Robert Goddard

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery.

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home....

Why should Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Straford resign at the height of his career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly reject him? The answer is complex....

On a stifling afternoon at police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement is handed a ticking time bomb of a case that will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France....

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case....

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances....

Harry Barnett, a middle-aged failure, leads a shabby existence....

Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world who are still trying to hammer out the terms of peace....

Recovering from the recent tragedy of his wife's death in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband at their new home - Otherways....

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance....

Harry Barnett is informed that his son is in hospital in a diabetic coma....

The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east to Tokyo....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of One False Move by Robert Goddard, read by Fiona Hampton and Alistair Petrie....

In The Corners of the Globe, Max is sent on his first mission for legendary German spy Fritz Lemmer, the very man who claims responsibility for the murder of Max's father....

The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage....

It is January 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age, the collapse of the South Sea Bubble....

1882. St John's Wood. Lorsqu'un homme se présente aux portes de la maison de Constance Trenchard, celle-ci ne se doute pas que sa vie...

Dans son cottage de bord de mer, Beatrix Abberley est assassinée en pleine nuit. Étrangement, elle paraissait s'y attendre ; elle...

Cornouailles, 1981. Chris Napier revient pour la première fois depuis des années à Tredower House, le domaine familial, acquis entre...

Paris, 1919 : mort d'un diplomate anglais. Printemps 1919. La terre entière a les yeux rivés sur Paris. C'est en effet là que se tient la Conférence de la paix, où vont se négocier tous les traités entre vainqueurs et vaincus de la Première Guerre mondiale.