Death Be My ThemeRecuperating from illness in Chelsea in 1764, a rural spot Robert Fairfax expects to be bored. But a chance meeting leads to his involvement with the Mozarts of Salzburg, whose young son is the musical prodigy creating a stir throughout their tour of Europe. The boy is an uncomprehending but vital witness to the events surrounding the death of Gabriel Chilcott, a wealthy and ill tempered music lover. His pretty young wife has secrets she does not care

compulsive and page-turning read' KATE HAMER

Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece

a young British Roman

But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered a pitchfork driven through his chest Masons racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life

Men are choosing to fight - and die - for a cause they believe in

Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative

Detective Inspector Martin Beck and his partner Lennart Kollberg are called in on both cases

still plagued by secrets that refuse to die

at a sensitive stage for them both

A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of Naked Lunch

What is 'the lamb' that Olympus Mons searches for in his bid for world domination

On the grass of No-man's Land