The Brotherhood of FiveA stunning new crime novel from this award winning writer The Island of Thanet, 1808. One man is pushed into a kiln of molten metal beneath the looming shadow of the Shot Tower, and another is dug up from the sandy bay beyond. Who they were, and why they died so strangely, is no ordinary mystery, and Missing Persons Finder Whilbert Stroop has a hard time finding answers. On arrival in this marshy, coastal corner of Kent, on the very edge of England,

Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave

and can any of them ever rebuild their lives in the wake of tragedy

plunging them into horrifying secrets from the past Viking rites and tainted love and Scandinavias deepest

a disturbing picture emerges of two women hiding dark secrets and who are desperate enough to do anything to come out on top

capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation

whilst America mourns

and the fate of the world are bound by a single manuscript

country house weekends

beyond size zero' teenage Rupert is expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama

famous for his Chronicles of Narnia and other fantasy writings

and blast through the Badlands

It's clear that everything Sam thought he knew about his mother was wrong