg to join the St. Michael’s School choir.

In 1736 Leipzig, Cantor Johann Sebastian Bach is feeling oppressed—the city council ignores him, his students are unruly and unappreciative, and the head of the St. Thomas School wants to eliminate the musical curriculum entirely. Then, after an ugly incident at a wedding, his prize student, the First Prefect of his four choirs, disappears. As Bach and his secretary/cousin Elias search the city for the boy, it appears that the school head and the mayor may be in league.

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect the church’s newly constructed pipe organ, (based on an actual event in his life) Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his cousin and personal secretary Elias Bach (who serves as Dr. Watson to Bach’s Sherlock) discover that the pastor of the church may have murdered his young wife.

Bloomsbury presents England by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears, read by James Bartlett. A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Challenging, forensic, compelling' SATHNAM SANGHERA ‘Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England' SUNDAY TIMES ‘Wonderfully evocative...