He may be behind bars, but Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, bequeathing his evil legacy to a student all too diligent - and all too deadly. A year has passed since the capture of the Surgeon, serial killer Warren Hoyt, yet the memory of his brutal crimes continues to haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Now she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on well-to-do couples. For Rizzoli the death scenes have a horrifying air of familiarity, especially when she realizes that this new killer is copying one obscure element from Warren Hoyt's crimes. A new complication arises as a federal investigator from Washington joins the case. Again and again, Rizzoli clashes with Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who shows up at every crime scene. He knows something about this killer, something so politically explosive that he cannot reveal it to her. Then Warren Hoyt makes a brilliant and bloody escape from custody. Suddenly there is not one hunter on the loose, but two. And they are united, a pair of blood brothers who share grotesque appetites and a combined genius. They have joined forces to stalk the most challenging prey of all, the very woman who now hunts them . . .

An 18th century who-dunnit from the bestselling author of The Arcanum and The Moneymaker

It is New Year's Day 1755 and Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman to the famous cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, finds himself drawn into a chilling affair. While working at the country home of Lord Montfort, Nathaniel discovers his patron shot dead in his magnificent new library. The conclusion is obvious: Montfort burdened with gambling debts and recently possessed of a melancholic nature, must have taken his own life.
Nathaniel, however, is not convinced. The gun near Montfort's hand suggests suicide, but what of the blood on the windowsill and the confusion of footprints on the library floor? And there is another strange detail: Lord Montfort was found clutching a small and elaborately carved box of grenadillo wood. Does the answer to this most baffling of mysteries lie within this unusual keepsake?
No sooner has Nathaniel been set up as a most unlikely investigator than another body is found, frozen and cruelly mutilated. Nathaniel's detachment is shattered. He knows the victim well - but what was he doing on Montfort's country estate? Nathaniel's investigation will take him from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the slums of Fleet Street and the archives of London's Foundling Hospital, where the identity of a child abandoned twenty years ago may hold the key to the grenadillo box. But someone has already killed to keep this secret and each step Nathaniel takes on his journey is a step further into danger.

.A powerful fiction début, The Grenadillo Box is a gripping detective story as intricately crafted as a Chippendale cabinet of curiosities. Janet Gleeson has recreated a vibrant eighteenth-century England rich in period detail. The bustling workshop of Thomas Chippendale and the intrigues of Georgian society provide the vivid backdrop to this compelling murder mystery

Another compelling murder mystery set in the eighteenth century from the acclaimed author of The Grenadillo Box.

It is summer in 1795 and the renowned artist Joshua Pope, eager to escape London, accepts a commission to paint a wedding portrait for the well-to-do Herbert Bentnick and his betrothed, Sabine Mercier.
Astley, Bentnick's country house, is famous for its verdant gardens designed by the master landscape artist Capability Brown, and Joshua learns that his patrons are avid horticulturalists. Sabine Mercier, who has lived in the Indies, is an expert in growing pineapples, the fruit of choice at the grandest dinner parties and an inspiration to artists and craftsmen.
And it is while tending these exotic plants in the conservatory at Astley that Sabine stumbles across the body. Both puzzled and outraged by the lack of concern about this bizarre death, Joshua feels duty bound to investigate? Why do Bentnick's children regard their future stepmother with suspicion and fear? And what is the connection between Sabine's own daughter and the dead man?
And when Joshua's implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a valuable emerald necklace, he finds himself fighting not only to clear his name, but also to stay alive...

Janet Gleeson was born in Sri Lanka, where her father was a tea planter. After taking a degree in History of Art and English she joined Sotheby's, and later worked for Bonhams Auctioneers. In 1991 she joined Reed Books, where she was responsible for devising and writing Miller's Antiques and Collectibles. She is the author of the Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellers The Arcanum and The Moneymaker. She is also the author of three novels, The Grenadillo Box, The Serpent in the Garden and The Thief-Taker.

Matthew Hervey and the Sixth Light Dragoons lay siege to the legendary fortress of Bhurtpoor in Allan Mallinson's most exciting novel yet.

The year is 1824; the Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India, and the talk in the officer's mess is of war. Border skirmishes with the Burmese are becoming more common and across the country in Rajputana, a dispute over succession sends war fever sweeping through the provinces