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Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:54:25 +0200

The Diplomat's Wife

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:56:34 +0300

TO LOVE, HONOUR, AND BETRAY...
'One of our finest thriller writers.' Daily Mail
1936: Devastated by the death of her beloved brother Hugh, Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by wholeheartedly embracing his dreams of a communist revolution. But when she marries an ambitious diplomat, she must leave her ideals behind and live within the confines of embassy life in Paris and Nazi Berlin. Then one of Hugh's old comrades reappears, asking her to report on her philandering husband, and her loyalties are torn.
1979: Emma's grandson, Phil, dreams of a gap-year tour of Cold War Europe, but is nowhere near being able to fund it. So when his beloved grandmother determines to make one last trip to the places she lived as a young diplomatic wife, and to try to solve a mystery that has haunted her since the war, he jumps at the chance to accompany her. But their journey takes them to darker, more dangerous places than either of them could ever have imagined...

Fire & Ice 02.5 - Edge of Nowhere

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:32:09 +0200

A novella from the Number 1 bestselling author Michael Ridpath Iceland, midwinter: the days are fleeting, the nights endless and detective Magnus Jonson has been sent to an isolated fishing village in the West Fjords to investigate the possible homicide of a road construction worker. Ringed by steep mountains, this bleak village is cut off from the rest of Iceland and from the modern world. The locals are adamant that Iceland's legendary huldufólk - hidden people - had a hand in the death. Magnus finds their superstition suspicious... As he digs deeper, Magnus discovers that the victim was not a popular man, leading him to suspect that other, more human, passions are at work...

On the Edge

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:33:51 +0200

Jean-Luc Martel wants to become the greatest hedge fund manager of his generation and “the man who broke the euro”. This novel, written in 2005, anticipates the break up of the euro at the hands of inflexible monetary policy and aggressive speculators. This is the first of Ridpath’s financial thrillers to feature Alex Calder.

Traitor's Gate

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:33:55 +0200

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the roar of tanks through empty streets; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Franco's bloody insurrection taught this Englishman all about hell.Arriving in his mother's country, the now Nazi Germany, Conrad is sick at heart. Even Berlin - infamous haven of decadence and vice - salutes fascism. Himmler's black-shirted troops rule the city, and every German arm bears a Swastika. But does every German heart belong to Hitler?When Conrad is arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of spying, he is rescued by Theo, an old friend from university, now a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht. Together they are drawn into a world of danger and deceit, of plots, paranoia and intrigue where the brave few are united by a single ambition: to free the fatherland from the Führer.

66° North

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:32:03 +0200

The Wanderer

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:32:10 +0200

From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing."Michael Ridpath is trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best." PETER JAMESIceland, 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern Iceland, Magnus Jonson, newly returned to the Reykjavík police force, is called in to investigate. At the scene, he finds a stunned TV crew, there to film a documentary on the life of the legendary Viking, Gudrid the Wanderer. Magnus quickly begins to suspect that there may be more links to the murdered woman than anyone in the film crew will acknowledge. As jealousies come to the surface, new tensions replace old friendships, and history begins to rewrite itself, a shocking second murder leads Magnus to question everything he thought he knew...

Meltwater

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:32:08 +0200

Trading Reality

Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:32:04 +0200

Fatal Error

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:32:09 +0200

The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for those who think big. So when David Lane - a quiet, cautious banker - is invited by his old friend Guy Jourdan to help start up ninetyminutes.com, he decides that for once he will do something daring, something dangerous. If only he’d realised quite how dangerous. Because Guy falls out with Tony Jourdan, his father and their biggest investor, bringing the company close to collapse. Then Tony is murdered - and David’s rollercoaster ride into danger and disaster begins…

Sea of Stone

Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:33:47 +0200

Ollie and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised on a remote farmstead in Iceland, both brothers had to endure brutal violence at the hands of their grandfather. Now, two decades later, the past has returned to haunt them both. When Constable Páll Gylfason gets a dispatch call to investigate a suspected homicide on a farmstead, he is surprised to find that Sergeant Magnus Jonson is already at the scene. Magnus identifies the dead man as his estranged grandfather. As Páll begins to review the crime scene it becomes apparent that forensic evidence has been tampered with and that Magnus's version of events doesn't add up. Before long, Magnus is arrested for the murder of his grandfather.When it emerges that his younger brother, Ollie, is in Iceland after two decades in America, Páll begins to think that Magnus may not be the only family member in the frame for murder...

Free to Trade

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:33:56 +0200

Description: Free To Trade was Michael Ridpath’s first financial thriller. It was translated into 33 languages and stayed at No 2 in the British bestseller lists for three months. It features an early version of a CDO, or Collateralised Debt Obligation, the financial instrument that was later to blow up the banking system.

See No Evil

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:33:53 +0200

When Kim, an old college friend, pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit he is drawn once more into the shady dealings of the City investment bank Bloomfield Weiss. For Kim is married to Todd van Zyl, son of a South African newspaper tycoon. Todd wants Alex’s help to investigate the murder of his mother, shot at a game reserve near Cape Town eighteen years ago. Todd has always believed his mother was killed by guerillas - but the recent discovery of a letter written by her shortly before her death suggests a crime much closer to home. And it seems an old enemy of Alex at Bloomfield Weiss holds the key to a mystery that will have deadly repercussions.

Where the Shadows Lie fai-1

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:49:54 +0200