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A London detective finds himself apprenticed to Britain’s last wizard, turning everyday policing into a supernatural adventure.

Un forense es asesinado por una muerte violenta mientras trabaja: Adam Dalgliesh se adentra en la intimidad de los científicos vinculados a la víctima para descubrir al culpable.

Police constable and wizard‑in‑training Peter Grant is dispatched from London to rural Herefordshire to investigate the disappearance of two young girls, uncovering a mystery that may blend crime and the supernatural.

When Chloe Emery returns to her London home, she finds her mother missing and the house drenched in blood, yet no body. Detective Maeve Kerrigan must untangle a web of suspects—ultra‑religious neighbours, a re‑convicted criminal— to uncover the truth before more lives are at risk.

Peter Grant's first magical case and the beginning of his uniquely London-based police adventures.

A novice detective gains a spectral ally in London’s paranormal crime scene, revealing ancient gods, death‑resurrected evils, and a city gripped by bizarre murders.

Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. Some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds then, watched by crowds of thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public until 1868. Clearly the gallows loomed over much of social life in this period. But how did those who watched, read about, or ordered these strangulations feel about the terror and suffering inflicted in the law's name? What kind of justice was delivered, and how did it change? . This book is the first to explore what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies (rather than what a few famous men thought and wrote about them). A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd. This gripping study is essential reading for anyone interested in the processes which have 'civilized' our social life. Challenging many conventional understandings of the period, V. A. C. Gatrell sets new agendas for all students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and society, while reflecting uncompromisingly on the origins and limits of our modern attitudes to other people's misfortunes. Panoramic in range, scholarly in method, and compelling in argument, this is one of those rare histories which both shift our sense of the past and speak powerfully to the present.

Dr. Peter Grant goes south of the Thames to Elephant & Castle, where an overseas murderer and a supernatural mystery await as CID reluctantly summons his department.

In the Shetland Isles, inspector Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves investigate the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of friend Eleanor, whose obsession with a local ghost may hide a decades‑old secret worth killing for.

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In 2015, a 67‑year‑old Glaswegian cannot escape memories of a 1965 tragedy that involved five runaway teenagers chasing a dream. Now, a murder in a London flat forces him—and the past—to confront what was left unsaid.

Die London Silver Vaults gehören zu den am besten gesicherten Orten der Stadt. Und doch treibt sich hier etwas Unheimliches herum, das einem Menschen das Herz herausreißen und dann spurlos verschwinden kann. Peter Grant, der Londoner Bobby und Zauberlehrling, wird bei seinen Ermittlungen mit einem Wesen konfrontiert, mit dem noch keiner seiner Vorgänger je zu tun hatte. Sehr menschenfreundlich im Umgang ist es nicht. Aber, wer hätte das gedacht: Peters mühsam erworbene Lateinkenntnisse erweisen sich als potenziell lebensrettend ...