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Colin Bannock is hiding quite the secret.
By day, he's a smooth-talking lawyer. After hours, he is someone else entirely.
He corners Arnold Landon, wanting him to join his society of history fanatics.
Appalled, Arnold declines outright. He's never been a joiner and, besides, he has enough on his plate already.
He is hunting for a lost and ancient treasure. And he knows the hiding place is close.
Then Bannock's body washes up on the banks of the River...
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St Michael's Church may be derelict but it's not deserted. Someone still comes here to worship on nights when the moon is full. Arnold Landon should know. He's seen the grisly evidence for himself. Blood among the roses.
The butchered remains of a man, tangled in the undergrowth. The victim was a traveler. How did he come to be in the churchyard? Arnold has a theory that leads back centuries, all the way to the cult of the Raging Wolf. Everyone tells...
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A hunter stalks the wild, wooded grounds of the Kilgour Estates. But what-or who-is his quarry?
A haughty professor comes calling on Arnold Landon for research assistance. But he's overlooked an important fact. Landon already has a job at the council-along with a raft of superiors who'd rather he focused on the dispute at hand.
Namely, who is the rightful owner of the Kilgour Estates? And the opulent manor house in the grounds? Dashing rake Patrick...
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Infidelity can be murderously dangerous.
Eric Ward thinks he is happily married-until he discovers that his wife, Anne, has been spending rather too much time with a business associate.
Suspicious and angry, Ward finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful stranger. But when his new lover is found dead, he must do everything he can to avoid becoming the focus of a murder inquiry that could wreck his future.
As police pressure looms, Ward makes his...
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THREE BAD MEN
SPAIN
An ex-con, breaks into a villa by the sea to steal something very precious from a safe. He will not leave without hurting someone.
ENGLAND
Tycoon Simon Chan asks Eric Ward to find a missing businessman. And Ward is also involved in a case involving his arch-enemy, the shady lawyer Charles Davison.
THEN A BODY WASHES UP ON A SPANISH BEACH …
Eric Ward will face the fight of his life against a professional killer inside and...
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A ruthless new boss shakes up Arnold's quiet life at the council.
From the moment Karen Stannard comes striding in the door, Arnold Landon knows his workplace will never be the same.
Now, he is saddled with a project he never wanted: the Ridgeway Viking Trust. Its shady leaders tell him there's treasure buried in the rolling Northumberland Hills-they just need one more payout to reach it.
But is there more to the Trust than meets the eye?
Muck-raking...
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Dark dealings in the boardroom and on the streets
Eileen O'Hara isn't used to hearing "no". She's the stunning chairman of Broadlands construction. But now she is facing a management takeover, with rivals bidding for control of her company.
Both are crooked with old scores to settle. Who will she choose?
She calls on lawyer and financier Eric Ward for advice. Eric's head is turned, much to his wife's chagrin. His conscience tells him he can't walk...
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How far would you got to protect what you believe in?
Eric Ward agrees to represent the interests of a local environmental campaign. Then an explosion at the industrial-waste plant leaves his client dead.
Joe Paulson wasn't exactly a criminal. But his after-hours activities-gathering the secrets of everyone from politicians to high-flying businessmen-created a long list of enemies. But who feared the nightwalker enough to kill him? And could Ward...
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MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS
Eric's wife, Anne, has followed the advice of handsome lawyer Mark Fenham and invested a small fortune in a merchant bank also involved in underwriting marine insurance. Now her company must pay out a vast insurance claim for the Sea Dawn, a ship sunk in Spanish waters. Eric Ward smells fraud.
His wife could lose everything.
And then, one by one, people connected to the Sea Dawn start to die. The murderous trail takes Ward...
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Past and present explode in murder.
A counter-terrorist organization stops the murder of a French politician in the Pyrenees. The would-be assassin is killed at the scene. He has a disturbing tattoo on his arm.
Eric Ward meets Ben Shaw at a bankers' dinner. Ben hires him to look into his old rival and Eric's ex-wife's probable new lover, Jason Sullivan. Jason's disappeared and so has the money for a project he was working on.
DCI Spate is looking...
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OBSESSIONS CAN TURN DEADLY.
Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschell. He's an ex-professional footballer charged with dealing drugs at a Newcastle racecourse.
Eric secures bail for his client. He also precipitates a murder investigation.
While defending Barschell, Eric antagonizes one of the prosecution witnesses, DCI Charlie Spate.
Can the two men work together to try to resolve this mess?
This time Eric's client has connections that stretch...
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Dark dealings in the city of London
Eric Ward is still uneasy on the board of merchant bankers Martin & Channing. Their defense against a hostile takeover is pushing the limits of the law.
But Eric soon has problems nearer home: his wife's colleague is charged with the murder of his fiancée in his London flat. He asks Eric to represent him.
Eric discovers some very interesting facts about the dead woman. Then Eric is called back to London to deal...
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Arnold Landon finds himself drawn into another bitter dispute over land—in which a defenseless old woman pays the ultimate price.
To the casual observer, Penbrook Farm might seem like a ramshackle hovel, buried deep in the woods of Northumberland.
But to fragile old Sarah Ellis, it's home. And the developers can have the place over her dead body.
Of course, no one ever expected it to come to that...
Least of all Arnold Landon, the peaceable...
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When wealthy Colonel Delamere dies after a botched burglary it's up to Eric Ward to manage his estate-and catch the killers.
But the Colonel's will contains perplexing instructions for the disposal of an ancient Egyptian statuette, first discovered by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. The artefact was supposed to be handed to the Foreign Office-but it was stolen by the burglars.
The allegedly cursed statuette could change the course...
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A thriving law practice and a happy marriage are almost enough to convince solicitor Eric Ward he has overcome his painful past and started a new life.
All it takes is the wrong client for it all to unravel.
An investigative journalist beaten to a pulp.
A crooked Newcastle businessman living the high life in France.
A woman from a half-forgotten past.
Former police officer-turned-solicitor Eric Ward represents Eddie Stevens, an investigative...
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Don't miss the final book in the bestselling Eric Ward series. It's a cracker!
A dangerous killer with a penchant for the Zodiac symbols is abducting, torturing, and murdering women. Eric Ward and Sharon Owen are in court defending the man accused of these crimes, and due to a technicality, the suspect walks free. But is he really guilty?
Meanwhile, DCI Charlie Spate is tracking the alleged Zodiac Killer but loses his trail. Eric receives an urgent...
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Author Ken Andrews is never at home to callers. He has one purpose in life. His book. But someone is determined it will never see the light of day …
Andrews is found dead in his own living room. His head blown to bloody smithereens. Who will finish what the dead man started? The publisher turns to Arnold Landon. And why wouldn't he pick up the mantle? Everyone tells him it's safe. The police have their man for Andrews' killing. But the closer Landon...
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AN OFFER TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Former police officer-turned-solicitor Eric Ward is recovering from a serious eye operation when the offer comes in.
Come down to London.
Help Philip Scarn, a successful entrepreneur, break into the North East.
Get paid handsomely doing it.
On the journey, Ward is nearly killed. At the other end of a phone call, a shadowy voice warns this is just the beginning. Then a young woman is murdered. Ward finds himself caught...
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PIRACY, CONSPIRACY … MURDER?
An influential shipping firm, Goldwaters, pays Eric Ward a large retainer to work for them, much to his surprise. Then one of the Goldwaters fleet, the Sierra Nova, is "arrested" and is unable to leave port.
The reason?
A crew member, Edwards, has been caught in possession of drugs and is accused of smuggling-but now he's been removed from the ship, why can't the voyage go ahead?
Then Edwards is murdered on his way...
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Two lovers murdered in a midnight tryst.
Late one night, Lynne Anderson reveals to her lover that she has something to tell him. And it's not just pillow talk. But before she can spill her shocking secrets, a shooter silences her and her lover for ever.
A colleague who vanishes without a trace.
Meanwhile, her husband Kevin Anderson has disappeared, leaving behind only a partial report on the ancient tower houses he and Arnold Landon are reviewing....