Lance Bradley sitter på stampuben i Glastonbury da han oppsøkes av storesøsteren til sin barndomsvenn Rupert. Rupert er savnet, og søsteren ber om hjelp til å finne ham. Motvillig drar han til London, bare for å oppdage at vennen er forsvunnet etter å ha blitt forflyttet til Tokyo. Han møter også den japanske forretningsmannen Hashiomoto, som leter etter Rupert fordi han angivelig har stjålet et livsviktig dokument. Også amerikaneren Stephen Townley, som har forbindelse til et mystisk dødsfall i 1963, leter etter Rupert. Da Hashimoto blir skutt på åpen gate i Berlin, innser Lance at det Rupert er involvert i, kan bli farlig for ham selv. Men nå er det for sent å trekke seg. Han har bare en utvei: Å finne vennen og det forsvunne dokumentet. Boka er en spenningsmessig berg-og-dal-bane, skiftene er brå og uventede og løsningen er overraskende. Slik det skal være i en Robert Goddard-roman.

Det er en varm sommerdag i turistlandsbyen Avebury. En mann venter utenfor Red Lion pub. Uten noe bedre å gjøre blir han sittende og se på en kvinne med tre små barn. To av barna løper i forveien mens søsteren deres dilter etter. Han ser ingenting alvorlig eller truende. Ikke engang når en annen skikkelse entrer synsfeltet hans, reagerer han. Men da skjer det. I et sprang tar en fremmed mann det yngste barnet, og stormer av gårde med henne. En hvit varebil nærmer seg. Motoren går raskt, bakdøren smeller igjen. Barnet og hennes bortfører er inni bilen. Barnets søster løper fremover. Mannen utenfor puben spretter opp. Tragedien begynner utenfor Avebury. Men den ender ikke der... "Usett" åpner i 1981 med en tragisk hendelse. To år gamle Tamsin Hall kidnappes, og hennes syvårige søster Miranda kjøres ned av kidnapperen. Historikeren David Umber var vitne til hendelsen, og den har preget hans liv siden. Nå kontaktes han av etterforskeren som hadde ansvaret for saken den gang, George Sharp. Sammen og hver for seg søker David og George sannheten. Løsningen på hvem som begikk den kriminelle handlingen mot barna er intelligent og overraskende. A superbly plotted thriller with an astonishing but totally satisfying climax Good Book Guide Exhibits his mastery of plot, tension and action The Times Robert Goddard regularly produces the best, as well as easily the most intelligent thrillers being published today. ....a dazzling tour de force... The Denver Post

And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it.Now, enlisted under false colours in Lemmer's service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret Service, Max sets out on his first - and possibly last - mission for Lemmer.

Seks måneder etter sin manns død drar Leonora Galloway på ferie til Paris med sin datter Penelope. De stopper ved minnesmerket for Slaget ved Somme fordi Leonoras far døde der. Dødsdatoen viste 30. april 1916, men Leonora ble født 14. mars 1917....

Cabinet minister Edward Stafford bestemmer seg brått for å gå av på høyden av sin karriere i parlamentet. Hvorfor går noen så langt som å drepe ham syv år senere for å forhindre at sannheten blir avslørt?

Hvorfor forsvant Heather Mallender på en helt alminnelig fjelltur? Og hvorfor ble Harry straks mistenkt for å ha myrdet henne? Bare ved å vende tilbake til den fortid han trodde han hadde lagt bak seg for alltid, kan Harry løse dette mysteriet.

Det er en varm sommerdag i turistlandsbyen Avebury. Utenfor Red Lion pub sitter en mann og venter. Han ser på en kvinne med tre små barn, og registrerer ingenting alvorlig eller truende. Plutselig tar en fremmed mann det yngste barnet og stormer av gårde med henne.

Fiction crime

Harry Barnett får plutselig vite at han har en sønn han ikke visste om, og denne sønnen ligger i koma på sykehuset. Legene tror det var en ulykke, eller forsøk på selvmord. Omstendighetene gjør at Harry ikke tror på dette, og han går inn for å finne sannheten.

Actor Toby Flood, arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of the play "Lodger in the throat". They have been on tour since September, but hopes of a West End transfer have been abandoned and they are all looking forward to the end of the run the following Saturday. Flood is visited that night by his estranged wife Jenny, now living with wealthy entrepreneur Roger Colborn. Jenny runs a shop in the Lanes and is worried about a strange man who has taken to hanging around outside. Roger has dismissed her concerns, but she wants something done and hopes Toby will agree for old times' sake to follow the man to wherever he lives and get to the bottom of his behaviour. Next day Flood trails the man to his house and confronts him. Derek Osawin is an unemployed loner, who blames Colborn for his father's death from cancer, on account of dangerous practices at the long since closed plastics factory run by Roger and his father. But he is also a fan of Flood's and eventually agrees to lay off. Circumstances nevertheless conspire to draw Flood further and further into Oswin's life.

Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London one unremarkable winter morning when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, her other ex-husband, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs a favour done for him - now, today, at once. Eusden reluctantly agrees and sets off on what should be a simple errand. But soon it turns into a race for life, his and Marty's, across Belgium, Germany and Denmark and on into the Nordic heart of a mystery that somehow connects Marty's long dead grandfather, Clem Hewitson, an Isle of Wight police officer, with the tragic fate of the Russian Royal Family. Eusden discovers to his dismay that he can trust no-one, not even an old and dying friend, in a battle for survival with those who are determined to steal the secret they believe he and Marty hold - and will kill for it if they have to. Every move Eusden makes threatens to be a step into disaster. But move he must - in pursuit of the truth, on the heels of history. It is his only hope.

There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago, he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved, his men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars. Now Gazi's family want more from him: in exchange for keeping Hammond's dirty little secret, they want him to find for them the man who holds the key to all the money Gazi squirreled away before he was locked up. But Italian financier, Marco Piravani, doesn't want to be found, not by Hammond, not by anyone. No sooner has Hammond tracked him down, than Piravani has disappeared again. His pursuit will take him first to the Hague, and then to Milan to find the Italian, and then finally back to the scene of his crime, Belgrade, where he must confront the decisions he once so easily took. Only then will he be able to lay the past to rest...

Days Without Number , now published for the first time in the United States, is classic Robert Goddard: intricately plotted, richly detailed, and suspenseful to the very last page. Nick Paleologus, a coolly efficient Englishman, is summoned home to resolve a dispute that threatens to tear his family apart. His father, Michael, is a retired archaeologist and supposed descendent of the last Emperors of Byzantium. Michael has received a hugely generous offer for the family estate in Cornwall, but refuses to sell and refuses to divulge why. Soon the stalemate between Nick s siblings and their father is tragically broken, and only then do they discover why their father was bound to protect the house at all costs. Their desperate efforts to conceal the truth drag them into a deadly conflict with an unseen and unknown enemy. Soon, Nick realizes the only change they have of escaping their persecutor s trap is to hunt this ruthless adversary down. But the hunt involves excavating a terrible secret from their father s past. And once that secret is known, nothing will ever be the same again."

Lance Bradleys gamle venn Rupert Alder har forsvunnet og etterlatt seg kaos. Lance bestemmer seg for at det er for risikabelt for han å bli involvert i saken, bare for å oppdage at han allerede er involvert. Den eneste måten å komme ut av problemene på er å bli enda dypere involvert.

London, januar 1721. William Spandrel er blakk, og når han får et tilbud om å bli kvitt gjelda si mot å levere ei pakke til Sir Theodore Janssens venn Ysbrand de Vries i Amsterdam, slår han til. Etter at han har overlevert pakka, er det så vidt Spandrel overlever et overfall. Kort tid etter blir han anklaget for mordet på de Vries. Da pakka og de Vries' engelske kone forsvinner, skjønner Spandrel at han er en brikke i et større spill. Spandrel må finne igjen pakka for å overleve, men spørsmålet er hva pakka egentlig inneholder og hvem han skal levere den til.

Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a tragic accident, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband, long-time friend Matt Prior, at their new home in the country - Otherways. It is a strange, circular, moated house, the only surviving creation of an eccentric and reclusive Edwardian architect. Disturbed by memories of his wife and a growing attraction to Lucy, Sheridan is also troubled by weird and vivid dreams. He learns that a murder committed at Otherways in 1939 still has a strange and malign power over those living in or near the house, as does a later scandal surrounding the murderer's brother, a nuclear scientist who defected to the Soviet Union. These and other mysteries forewarn Sheridan of disaster as he and Lucy embark on a passionate affair. But disaster, when it strikes, is far worse than a wrecked marriage or a friendship betrayed. In uncovering the truth about Otherways, Sheridan realises too late that he is merely adding to the list of victims - and that those closest to him may soon be among them.

Terningkast 6. «Sirkler av stein er den type bok det nærmest er umulig å legge fra seg halvlest.»Monica Nordland Yndestad, Bergensavisen Robert Goddard er en mester i å overraske leseren. Skjulte dagbøker, låste skuffer og rystende drap er bare noen av ingrediensene i Sirkler av stein, den tolvte romanen fra den britiske bestselgerforfatteren.