London, summer 1889.Nine months have passed since Inspector Flint killed Jack the Ripper.Now the murders have begun again.Across the capital, bodies are being discovered in scenes of escalating savagery, each killing more depraved than the last. To a terrified public, there can be only one explanation: the Ripper has returned, and his death toll now stands at nine.But Flint and Locke know the truth.Jack the Ripper is dead.And yet the new murd...

The acclaimed author of From Jesus to Christianity reveals how—and why—the gospels were written in this groundbreaking work of Biblical scholarship.The greatest story ever told was honed like any good performance, on the road in front of audiences. In Scripting Jesus, acclaimed scholar of early Christianity L. Michael White demonstrates that the gospel stories of Jesus were never meant to be straightforward historical accounts, but instead they we...

In this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author, exclusive detective agency Private opens a new office in Australia—and before there's time to settle in they find themselves in the middle of a deadly murder case.With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation company quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private Sydney throws ...

Step into the London of Sherlock Holmes.The streets of Victorian London were the perfect hunting ground for the world's greatest detective. Behind respectable front doors lay dark secrets. Fog drifted through gas-lit streets. Hansom cabs rattled across the cobbles while criminals, policemen, politicians and ordinary Londoners crossed paths in the busiest city on Earth.This book explores the real London that inspired the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.From Ba...

The Haunted History of BritainGhosts, Legends and the Places That Refuse to ForgetAcross ancient roads, ruined abbeys, battlefields, castles, mines, railway stations and ordinary homes, generations have reported footsteps without bodies, phantom processions, spectral animals, warning apparitions and the restless dead. Some ghosts return to reveal murder or injustice. Others guard graves, repeat the moment of their death or linger because the living have never allow...

The city of The Rook—population 152,000 (not counting the undead—and many don't)—is a curious mix of an Elizabethan and Victorian city with a fair sprinkling of intrigue and magic.The city of The Rook is where the four schools of Thaumaturgy can be found. These comprise of Hydromancer's (water), Pyromancer's (fire), Circumancer's (air), and last (but definitely not least) Terramancer's (earth).The Rook is the home of Erisa and Calico, the cat (who isn't actually a cat at al...

The Curse of the Missing Boot: A Tale from The RookThe Booger Curse is back—grouchy, supernatural, and with a proven track record in sudden fatalities. Upon the treacherous and poorly-drained wastes of Bogmoor Moor, the final English heir to the house of Booger has been most frightfully slain—scared to death, the coroner suggests, by a spectral hound of considerable discourtesy.Hope arrives in unlikely form: one Wyatt Booger, recently located in the wilds of Texas,...

Three coffins. Four corpses. Buried secrets do not sleep forever...London, 1888. The city is choking on fog, fear, and whispers of murder. Inspector Morven Flint finds himself drawn into a series of killings as grim as they are grotesque. Each victim is connected by blood to a darker chapter of London's past: the Resurrection Men, the ghoulish body-snatchers who once fed the dissecting tables of the city's medical schools.Now, decades later, their descendants are b...

In the aftermath of the Martian invasion that nearly brought Earth to its knees, a new threat looms in the shadows. The Martians, defeated by Earth's tenacious microorganisms, have been vanquished, but the danger remains. Unseen conspirators from Earth aided the invaders and now plot to send bacterial samples to Mars. Their nefarious aim is to assist the Martians to conquer the microscopic foes and then return to Earth as unstoppable conquerors.Victorian London, scarred by the inva...

Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Hairyass, there was an Age undreamed of when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Hyperbolea and Bongia with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Stingia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Funkia whose riders wore mantles of silk and gold. But the proudest Kingdom of the world was Aquaviti, r...

Echoes of Britain: Stonehenge: Sun, Stone and Mystery explores the story of Britain's most famous prehistoric monument, from its earliest earthworks and cremation burials to the raising of the great sarsens, the long journey of the bluestones, the mystery of its alignments, and the many myths that have gathered around it.Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, this accessible and atmospheric history brings Stonehenge to life not as a frozen ruin, but as a monument shaped...

Have you ever wanted to know what it feels like,too lose everything and everyone only to fine yourself