White Sands

"They want him dead - 13 year old, bearer of a lethal secret. A plane crashes,carrying a cargo of cocaine-the pilot dead,no witnesses,except a boy fishing for lobster.The boy buries the cocaine,terror keeps him silent. So begins Simon Gandolfi's exceptional thriller.Set in the Caribbean,White Sands is full of extraordinary characters:Jacket Bride,the thirteen-year-old boy with a fantastic dream in his heart,and a lethal secret in his head.Skelley,the island police chief with an implacable loathing for drug runners.Charity,the formidable schoolteacher. And ex-British intelligence agent Trent,who leaves his catamaran Goldne Girl to help in an operation where one person alone holds the key:a child with an adult secret,hunted for his life. "

Unholy Trinity

"A taut and serpentine thriller in the tradition of Robert Harris, in which the eternal city is as much a character as the people who inhabit it.

Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London daily, is intrigued by the brutal murder of a left wing priest, particularly when he discovers that an emissary from the Vatican had cleared his apartment of papers when his body was discovered but before the police were called. He turns this piece of information over to the investigating magistrate, Elena Fiorini, who inadvertently reveals to him that she is under pressure from her superiors not to pry too deeply into the motives for the killing. Such pressure only increases both Elena's and Chapman's desire to find out precisely what happened and why, a quest which leads them into the bowels of the Vatican's archives, to a clandestine meeting of a banned political party and back to the last days of Mussolini's dictatorship, when people changed their identities but only pretended to shift their allegiances.

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Undertow

"On the surface, James Sawday's life couldn't be better. But when his editor sends him to a seedy seaside town to cover a murder - the third attack of a serial killer who specializes in chopping off the hands victims' hands - he is sucked back into a world he's tried all his adult life to forget.

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Undercurrents

"Sometimes the answer isn