Russell's ebook Library
Another Death in Venice
Reginald Hill
Trouble strikes a group of tourists in ItalySarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice — Italy's most romantic city. But so far the trip hasn't been especially romantic. Michael has little patience fo...
Captain Fantom
Reginald Hill
A historical novel inspired by the life of a Croatian mercenary in seventeenth-century EnglandIn the chaotic days of the early 1600s, Carlo Fantom, a Central European who spoke thirteen languages, would gladly accept payment to fight, no matter the c...
The Castle of the Demon
Reginald Hill
A woman on the run from her husband encounters danger in a seaside townEmily Salter is once again using her maiden name, living with her dog in a town along northern England's coast that she remembers fondly from childhood holidays. Her intention was...
The Collaborators
Reginald Hill
From the bestselling author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series, a superb novel of wartime passion, loyalty – and betrayalWhen Janine Simonian was dragged roughly from her cell to face trial as a collaborator in the days of reckoning that followed the l...
Death Takes the Low Road
Reginald Hill
A novel of spies and suspense in Cold War ScotlandWilliam Blake Hazlitt is in hiding on Scotland's picturesque Isle of Skye, roughing it in a canvas tent and watching tourists from a distance through binoculars. His disappearance has not raised any a...
Fell of Dark
Reginald Hill
A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he's going in search of something or running away.Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there's no doubt about it. He's ...
The Forging of Fantom
Reginald Hill
The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenaryCarlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages — a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal services to any party w...
The Long Kill
Reginald Hill
Where better for a hitman to retire than in the Lake District, where the air is healthy and the scenery spectacular? And when Jaymith meets attractive young widow, Anya Wilson, he can't believe his luck. But Jaysmith soon discovers that settling down...
Matlock's System
Reginald Hill
A national Expectation of Life seemed liked a good idea at the time. Nearly half a century ago, Britain's overpopulation resulted in a collapsing economy that foretold certain doom. The visionary solution was left to then–Prime Minister Matthew Matlo...
No Man's Land
Reginald Hill
Brotherhood and brutality among a band of World War I desertersA small group of soldiers, led by an Australian named Viney, has fled the trenches of the Western front. Now they scavenge to survive in the desolate area known as no man's land.One of th...
The Only Game
Reginald Hill
When a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is no routine investigation.Something about the child's mother troubles him. Maybe it's the fact that she comes from Derry, and ...
Red Christmas
Reginald Hill
Have Yourself a Dickensian Christmas! That's what the Dingley Dell, a secluded hotel in the English countryside, promises. Arabella Allen is eager to partake in the dancing, skating, and spiked punch — especially with Boswell, Dickens scholar and cha...
Singleton's Law
Reginald Hill
England has become an isolated wasteland ruled over by football hooligansThe British Parliament has been dissolved. Now the nation is divided among four soccer clubs: City, United, Wanderers, and Athletic, constantly and violently at odds with one an...
The Spy's Wife
Reginald Hill
Molly Keatley is a happy housewife living comfortably day-to-day in Westcliff-on-Sea. That changes in a heartbeat when her husband, Sam, grabs his suitcase, offers a hurried "I love you," sprints out the door, and disappears from her life. Then, a Br...
The Stranger House
Reginald Hill
Things move slowly in the tiny village of Illthwaite, but that’s about to change with the arrival of two strangers.Sam Flood is a young Australian post-grad en route to Cambridge. Miguel Madero is a Spanish historian in flight from a seminary. They h...
There are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union
Reginald Hill
In suburban Luton, a private detective on his first case discovers that curiosity can kill more than just the cat...Meanwhile, in wartime Boulogne, one officer will do anything to ensure that his men are ready to kill for their country...And in Stali...
Traitor's Blood
Reginald Hill
An international fugitive is faced with a vexing choiceLem Stanhope-Swift, the sixth Viscount Bessacarr, has been living in Venezuela, keeping his distance from the British authorities ever since an embezzlement charge landed him in a spot of bother ...
A Very Good Hater
Reginald Hill
Years after WWII, a pair of veterans believe they've spotted a Nazi in disguiseIn postwar England, Goldsmith and Templewood see each other once a year at reunions of their regiment. Goldsmith is a local politician now, while Templewood is a gregariou...
The Woodcutter
Reginald Hill
Wolf Hadda’s life has been a fairy tale. From his humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter’s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the woman of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Univers...
