St Benjamin’s Museum of Pathology is the greatest of its kind. Any death occurring within its walls would have created ripples within the academic world, but the death of Nikki Exner is far from being ordinary. Raped, and then grotesquely executed, her theatrical murder horrifies everyone. John Eisenmenger, a former forensic pathologist, finds himself dragged unwillingly into the Exner case, despite his desire to forget the awfulness he has had to endure in his past professional life. The results of the second autopsy just don’t add up to the findings of the first. Teaming up with solicitor Helena Flemming – who has her own reasons for wanting to prove the police wrong – Eisenmenger sets out to discover the truth. And as they progress in the investigation they find there is much more at stake than uncovering the identity of a murderer: there are scores to be settled, demons to be exorcised, and, not least, vengeance to be taken.

Risking winter storms and German torpedoes, the Emersons are heading for Egypt once again: Amelia, Emerson, their son Ramses and his wife Nefret. Emerson is counting on a long season of excavation without distractions but this proves to be a forlorn hope. Yet again they unearth a dead body in a looted tomb - not a mummified one though, this one is only too fresh, and it leads the clan on a search for the man who has threatened them with death if they pursue the excavations. If that wasn't distraction enough, Nefret reveals a secret she has kept hidden: there is reason to believe that Sethos, master criminal and spy may be helping the enemy. It's up to the Emersons to find out, and either prove his innocence - or prevent him from betraying Britain's plans to take Jerusalem and win the war in the Middle East.

The eleventh Angel from the talented Mr Ripley

Out of the blue Angel is contacted by his mother who is living a semibohemian life in darkest Suffolk. She is concerned about one of her neighbours who has decided to fund a private archaeological dig on his own farmland convinced he will find the remains from Queen Boudicca's royal mint.
There have been sinister accidents on site and several diggers have been attacked, so Angel decides he must infiltrate the dig - only to discover it has already been infiltrated by individuals intent on finding a grave far more recent than the Iron Age...