Robert Goddard

Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world who are still trying to hammer out the terms of peace....

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home....

Why should Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Straford resign at the height of his career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly reject him? The answer is complex....

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case....

Harry Barnett, a middle-aged failure, leads a shabby existence....

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances....

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery.

On a stifling afternoon at police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement is handed a ticking time bomb of a case that will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France....

Paris, 1919 : mort d'un diplomate anglais. Printemps 1919. La terre entière a les yeux rivés sur Paris. C'est en effet là que se tient la Conférence de la paix, où vont se négocier tous les traités entre vainqueurs et vaincus de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Harry Barnett is informed that his son is in hospital in a diabetic coma....

The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage....

The Treaty of Versailles has finally been signed, officially ending the World War I peace negotiations, and the action shifts east to Tokyo....

Harry Barnett thought he had left his military career behind, so he is startled when two figures from his past turn up on his doorstep after 50 years....

Geoffrey Staddon turned his back on the best things in his life. Twelve years later, amidst the tatters of his career and marriage, he is forced to contemplate his betrayal....

Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope....

Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage, but Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as 50 years of secrets begin to unravel....

Recovering from the recent tragedy of his wife's death in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband at their new home - Otherways....

One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable....

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Panic Room by Robert Goddard, read by Hollie Taylor and John Sackville. Sometimes the danger is on the inside....