Quercus

The London Times called Baptism ';a tense blockbuster with worryingly credible characters.' In this modern-day thriller set in the subway tunnels beneath London, DCI Ed Mallory of the London police faces the greatest challenge of his brilliant, if somewhat unconventional, career as a hostage crisis negotiator. Blinded in a grenade blast...

Philomena Bligh's fiance, Dan, has been shot. The First World War claimed many lives and so his death is not, in its own way, surprising. But Dan was shot in the minutes after the Armistice. The war was over.She cannot understand how this could have happened, or why they were still fighting that morning anyway. So, in March 1919, over...