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The fourth instalment in the Anderson and Costello series turns personal for Anderson as he fights to clear his name while investigating a series of brutal crimes targeting child victims

Jack Haldean's weekend entertainment at the country estate of Birchen Bower is cut short by the discovery of a body, mauled to death as if by a wild animal. Birchen Bower has a long and colourful history, and is rumoured to be haunted. Refusing to believe the wild tales of man-eating beasts prowling the grounds, Jack sets out to uncover the truth.

During a storm off the coast of Maine where her home, the Towers, stands, Lilah Calhoun rescued Professor Max Quartermain from the turbulent sea. In the wake of the near tragedy, an undeniable desire grows between them. But Lilah knows Max is hiding something that threatens her family's future and any chance for love between them.

March, 1859. During an exhibition to showcase London's top engineers' plans to solve the 'Great Stink' of sewage from the River Thames, proceedings are disrupted by an agonised scream - and the discovery of a blood-soaked body. Charles Dickens is convinced of foul play, and once again he and Wilkie Collins set about uncovering the shocking truth.

Leeds. November, 1823. After hearing about the brutal deaths of two young boys, thief-taker Simon Westow's painful memories of his childhood reawaken. Unable to sleep, he goes for a walk - and stumbles upon a body being pulled from the river. Simon is drawn into investigating the deaths, but the pursuit of the truth takes him down a dangerous path.

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As Henry Christie and his colleague DS Debbie Blackstone close in on a lead for the Lancashire police Cold Case Unit, they find themselves embroiled in a brutal, blood-soaked turf war between organized crime gangs in Europe, the fallout of which will be felt across the genteel country lanes of northern England.

When her father is accused of murder, Lydia rushes to Boston alongside Will Rees. Despite them offering to help prove his innocence, Marcus Farrell rejects their help. Things escalate when Julian, Marcus's brother, is killed. Is Marcus behind both murders? Can Will and Lydia solve the murders before the Farrell family tears itself apart?

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March, 1588. As King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade England, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. Ursula Stannard finds herself plunged into a hotbed of intrigue and rumour at the Duke of Parma's court, a place where no one is to be trusted.

Travel agent Campbell Hale isn't surprised when her good friend, Nashville socialite Bitsy Carter, goes on a luxury Mexican spa vacation. She is, however, extremely surprised - and extremely worried - when Bitsy doesn't come back. Campbell books herself a trip to Mexico to find her friend, but will it a vacation to remember . . . or one to die for?

When a hurricane hits the Caribbean with brutal force, Constable Teddy Creque, the sole police officer on tiny, sun-soaked Anegada, is too busy saving his fellow islanders to worry about an escaped prisoner who can allegedly kill with magic. After all, Teddy doesn't believe in magic. But events soon force him to reconsider .

December 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore feels fortunate to be employed by well-meaning fake medium Carlotta Romany. It's not work she's proud of, but she's proud of how well she does it. But when her investigations into a new client get her mixed up with Chicago's violent gangs, she'll need all her wits about her if she's to make it out alive.

Cambridge, 1965. Albert Campion's wife, Lady Amanda, is arrested by Special Branch for breaking the Official Secrets Act - all part of her elaborate plan to catch the person responsible for leaking sensitive aeronautical research from Alandel Aeroplanes. But her plan did not account for a bizarre and gruesome industrial accident at the hangar .