Trace Tom Stoppard Thoresby's master of the guards

Thoresby's master of the guards

For lovers of Alexander McCall Smith

this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today

Captain Innocent Stryker and his men are attacked by an elite cavalry unit commanded by the formidable Colonel Gabriel Wild and suffer heavy losses

something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure

Trace Tom Stoppard Thoresby's master of the guardsSince POSTMORTEM garnered critical acclaim and a record breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen year old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue