April 1808: A storm sweeps across the islands of the Baltic Sea, destroying the village of Lower Slaughter as it goes. Into this ruined land comes missing-persons finder Whilbert Stroop, on the trail...

Lucca, City State for hundreds of years, keeper of secrets and relics, possessor of the Holy Face of Christ, has Napoleon's army at its gates, the emperor having declared himself King of All Italy. A...

1869, Sutherland, Scotland.There's a Gold Rush going on in the Glens of Suisgill and Kildonan. When representatives of the Pan European Mining Company arrive to investigate, one of the prospectors is...

19th-c Scotland. Hestan island, marooned in the Solway Firth, tethered to the mainland at low tide by a causeway called The Rack. Home to two men quietly living out their lives, until a boy is almost...

1798. Three people, two brutal murders, and a single promise... Golo Eck is searching for the lost library of The Lynx, Europe's first scientific society,Fergus, his friend and fellow adventurer, is on...

19th-c Scotland; Ardnamurchan Peninsula, inhabited by mining folk and crofters eking out a living from the unforgiving land, turning a blind eye to the smugglers who plague the coast. A bag of bones is...

Lukitt Bachmann is waiting in his Lanterne des Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He's had a complicated life: son of a Herrnhuter Brother thrown out of his sect; help-meet to a...

Germania, XIX secolo. Il piccolo Philbert Bedrossian vive un’infanzia molto sofferta: rifiutato e abbandonato dalla madre a causa del tumore che gli deturpa la testa, trova solo parziale conforto in un...

A body is found in a Salt Hedge with a crate of purloined books. Ruan Peat is on the case.Hela believes she has the means to achieve Hungarian Independence, if only she can get her hands on it. No one...

Astonishment Hall, a country estate in the Pennines full of extraordinary exhibitions, is truly a place of wonder. But when a valuable exhibit is stolen, it is only the first in a series of unpleasant...

The Island of Thanet, 1808. One man is pushed into a kiln of molten metal beneath the looming shadow of the Shot Tower, and another is dug up from the sandy bay beyond. Who they were, and why they died...