Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts is both a ghost story and a murder mystery set in the cloistered world of a Cambridge college in the late 1700s.

The leading character of the The Anatomy of Ghosts, John Holdsworth, is a former printer and bookseller who has fallen on straitened times because of his son and wife’s deaths. His wife sought solace with the ghost of their dead son until she, too, dies. As a consequence he is highly sceptical of ghosts.

Holdsworth writes his book , The Anatomy of Ghosts, to debunk ghostly sightings and to show them as mere delusion but his dreams are haunted by his dead wife.

Ghosts and Murder Create a Fascinating Mystery

A chilling thriller, CSI Darby McCormick faces a strange enemy. Young children go missing only to return years later in bizarre and macabre circumstances.

The Soul Collectors starts with a grotesquely disfigured Charlie Rizzo holding his family at gunpoint and demanding Darby McCormick meet him in the family home. Charlie Rizzo's presence is a surprise as he disappeared as a ten year old more than twelve years before.

arby arrives as part of a SWAT team and goes into the house alone. Before she can resolve the situation and discover what is happening a group of men disguised as SWAT officers burst in. They release sarin nerve gas and kill Charlie and all of the Rizzo family. A badly injured Darby escapes to discover her SWAT colleagues have been killed and she is on her own.

Just before he died Charlie Rizzo, whilst barely able to speak due to his mutilated face, tries to tell Darby what has happened and what he wants. The message raises as many questions as it answered.

The murder of King Ludwig II and cover-up is the basis for Chris Kuzneski’s fast paced thriller. Will the good guys find the treasure and the historical truth first?

The Secret Crown opens with a Prologue that is set in Bavaria on 13 June 1886. It tracks an assassin as he follows King Ludwig II of Bavaria who had just been deposed as monarch due to alleged insanity. Ludwig was a popular king but his lifestyle and excessive building led to near-bankruptcy and accusations of madness. The spendthrift ways and artistic leanings of the Swan King, as he was known, led to him being deposed. Now the assassin had to get him into talk and then kill him without leaving evidence as to why or how.

Chase, Battles and Treasure Hunt through Bavaria

The story jumps forward to modern day Germany and the Bavarian Alps where a hunter finds a hidden bunker by falling through the roof, unfortunately he does not get to tell the tale as the boar he has just shot kills him.

Caro Ramsay's latest novel, Dark Water, is out in paperback. Set around Glasgow in Scotland it should satisfy lovers of challenging detective mysteries.

Complex and Challenging Murder Mystery

Dark Water, Murder Lies Beneath the Surface starts with a violent attack on a young woman, Emily Corbett, on the eve of the new millennium and then jumps forward ten years when a body is uncovered in macabre setting. The murder investigation is picked up by Detective Chief Inspector Rebecca Quinn at Partickhill police station.

DCI Quinn is close to retirement and her station, Partickhill, feels as though it is being run down prior to closure. As a result Quinn and the investigating officers, detectives Anderson and Costello, have a particular interest in keeping control of the case. This becomes increasingly difficult as it becomes linked to the Corbett attack, the investigation of which, in theory, is still open at nearby Paisley, a larger police station.

Lion of the Sun is the third book in the Warrior of Rome series featuring Ballista. Historically accurate story of the battle for the Roman Empire.

In Warrior of Rome, Lion of the Sun Harry Sidebottom is his usual meticulous self in creating a detailed account of the late third century Roman Empire as its borders came under attack. Political intrigue and treachery compound the problem. Amongst all this Ballista has to escape from the captivity in which he was being held at the end of King of Kings.

Historical Accuracy from a Renowned Classical Scholar

It should be possible to rely on the historical accuracy as Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at the University of Oxford. He is an internationally renowned scholar specialising in the Roman Empire especially ancient warfare, cultural history and classical art. All these factors form an important part of the highly developed background to the Lion of Sun.