Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard's first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. His first Harry Barnett novel, Into the Blue, was winner of the first WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award. He lives in Truro, Cornwall. Delta will publish the next Goddard novel, Found Wanting, in 2011.
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The Ways of the World
Hardcover | 432 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06973-8 (0-593-06973-0)
August 27, 2013 | $39.95
Written by Robert Goddard
Hardcover | 432 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06973-8 (0-593-06973-0)
August 27, 2013 | $39.95
The first title in a new race-against-the-clock trilogy from the master of the triple cross.
A thrilling espionage story set in Paris after the First World War, full of classic Goddard double crosses and triple twists.
Over the past decade, every one of Robert Goddard's books has appeared on the Sunday Times bestseller...
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The Ways of the World
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06974-5 (0-593-06974-9)
August 27, 2013 | $23.95
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-593-06974-5 (0-593-06974-9)
August 27, 2013 | $23.95
The first title in a new race-against-the-clock trilogy from the master of the triple cross.
A thrilling espionage story set in Paris after the First World War, full of classic Goddard double crosses and triple twists.
Over the past decade, every one of Robert Goddard's books has appeared on the Sunday Times bestseller...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Fault Line
Paperback | 512 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16139-8 (0-552-16139-X)
March 25, 2013 | $12.99
Written by Robert Goddard
Paperback | 512 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16139-8 (0-552-16139-X)
March 25, 2013 | $12.99
The new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross.
Not all scars are visible. Jonathan Kellaway needs no reminding of that on the verge of his retirement from china clay conglomerate Intercontinental Kaolins. The company has left its mark in pits and spoil heaps around the world. But it has...
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Blood Count
Paperback | 512 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16330-9 (0-552-16330-9)
January 28, 2013 | $11.99
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved...
Written by Robert Goddard
Paperback | 512 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16330-9 (0-552-16330-9)
January 28, 2013 | $11.99
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved...
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Blood Count
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16130-5 (0-552-16130-6)
April 16, 2012 | $18.95
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16130-5 (0-552-16130-6)
April 16, 2012 | $18.95
There's no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. After his life was saved...
Painting the Darkness
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16495-5 (0-552-16495-X)
January 24, 2012 | $19.95
When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, William Trenchard is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear. The stranger announces himself as James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16495-5 (0-552-16495-X)
January 24, 2012 | $19.95
When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, William Trenchard is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear. The stranger announces himself as James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James...
Dying to Tell
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16498-6 (0-552-16498-4)
January 2, 2012 | $19.95
Lance Bradley, idling his life away in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London, to discover that Rupe’s employers want him tried for fraud...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16498-6 (0-552-16498-4)
January 2, 2012 | $19.95
Lance Bradley, idling his life away in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London, to discover that Rupe’s employers want him tried for fraud...
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Out of the Sun
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16496-2 (0-552-16496-8)
January 2, 2012 | $19.95
When Harry Barnett is anonymously informed that his son is languishing in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain there must be some mistake, since he does not have a son. But he soon discovers he does. David Venning is a brilliant mathematician, whose illness is taken to be either...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16496-2 (0-552-16496-8)
January 2, 2012 | $19.95
When Harry Barnett is anonymously informed that his son is languishing in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain there must be some mistake, since he does not have a son. But he soon discovers he does. David Venning is a brilliant mathematician, whose illness is taken to be either...
Sea Change
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16493-1 (0-552-16493-3)
January 2, 2012 | $19.95
London 1721. William Spandel is deeply in debt and desperate. Sir Theodore Janssen, director of the recently collapsed South Sea Company, Spandel's major creditor, comes to his rescue. But there is a catch. Spandrel must secretly deliver a package to Amsterdam to a man named de Vries, a friend of Janssen.
A...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16493-1 (0-552-16493-3)
January 2, 2012 | $19.95
London 1721. William Spandel is deeply in debt and desperate. Sir Theodore Janssen, director of the recently collapsed South Sea Company, Spandel's major creditor, comes to his rescue. But there is a catch. Spandrel must secretly deliver a package to Amsterdam to a man named de Vries, a friend of Janssen.
A...
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Closed Circle
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16491-7 (0-552-16491-7)
October 31, 2011 | $19.95
The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind. A chance meeting on deck brings them a tempting new target in...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16491-7 (0-552-16491-7)
October 31, 2011 | $19.95
The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind. A chance meeting on deck brings them a tempting new target in...
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Name to a Face
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16499-3 (0-552-16499-2)
October 31, 2011 | $19.95
A centuries old mystery is about to unravel…
When Tim Harding is sent by his employer to buy an antique ring at auction, little does he realize that he is about to restart a chain of events which began many years before. The ring was first lost in a sinking off the...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16499-3 (0-552-16499-2)
October 31, 2011 | $19.95
A centuries old mystery is about to unravel…
When Tim Harding is sent by his employer to buy an antique ring at auction, little does he realize that he is about to restart a chain of events which began many years before. The ring was first lost in a sinking off the...
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Hand in Glove
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16451-1 (0-552-16451-8)
September 5, 2011 | $19.95
In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster’s family—especially Beatrix’s niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patience when police quickly arrest a man Charlotte...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16451-1 (0-552-16451-8)
September 5, 2011 | $19.95
In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster’s family—especially Beatrix’s niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patience when police quickly arrest a man Charlotte...
Set in Stone
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16416-0 (0-552-16416-X)
September 5, 2011 | $19.95
In Robert Goddard's haunting mystery a strange house links past and present, a murder, a political scandal and an unexplained tragedy. Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with her sister and her husband at their house in Rutland. The house...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16416-0 (0-552-16416-X)
September 5, 2011 | $19.95
In Robert Goddard's haunting mystery a strange house links past and present, a murder, a political scandal and an unexplained tragedy. Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with her sister and her husband at their house in Rutland. The house...
Take No Farewell
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16452-8 (0-552-16452-6)
September 5, 2011 | $19.95
Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-16452-8 (0-552-16452-6)
September 5, 2011 | $19.95
Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it...
Play to the End
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-552-16494-8 (0-552-16494-1)
August 1, 2011 | $19.95
Intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the last page -- another classic Robert Goddard mystery.
Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger in the Throat. They have been on tour...
Written by Robert Goddard
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-552-16494-8 (0-552-16494-1)
August 1, 2011 | $19.95
Intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the last page -- another classic Robert Goddard mystery.
Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger in the Throat. They have been on tour...
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