Evita Bezuidenhout might be the most famous white woman in South Africa, but her younger sister Bambi, the blonde Afrikaans girl who married a Nazi and became a stripper in the fleshpots of Europe, has a much juicier story to tell. In her autobiography, assisted by Pieter-Dirk Uys, Bambi traces her journey from the Orange Free State to Europe, South America, the USA and back to a democratic South Africa. On the way she gives haircuts to The Beatles in Hamburg, travels with Hemingway in Spa...

An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the phone. After bumping into an old acquaintance, he is invited to join a dinner party in full swing. But, just as the dancing and champagne are overflowing, a morbid announcement is made and the lights go out. By...

"The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown." —Mirror (UK)When a man's death at the United Nations turns out to be more than just an accidental shooting, unsuspecting Tom Byrne is plunged headlong into a deadly world of hidden fellowships, unforgivable crimes, and a 60-year quest for justice. From Sam Bourne—the #1 international bestselling author of The Righteous Men and The Last Testament—comes this fast-paced, gripping, and provocative thriller exposing the la...

**Now in one volume—the first three novels in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling historical mystery series starring hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther...“A Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings. Bernie walks down streets so mean that nobody can stay alive and remain truly clean.”—John Powers, Fresh Air (NPR)**Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went free...

Detective Griessel must solve a cold case to stop a shooter in this thriller from the acclaimed South African author.Two police officers have been shot, and the Cape Town homicide department has received emails from the shooter alleging the cover-up of an unsolved murder. If the cold case isn't reopened immediately, the shooter's carnage will continue.Now Det. Capt. Benny Griessel is out to solve the crime in question: the murder of an ambitious lawyer stab...

She left everything behind to follow her heart …The enthralling true story of a British war bride after World War II.June Baker saw the American soldier walking toward her. In the gray of wartime England, he looked out of place—as if a blond movie star had just dropped out of the sky. They had a whirlwind courtship, and June fell in love with and married Borgy, the handsome GI from St. Charles, Missouri. She eagerly anticipated her new life in America. But when the...

'Beautiful... Just BEAUTIFUL!!!!... Sad, happy, completely captivating and tear jerking!!! A five-star PLUS read... Stella Knightly you are amazing!!!!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Couldn't put this down read it in five hours!!! Such a good story!!!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Can I uncover the secrets Berlin is hiding?People come to Berlin to let loose.Now I'm one of them.But this city is also full of hidden secret...

In this "fine mystery . . . British expat/private investigator in West Africa, Medway is as fully realized as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe" ( Publishers Weekly).In West Africa's underworld, nothing is sacred and no one is safe. Even its most experienced denizens can get caught off guard, as fixer-for-hire Bruce Medway discovers when a case gone wrong entangles him in toxic-waste scams, mafia money, and—worst of all—a quest for vengeance.After ...

  "I was in bed with my brother's wife when they came to tell me he was dead."   Gerhard Herold, a young East German has lived in his brother's shadow for years. Wolfgang Herold had been stationed in London, a senior export executive for East Germany's toy manufacturing industry. The news that he is to be his dead brother's replacement in London makes little sense to Gerhard, but at least the new job will give him the opportunity to...

In her first book, There's A Bear In There, Merridy Eastman led us into the forbidden world of a Sydney brothel where she once worked as a nervous receptionist. In Ridiculous Expectations she packed us into her suitcase and took us on her British book tour where, instead of finding Mr Darcy as promised, she was swept off her feet by a tall German called Tom. Who knew?In How Now Brown Frau Merridy plunges headlong into a new life in Bavaria where she takes...

The poignant and unforgettable true account of the deep, loving friendship between a handsome physician and the former First Lady, as seen on PBS's The Roosevelts: An Intimate History"I love you as I love and have never loved anyone else." —Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter to Dr. David Gurewitsch, 1955She was the most famous and admired woman in America. He was a strikingly handsome doctor, eighteen years her junior. Eleanor Roosevelt first met David ...

Book 4 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carré and Robert Harris.Praise for Aly Monroe'Monroe creates the atmosphere of the time brilliantly . . . I was gripped from start to finish' Literary Review'Riveting stuff' The TimesSent to Manhattan as part of the British effort to build intelligence into the new United Nations Organisation 'from the foundations up', Agent Peter Cotton wakes up in the Ogden Clinic on East...