Amidst the complexities of broken relationships, loss, love, betrayal and sudden freedom, this group of very different women must work together to find a way through.\r\n\r\n Despite the chaos of war, behind closed doors they fight more personal battles.
Karen is put in charge of the case, a case not made easier by the fact that the victim is Jounass ex-wife, Susanne. \r\n\r\nFinding no obvious motive for the killing, Karen must dig deep into the islands history in order to solve the case.
But when a mutilated body is discovered in a Cotswolds house, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary group of opportunist thieves.\r\n\r\nAs Detective Jack Warr investigates, he discovers locals with dark secrets, unearths hidden crimes - and hits countless dead ends.
Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Huis stepmother, the great sorceress Ipsetnofret, and Huis own brother Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Huis father, condemning Hui and seizing power in the city.\r\n\r\nCast out and alone, Hui finds himself a captive of a skilled and powerful army of outlaws, the Hyksos.
And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.
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'Extraordinary - moving, confronting and uplifting .
He thinks he knows the rules.\r\n\r\nBut when Gils estranged sister Clare dies in a hit-and-run, he begins to believe it was no accident. One of them might have got her killed.\r\n\r\nAs election day approaches, Gil follows the story into the dark web of interests that link politics, finance and the media.