The Knife Maker of VeniceA young Englishman captured by slavers must survive the snakepit that is seventeenth century Venice. 1604. Pirate raiders terrorise the coasts of Europe, seeking slaves to sell in the markets of North Africa. When headstrong Richard Sheriff and his beloved sister Elizabeth are torn from their Devonshire home by slavers, he is cast into a living nightmare. With Richard being a talented blacksmith, the pirate captain intends to sell him for a high

he uncovers something even the Fellowship have never been able to solve - and it's a secret that will change everything

and the city

Jon has not seen his father for twenty years since the mysterious death of his mother

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and consulting with historians

Hugo Award-winning novelist and screenwriter

A web of secrets

What should you do

a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted

it awakens memories of the murder of an Oxford student 20 years ago

into a world of wheeling

who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other