As the depredations increase in the occupied zone—food rationing, systematic looting, and the billeting of a German officer, Capt. The protaganists had a rather too modern outlook and view of the world, especially in their attitude to religion. The American Boy, a gothic mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe's boyhood years in England, was one of the ten titles featured in Channel 4's Richard and Judy Book Club 2005 and was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade. Our features are original articles from our print magazines (these will say where they were originally published) or original articles commissioned for this site.

The cubicle where she tweezes, epilates and massages is a confessional where her clients reveal their secrets.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. He read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and has an MA in Library, Archive and Information Science from University College London. Andrew Taylor has also written a number of novellas with ghostly or other-worldly themes, originally as Kindle Singles. Meanwhile, Viann’s journey from passive to active resistance is less dramatic but no less wrenching.

The story is steeped in politics, intrigue, betrayal, control and mystery so that I became absolutely spellbound in its telling. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. While seeking her father in the aftermath of the fire, Cat lives with her Alderley cousins, who resent and exploit her.I had to read it for a book group and it was the second time i tried to get to grips with it but, unlike a good wine it does not improve with age.

There is also a minor plot discrepancy: the narrator mentions at one point that Cat was responsible for blinding Edward when there is no way he should have known that.

Both of them are sucked into events stranger and more dangerous than they could ever have envisaged. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Images A model of London’s 17th-century skyline blazes … Andrew Taylor’s vivid The Fire Court begins with the aftermath, in 1667. She is a spirited teenager who dreams of becoming an architect and escaping an unsatisfactory marriage her aunt and uncle have arranged. But at a time of dangerous internal dissent and the threat of foreign invasion, Marwood finds his investigation leads him into treacherous waters – and across the path of a determined, beautiful and vengeful young woman.

His Roth trilogy, which has been published in omnibus form as Requiem for an Angel (2002), was adapted by the UK’s ITV for its television show Fallen Angel. I would have been more content just following 1 character although understand why it was written the way it was as it was interwoven stories.I thought the way Cat’s actions make the reader contemplate morality was so thought-provoking, because she often does the wrong thing but for absolutely the right reason.