In the treacherous environment of the Roman Civil War, a beautiful young seeress and a confidante of the rich and powerful is found murdered. Obsessed with her image, Gordianus the Finder starts to investigate the murder of this woman about whom no-one seems to know very much at all.
A Golden Age-style murder mystery set amid the Mitford household, based on a real unsolved crime and written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the Downton Abbey books, The Mitford Murders is a glittering start to a thrilling and glamorous new crime series.
*Generation X poster girl for depression (Prozac Nation) and celebrator of 'difficult women' (Bitch), Elizabeth Wurtzel is back with the searingly honest tale of her descent into Ritalin addiction and her eventual recovery
Luke is a failure - until one day a different kind of catastrophe occurs. The man in front of him at the post office queue drops down dead. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice.