ANDREW TAYLOR

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From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. A CITY IN FLAMES London, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes everything in its path, the body of a man is found in the ruins of St Paul's Cathedral - stabbed in the neck, thumbs tied behind his back. A WOMAN ON THE RUN The son of a traitor, James Marwood is forced to hunt the killer through the city's devastated streets. There he encounters a determined young woman who will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. A KILLER SEEKING REVENGE When a second murder victim is discovered in the Fleet Ditch, Marwood is drawn into the political and religious intrigue of Westminster - and across the path of a killer with nothing to lose...

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En la Trilogía Roth, Andrew Taylor explora, como un minucioso arqueólogo, los demonios del pasado para desenterrar las intrincadas raíces de un presente de horror, sexo, violencia y religión. Roth acaba por ser para el lector no tanto un pueblecito junto a Londres como un suburbial estado de ánimo en el que el sentimiento de culpa y la religión desempeñan un papel importante. La estructura de la Trilogía Roth es única en el género de la novela policíaca y el thriller psicológico: Las cuatro últimas cosas, El juicio ajeno y Oficio de difuntos son tres historias interrelacionadas, cada una de ellas cerrada en sí misma y de lectura independiente, con su propio estilo, que invitan sin embargo a una continua relectura y reinterpretación, enriqueciéndose de este modo mutuamente, pues el orden de escritura y de publicación fue cronológicamente inverso respecto al de los acontecimientos que se narran. Es decir, si las novelas se leen en orden nos remiten cada vez a un tiempo más lejano, lo que hace particularmente oportuno publicarlas conjuntamente, de modo que sea el lector quien decida el orden en que se enfrente a ellas. El talento narrativo de Andrew Taylor y la potencia evocadora de su prosa justifican el espectacular éxito internacional que su obra ha cosechado.

*WINNER of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award 2013* 'Andrew Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a new historical thriller set during the American War of Independence. 'This is the story of a woman and a city. I saw the city first, shimmering from afar like the new Jerusalem in the setting sun. It was Sunday, 2nd August 1778.' Edward Savill, a London clerk from the American Department, is assigned to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence. Surrounded by its enemies, British Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, profiteers, double agents and a swelling tide of refugees seeking justice from the Crown. Savill lodges with the respected Wintour family: the old Judge, his ailing wife and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. The family lives in limbo, praying for the safe return of Jack Wintour, Arabella's husband, who is missing behind rebel lines. The discovery of a body in the notorious slums of Canvas Town thrusts Savill into a murder inquiry. But in the escalating violence of a desperate city, why does one death matter? Because the secret this killing hides could be the key to power for whoever uncovers it...

Clásico de detective inspector en Thorn Hill en Lydmouth en la que él mismo bajo sospecha de asesinato y tiene un siglo de inundaciones secretos siniestros de todo tipo de delincuencia fördert.Stunning surgieron con un fuerte elenco de personajes por el reconocido autor Andrew Taylor.

It's 1934, and the decaying North London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no.7. However, unbeknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the lodging house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels smelling of rotting meat being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive . . . ?

You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide... James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her father's help: she's wanted for murder. But there is no room for murder in James's life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country... As Kate comes crashing into his world, so she lights the fuse under his ordered life. Because James has also been keeping a secret - a very dark and deadly one...

Oficio de difuntos cierra la trilogía Roth situando al lector a finales de los años cincuenta del siglo XX, y sigue los pasos de Wendy Appleyard cuando, tras cinco años de matrimonio, abandona a su marido Henry para establecerse con su vieja amiga Janet en la catedral de Rosington para ocuparse de la rica biblioteca. Casada con una guapo pastor protestante, David Byfield y madre de una preciosa niña, Janet parece gozar de una vida perfecta, envidiable. Pero todo se tuerce cuando el crimen irrumpe en la ciudad. Y solo Wendy, ajena a la comunidad, esta en disposicion de advertir donde se oculta el mal...

As Lydia Langstone flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no 7. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square?

Todas las épocas de la Historia han estado dominadas por los intentos de grupos étnicos y nacionales de asentar su poder y dominar a otras entidades más débiles, ya sea por razones de engrandecimiento territorial o cultural, ambicion material e incluso obsesiones individuales. Algunos imperios, como el Tercer Reich de Hitler, se derrumban con asombrosa rapidez; otros, como los imperios coloniales frances y britanico, crecen poco a poco a lo largo de los siglos, pero solo para terminar cayendo con mayor rapidez de laque tuvo su expansion. Andrew Taylor analiza 25 de esos imperios repartidos a lo largo de toda la Historia y el planeta. Proporciona claras descripciones de todos; explica las estructuras de poder y los valores sociales y culturales subyacentes en cada uno de ellos, y estudia las razones de su ascenso y las de su desaparicion. Apogeo y caida de los grandes imperios tambien trata algunos temas recurrentes en la historia de los mismos: el modo en que se colapsan las estructuras imperiales, su dependencia de lideres poderosos y el modo en que se enfrentan al problema surgido por los diferentes pueblos y religiones que engloban sus fronteras. Pero, sobre todo, Andrew Taylor explica el modo en que los diferentes imperios ?sacudieron el mundo?: durante el siglo XIII, el Imperio mongol de Gengis Khan hizo temblar de miedo a Europa, mientras que los efectos politicos y culturales de los imperios romano y britanico todavia estan presentes en la actualidad.

1934, London. Into the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier?

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution. Selected as Historical Novel of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times, and picked as one of Radio 4's Crime Books of the Year. Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent to retrieve the boy, though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?

From the No.1 bestselling author of The Last Protector and The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett during the time of King Charles II. Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold! A Times Best Paperback of 2022 Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards a government clerk dies painfully in mysterious circumstances.His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate - but the task brings unexpected dangers. Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a prestigious new commission arrives.

The seventh in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on the Welsh/English border in the years after World War II

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK

From the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times best-seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novel