Août 1778, à New York, un gentilhomme est poignardé en pleine rue. La victime est un officier amateur de jeux de hasard. Dans une ville en construction, melting-pot de soldats, de traîtres et de rebelles, la justice est sommaire et expéditive. Un vagabond est donc arrêté et pendu. Mais l'homme de loi Edward Savill, trouve qu'on est allé un peu vite en besogne. Il s'interroge sur les liens entre la victime, le vieux Juge Wintour, sa femme malade et leur énigmatique fille. 
Ce que cette famille a perdu en richesse, elle semble l'avoir gagné en secrets. Dans cette nouvelle Amérique au parfum de mort, tout s'achète et tout se vend. Même l'honneur et la respectabilité...

Un parfum de mort

Le jugement des etrangers

From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London

 Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!

 A time of terrible danger.The Great Fire has ravaged London. Now, guided by the Fire Court, the city is rebuilding, but times are volatile and danger is only ever a heartbeat away.

 Two mysterious deaths.James Marwood, a traitor's son, is thrust into this treacherous environment when his father discovers a dead woman in the very place where the Fire Court sits. The next day his father is run down. Accident? Or another murder.?

 A race to stop a murderer.Determined to uncover the truth, Marwood turns to the one person he can trust - Cat Lovett, the daughter of a despised regicide. Then comes a third death. and Marwood and Cat are forced to confront a vicious killer who threatens the future of the city itself.

The Fire Court

From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.

 Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!

 A dangerous secret lies beneath Whitehall Palace.

 Brother against brother. Father against son. Friends turned into enemies. No one in England wants a return to the bloody days of the Civil War. But Oliver Cromwell's son, Richard, has abandoned his exile and slipped back into England. The consequences could be catastrophic.

 James Marwood, a traitor's son turned government agent, is tasked with uncovering Cromwell's motives. But his assignment is complicated by his friend - the regicide's daughter, Cat Lovett - who knew the Cromwells as a child, and who now seems to be hiding a secret of her own about the family.

 Both Marwood and Cat know they are putting themselves in great danger. And when they find themselves on a top secret mission in the Palace of Whitehall, they realize they are risking their lives.and could even be sent to the block for treason.

 Praise for Andrew Taylor

 'One of the best historical crime writers today' The Times

 'If you like C. J. Sansom, or Hilary Mantel, you'll love Andrew Taylor' Peter James

 'Effortlessly authentic.gripping.moving and believable. An excellent work' C. J. Sansom

 'This is historical crime fiction at its dazzling best' Guardian

 'One of the best historical novelists around' Sunday Times

 'A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era' Financial Times

 'A masterclass in writing for the genre' Ann Cleeves

 'Andrew Taylor is one of our finest storytellers' Antonia Hodgson

 'Vivid and compelling' Observer

 'Taylor brings the 17th century to life so vividly that one can almost smell it' Guardian

 'A most artful and delightful book, that will both amuse and chill' Daily Telegraph

The Last Protector

THREE NO.1 BESTSELLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICKS IN ONE.

 THE AMERICAN BOY BY ANDREW TAYLOR:England, 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school near London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. When a brutal crime is committed he finds himself at the heart of a labyrinthine mystery - a tangle of sex, money, murder and lies from which he cannot escape. And what of the strange American boy at the centre of these macabre events - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe?

 THE SAVAGE GARDEN BY MARK MILLS:Italy, 1958. Arriving at the Docci family home, young scholar Adam Strickland finds the family, their house and its unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, and the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate. Before long, he will uncover two stories of love, revenge and murder, separated by 400 years. but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa's cursed past?

 THE RIGHTEOUS MEN BY SAM BOURNE:A series of killings in every corner of the globe cannot possibly be connected. That's the instinct of Will Monroe, rookie reporter for The New York Times - until his beautiful wife Beth is kidnapped. Desperate, Will follows a trail that leads to a mysterious cult right on his own doorstep. With more murders by the hour, he must now unravel the prophecies buried deep in the Bible until he finds a secret worth killing for, a secret on which the fate of humanity may depend.

Richard and Judy Bookclub - 3 Bestsellers in 1 - The American Boy, The Savage Garden, The Righteous Men

Londres, 1819. Thomas Shield devient le professeur particulier d'un jeune Américain, Edgar Poe, et de son meilleur ami, Charles Frant, dont la mère, une femme séduisante et malheureuse, l'attire irrésistiblement. Lorsqu'un homme est retrouvé mort et que tous les indices convergent vers la famille Frant, Thomas est emporté dans une spirale dont les conséquences risquent d'être lourdes pour lui. Il décide alors de trouver le coupable mais le piège se referme au fur et à mesure qu'il cherche à s'en échapper. Quel est le donc le lien entre ces macabres évènements et le jeune Edgar Poe? Thomas devra traverser bien des épreuves avant que la vérité soit enfin dévoilée...Mêlant avec brio fiction et réalité, ce roman à l'intrigue haletante nous plonge dans l'atmosphère de l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle, où Edgar Allan Poe passa quatre années de son adolescence : l'agitation des rues londoniennes, les taudis de St Giles et Seven Dials, l'hypocrisie d'une bourgeoisie avide de pouvoir... Un décor parfait pour un meurtre, des secrets de famille et une galerie de personnages loin d'être aussi respectables qu'ils voudraient le faire croire.

L'Esprit des Morts

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella - perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.

 It's Christmas before the Great War and two lonely schoolboys have been forced into companionship. Left in the care of an elderly teacher, there is little to do but listen to his eerie tales about the nearby Cathedral. The boys concoct a plan to discover if the stories are true. But the Cathedral is filled with hidden dangers, and curiosity can prove fatal.

Broken Voices (A Novella)

The first book in the No. 1 Times bestselling series

 'This is terrific stuff' Daily Telegraph

 'A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era' Financial Times

 'A masterclass in how to weave a well-researched history into a complex plot' The Times

 Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!

 A CITY IN FLAMESLondon, 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 RUNThe 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 REVENGEWhen 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.

The Ashes of London

It's 1958, and the party's over for Wendy Appleyard: she finds herself penniless, jobless and on the brink of divorce. So she runs to her oldest friend Janet Byfield, who seems to have everything Wendy lacks: a handsome husband, a lovely little daughter, Rosie, and a beautiful home in the Cathedral Close of Rosington. David Byfield is on the verge of promotion, and Janet is the perfect wife for an ambitious young clergyman.But perfection has always been dangerous, and gradually the idyll sours. Old sins come to haunt the present and breed new sins in their place. The shadow of death seeps through the Close, and with it comes a double mystery stretching back to turn-of-the-century Rosington, to a doomed poet-priest called Francis YoulgreaveOnly Wendy, the outsider looking in, glimpses the truth. But can she grasp its dark and twisted logic in time to prevent the coming tragedy?

Un parfum de mort

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