Noble BeastsA thing of beauty is a great temptation. It's the summer of 1858 and everyone who can has fled London. As a foul miasma hangs over the capital, Sir Edwin Landseer is toiling at a fever pitch. Because England needs lions, England expects lions, and fifteen years to finish a monument like Nelson's column is a disgrace. But as lions stalk the sculptor's alcohol fuelled nightmares, his dreams travel to the past. No longer an old man losing his grip on

This is a cracker

Turnglass House

Under the hot glare of the spotlights

Hammond and their squad of American terrorists – the so-called Ethan Allen Brigade – seize a shipment of Indonesian nuclear waste

His flight takes him from the unholy killing ground of Kongo to SS slave camps and on to war-torn Angola

but also a chilling demonstration of how monsters are made The Times

Book One of the Shadows & Crowns series

But as the murders escalate Harper and Levene find that they must work together if they are to find the killer

But things aren't all they're cracked up to be and soon Duffy worries he's trying to be bought

enraging and brilliant

But protect them from what

she moves to London and embraces life and love in the Roaring Twenties