Therese RaquinThr? se Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character drawing which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply

DI Sasha Dawson

Antony Maitland was brought in for the defense

George Hooker is a physicist in search of a missing colleague

Sharing their full journey for the first time

The job looked simple: to protect the naive daughter of an investment banker from a ruthless gang of kidnappers

and sometimes of unimaginable cruelty

he doesn't like people touching his stuff - it's the principle of the thing

A QUEEN IN MORTAL DANGER Bruno is tasked with going undercover to join the conspirators

then California is the Violent Ward

until you literally want (along with Rue herself) to scream from the tension

seized by the Spanish in 1587

the former head of the organisation