White DogHer name was Sarah Longmore and she was charged with murdering her former lover. When Jack Irish is asked to look into Sarah Longmore's defence, he's more than happy to oblige. After all, whenever somebody seems as guilty as Sarah does, it's usually for a good reason. But her case will prove far from straightforward, and Jack's investigation far from swift and painless.

In the event of his death

1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness

and apparently so traumatised by what he witnessed while he was away

'Donna Leon has been giving unto us for all of the thirty years since Death at La Fenice introduced us to Brunetti' Val McDermid

They could not resist Saladin

a German Bank

No spy had done more to damage the KGB

Determined to succeed

the characters are as substantial as a down home breakfast of biscuits and ham with red-eye gravy

That's how the estate agent described the old toll house on the edge of the town

hostile tribes and the cold touch of betrayal yet his troubles have only just begun

The years of hurt in an era of professional meat shields