It is summertime in Provence, 1926, but for Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands it's not all 'Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth'. A troubling crime has been committed days earlier at the chateau, leaving a clear message that more violence is to come. To allay panic, Joe agrees to stay on and root out the guilty person.

On a welcome break from his policing duties, Joe Sandilands is visiting his old army friend, James Lindsay, commander of the British army's front line fort at Gor Khatri on the Afghan border. An uneasy peace is in operation, but into this situation is injected an ill-assorted group of visitors to the fort.

India, 1922. Scotland Yard detective Joe arrives in the state of Ranipur at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. The Maharajah is dying, and the succession is unclear. The death of his first son, while panther-wrestling, is suspicious, but as Joe begins to investigate a second son dies dramatically right before his eyes.

A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But the corpse is that of a member of the British establishment, Dame Beatrice Joliffe, one of the founders of the Wrens, and so Scotland Yard send Joe to conduct a swift enquiry.

Simla 1922: The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. Commander Joe Sandilands is looking forward to spending a month here in the cool of the Himalayan hills as the guest of Sir George Jardine, the Governor of Bengal. Then Joe's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side.

It is India 1922 and the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one each year and always in March. The only link between the bizarre but apparently accidental deaths is the bunches of small red roses that appear on the women's graves.

Joe Sandilands has been despatched to France to stay as the guest of a glamorous French war-widow. The widow is determined that Joe should support her claim that a mysterious shell-shocked soldier, suffering from amnesia and a loss of speech is her husband. The problem is that four other claimants have identified him differently.

Castigatoarea Premiului Dagger, Barbara Cleverly, ne propune un thriller istoric de exceptie: Mormantul lui Zeus - primul roman din seria Laetitia Talbot, a carei actiune se petrece in 1928, in Creta.Laetitia Talbot, arheolog neofit, este invitata in Creta sa-si petreaca un sejur in vila unui celebru arheolog care cauta o comoara mitica: mormantul lui Zeus. Insa ceea ce promitea a fi o vacanta linistita se transforma repede intr-o ancheta politista, caci in gradina vilei este descoperit un...

On his return from India, Commander Joe Sandilands, now adept at the arts of dynamic diplomacy, finds himself up to his neck in a tricky political situation. A war-weary London is reeling from IRA atrocities and Joe is further plagued by the machinations of a spy-ring being run under his nose by a Russian emigree princess.

In tara amurgurilor de sofran si a caldurii toride, o tanara sotie de cavalerist englez este gasita moarta in baie, cu venele taiate, plutind in cada plina de apa si sange. Sinucidere? Crima? Cazul ii revine comandantului Joseph Sandilands de la Scotland Yard, care tocmai si-a incheiat cele sase luni de stagiu la Politia din Calcutta. El descopera ca si alte sotii de ofiteri din acelasi regiment au murit in conditii misterioase, care se dovedesc legate in moduri dintre cele mai sinistre de...