Lion

"e;An ominous sense of developing tension. A most fluent writer."e; - Colin Dexter, creator of Inspector Morse It would be so easy just to stay there, submerged and warm where the world couldn't touch me and I wouldn't have to face tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. So easy. To let go. Painless....

Not all the spirits are goodWithin a period of weeks, three horrific bomb blasts devastate areas of London, Los Angeles and Sydney. No explanation is offered, no victory claimed for these acts of terror. Yet behind the scenes a Machiavellian European businessman is planning to bring the G8 nations to their knees for his own larcenous...

Aidan brings his bright 8-year-old daughter Melangell to the retreat centre on the holy island of Lindisfarne to show her the places about which her recently-dead mother Jenny wrote books. There they meet Lucy, a Methodist minister, who is running a course on Northumbrian saints. When Rachel, a troubled teenager whom Lucy had befriended, is found...