The Ministry of FearFor Arthur Rowe the charity f? te was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond

everybody recognises her face

Soon Quell realises that hiding who you are is even harder

Just tremendous' LISA JEWELL

The last of his subjects in this selection

But his scream wasn't the scream of a child - it was the scream of an old man

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling

she thought she'd left her problems behind: her alcoholic father

action-packed series set on the frontiers of the Roman Empire

set just before the Opium Wars

But when the latest girl goes missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America

including herself