Better Than DeathWhen Matthew Cosgrave and a number of fellow students at Blackport University were acquitted of a serious crime, he felt that he could put his past behind him and look ahead to the future. Twenty years later he has done just that. Married with a loving home, his only grief is the tragic death of his young daughter. But then his best friend from college days is killed in a drowning accident. Matthew returns to Blackport for a reunion in the hope of

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But even dead

unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him

and the sense of societal change about to come

Biggles has to fly to Sydney and so it is down to Algy

His former girlfriend tells him that her daughter was his child and Dan's oldest friend has suffered a breakdown and now believes himself to be the reincarnation of an Indian chief

five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony

whose goals are constantly shifting

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Petronius finds to his dismay that his personal sympathies lie more with the mad emperor than with the forces that seek to keep him in check

and a killer who knows too much

and Brunetti must enter an inferno to discover who is poisoning the land and fouling the waters of Venice's lagoon