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The Other Woman by Graham Thomas, Brandenburg #2 Abigail Hardwoode is content – the London Social Scene offers everything a seventeen-year-old girl could want. She has little concern for other people’s problems, least of all those in France where great civil unrest threatens to erupt into bloody revolution… but while the oppressed masses rise up, a new insidious organization emerges and it seems that Abigail’s parent are incriminated. Only British secret agent Hilary Weaver believes the Hardwoodes to be innocent. Suddenly Abigail is pulled from her peaceful existence and thrust into the chaos of Revolutionary France on a mission with Hilary to clear her family name… but the call of the Revolution and the injustice she witnesses may be too power for Abigail to ignore. I think around somewhere this time last year I was firstly introduced to the books of Graham Thomas. Starting with “Hats off to Brandenburg”. I couldn’t find any fault in this book and was just hooked from...

The Devil has ridden out. Montana’s most feared outlaw has left his secret lover, Maria, alone in their secluded house deep in the wilds. If he had known that she was pregnant the Devil might have stayed. That was almost nine months ago and Maria is still awaiting her lover’s return. But while Maria waits for the Devil, a vengeful band of gunslingers are hunting him. Led by the relentless Rickman Chill, the gang have ventured deep into the dark wilds of Montana and they will stop at nothing to bring the Devil to justice. It is not long before the Chill gang happen upon a lone house in the woods where a pregnant woman seems to be the only inhabitant. Vengeance is a dangerous game, but as the Devil said to Maria before he left her: “There is nothing more dangerous than lovers”. Maria and the Devil is the third book by Graham Thomas, of whom I have had the pleasure of reading both Hats off to Brandenburg and Kiss Me I’m Dying. This book however is way, way different than ...

London, 1815 – The Roxy Playhouse is in trouble! The Roxy Playhouse Irregulars, those libertine artists and dreamers, are up to their necks in debt – “Pay up in one month or its curtains for you all.” Dark times lead to drastic schemes and so the Irregulars decide to reinvent themselves as ‘performance thieves’, infiltrate High Society and ‘Robin Hood’ their way through it. However, getting embroiled in a dark and deadly plot to destroy the Monarchy was never part of their script. The Roxy Irregulars will have to stage the performance of their lives if they want to save the day and make it home in time for last orders. Hats off to Brandenburg is the first book of a new series entitled The Roxy Compendium and written by Graham Thomas. It assumed that the series will run to a total off 12 books, 6 featuring a large ongoing adventure and 6 smaller spin-offs which will concentrate on several characters from the “Brandenburg” universe. When I first read the synopsis I h...