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At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they carved as their own.

An epic of courage and love that moves from war-torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness.

Two men and a woman; respectively an engineer, adventurer and journalist, take charge of a consignment of obsolete weapons and oppose Mussolini's plans to invade Ethiopia during World War Two.

An action story of a group of mercenaries who set out to relieve a mining town in the heart of the African jungle.

A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners.

Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has myster

The erstwhile members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are left out in the cold when the unit is shut down, but then a beheading prompts their recall.

Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox.

John May and Arthur Bryant are immersed in a case as bizarre as anything they've encountered during their storied careers.

Two small children are playing a game called "Witch-Hunter". They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die.