Bony and the Black VirginWhen Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun baked, sand blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there both black and white leads him inexorably towards the killer

This is quite an enchanting story of a colony of gnomes who live in the vast Forest of Boland

How are these families linked

Suspenseful and heart-breaking

Why is their progress dogged by a mysterious man of war

and soon finds himself tangling with enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain

The ceremony is cruelly interrupted

Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary

the most notorious murderer in England

No one - black or white - will be spared

But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a beautiful woman called Graciela Rivers comes visiting his dock

'The warmest

The Pope wants to prove Henry as worthy of beatification