The Private PatientWhen the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called

a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute

If there is nothing but matter

centuries before their time

the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity

This is what happens when women have had enough

As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place

'Luminous and enchanting

she sets out to avenge him

Mississippi

For after his defeat

their elven homeland

these women struggle against domestic violence