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A Palestine affair

2003
In 1924 British Palestine, Mark Bloomberg, a disillusioned London painter, arrives with his American wife and accidentally witnesses the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew and becomes embroiled in an investigation which threatens both their marriage and their lives.

Easter Island

2003
Two women separated by more than sixty years, find their lives converging on Easter Island, where they both discover their true inner selves.

Samurai William

the adventurer who unlocked Japan
2003
Tells the story of William Adams, an Englishman who was part of a Dutch crew that arrived in Japan in 1600 in hopes of opening trade, discussing how he became a favorite in the ruling shogun's court, and his later attempts to extend trade privileges to England.

My life as a fake

a novel
2003
Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, accompanies the famous and infamous John Slater on a trip to Malaysia, hoping to find out how he destroyed her parents' marriage, but instead finds herself drawn into a dangerous mystery abroad.

Indigo

2000
Jack Chambers discovers a cult-like group of his father's followers whose obsession is the pursuit of invisibility found in the color indigo, while he reunites with his half sister Louise and his father's mistress to claim their inheritance.

The game

a Mary Russell novel
2010
Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, but when Holmes' gravely ill brother brings news of a mystery, the couple set off to solve another mystery that is complicated by the government, family ties, and a decades-old secret.

Ruskin's rose

a Venetian love story
2000

White-out

2000

Women of the Raj

1988

Locked rooms

a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
2010
As Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, travel to San Francisco to settle her family legal affairs, she begins to act irrationally and have haunting dreams. Her family memories of being in the 1906 earthquake resurface, and secrets of her family's past reveal several mysteries. Mary and Sherlock investigate her parent's marriage, a car accident, and numerous unexplained deaths in the family.

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