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Join accidental sleuth, Nick Morris, in his second mystery in The Art of Murder series. When an offer to paint a beautiful Georgian house in the Peak District falls into Nick Morris' lap he jumps at the commission. Businessman Derek Swann is selling up and wants a landscape to remember. But Nick's plans for a quiet stay in the countryside are scuppered when he and his chalet neighbour Megan Lamplighter find a body in the woods surrounding the holiday park. Rick Parrow seemed to be a troubled young adult, with a dark cloud following him around in recent days, so when it turns out he was murdered, Nick feels compelled to seek out the truth. What was bothering Rick in the days before his death? What exactly was his connection to the bear-like figure of Jez Cooper, who was staying in a chalet up from Nick? And who could possibly have wanted the boy dead? Nick's attention is pulled in every direction - from his work at the manor house, and its captivating housekeeper Adela - to the many unsavoury characters now circling the holiday park and paying a little too much attention to Nick's movements. Nick must act fast if he wants to get out of this in once piece!

Struggling artist, Nick Morris paints pet portraits to pay the bills but is always just one big commission away from the big time. Which is why he agrees to paint the reluctant, hot-tempered hotelier, Jason Robart. But when he finds Jason dead, and the hotelier's shady business associates come after Nick, he wishes he'd stuck to painting cats!

March 1557 Jack Blackjack is back in London enjoying a sedentary life. But his new parish of St Helen's has different ideas for him. . . a week after laying eye on the tempting Miss Rachel Nailor, she turns up horribly dead on the church vestry floor. . . and someone is trying to frame him for her murder!

August, 1556. Jack Blackjack is on a simple mission: make it back home to his beloved London. He's made it as far as Exeter, where he's faced with a dead priest and a devious Dean who's determined to see the back of him. So when a wealthy merchant offers passage to London via sea, Jack jumps at the chance . and unwittingly into further danger!

July, 1556. En route to France and escape from QueenMary's men, Jack Blackjack spends the night at a Devon tavern, agrees to a gameof dice - and ends up accused of murder. Alone and friendless in a lawless landof cut-throats, outlaws and thieves, Jack knows that the only way to clear hisname - and save his skin - is to unmask the real killer.

London. May, 1556. Hal Westmecott reckons Jack Blackjack owes him a favour, and orders Jack to track down his long-lost son - and although it seems an impossible task, Jack's in no position to refuse. But as his search progresses, Jack comes to realize he is an unwitting pawn in a mesh of schemes dreamed up by the most powerful people in England.

Having been ordered to kill a man, former cutpurse turned paid assassin Jack Blackjack determines to save him instead. But Jack defies his spymaster at his peril ... and even the best-laid plans can sometimes go awry. When it appears that Jack has killed the wrong man, he reluctantly finds himself drawn into affairs of state.

Jack Blackjack stands accused of killing a priest in the wickedly entertaining new Bloody Mary Tudor mystery. April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the roadside - and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find out who really killed the priest - but this is an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Was it a random attack by a desperate outlaw, or do the answers lie in the murdered priest's past? As he questions those who knew the dead man, Jack is faced with a number of conflicting accounts - and it's clear that not everyone can be telling him the whole truth. But Jack is about to be sidetracked from the investigation ... with disastrous consequences.

Jack's employer believes there is a spy in the princess's household and Jack has been ordered to kill her. He has no choice but to agree but, when he arrives, he discovers that a murder has already happened. Jack needs to prove his innocence by uncovering the real killer, but who is hiding a secret? And will Jack survive long enough to find out?

The first instalment of a thrilling new crusader series in the style of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell.