Crippen
by John Boyne | 
Lightning Men
by Thomas Mullen | 
Company of Liars
by Karen Maitland | 
The Cup of Ghosts
by Paul Doherty | 
The Scent of Death
by Andrew Taylor | 
The Roots of Betrayal
by James Forrester | 
The King's Gambit
by John Maddox Roberts | 
The Limehouse Golem
by Peter Ackroyd | 
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
by Peter Ackroyd | 
The Poisoned Island
by Lloyd Shepherd | 
Rust & Stardust
by T. Greenwood | 
November Road
by Lou Berney | 
Arthur & George
by Julian Barnes | 
Between Two Fires
by Mark Noce | 
See What I Have Done
by Sarah Schmidt | 
The English Monster
by Lloyd Shepherd |
The House of Rumour
by Jake Arnott | 
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey | 
The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton | 
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens |
All talk is of the End-time...and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumour shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house, or was it a calculated murder? Even Dr John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser on the Hidden and one of Dudley's oldest friends, is uncertain. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family's old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited supernatural properties. With Dee goes Robert Dudley, considered the most hated man in England. They travel with the entourage of a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back to the Battle of Brynglas, in which close to a thousand Englishmen died at the hands of the Welsh. After the battle, many of the bodies were, according to legend, obscenely mutilated. Now, on the same haunted hill, another dead man has been found, similarly slashed. Devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted religion and a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father...