Robert Goddard, Author Poseidon Press $21.5 (331p) ISBN 978-0-671-75072-5
Goddard's seventh novel (after A Debt of Dishonor ) about two dapper English con men in the 1930s, gets off to a droll and snappy beginning. Aboard ship after narrowly escaping prosecution for a financial scam in America, Guy Horton and Max Wingate...
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Robert Goddard. Mysterious, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2656-6
Set shortly after the action of 2016’s The Corners of the Globe, Edgar-winner Goddard’s solid third James Maxted thriller finds the former English WWI flying ace in Japan pursuing the enemies responsible for the death of his diplomat father: German...
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Robert Goddard. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2522-4
Set in 1919, Edgar-winner Goddard’s second James Maxted thriller casts the former English flying ace in the role of a double agent, ostensibly working for German spy master Fritz Lemmer, whom Max, who’s really taking orders from the British secret...
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Robert Goddard. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8021-9104-5
The Paris peace talks of 1919 provide the backdrop for Edgar-winner Goddard’s enjoyable first in a trilogy featuring James “Max” Maxted, “late of the Royal Flying Corps.” When Max’s father, aging diplomat Henry Maxted, is found dead outside his...
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Robert Goddard, Bantam, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-34362-6
At the start of Goddard's highly entertaining suspense novel, London civil servant Richard Eusden is contemplating "the predictable day and unsurprising week that lie ahead" one Monday morning outside his office in Whitehall. Then Richard's ex-wife,
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Robert Goddard, Author Henry Holt & Company $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6155-0
British writer Goddard has achieved a steady readership here with his atmospheric novels (Into the Blue; Beyond Recall) in which characters unravel a mystery in their pasts. Photography illuminates his new narrative as it spirals from a simple tale...
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Robert Goddard, Author Bantam Books $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-75070-1
Stiff, archaic dialogue and an overreaching plot that snakes from contemporary England back to the Spanish Civil War makes this lengthy novel of psychological suspense by Goddard ( Debt of Dishonor ) slow going. The action begins with the murder of...
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Robert Goddard, Author Poseidon Press $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64947-0
When a strange man appears in William Trenchard's garden in St. John's Wood, one evening in 1882, and claims to be the former fiance of his wife Constance, Trenchard's whole life is overwhelmed. James Davenall had been missing, declared a suicide,...
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Robert Goddard, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (501p) ISBN 978-0-312-00173-5
Written in clear, resonant prose, Goddard's first novel, nominated for the Booker prize, is a poised telling of a complex tale. A fascinating ""could this be true?'' story within a story is reminiscent of Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time, while...
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Robert Goddard, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5110-0
As he does so smoothly and so well (Out of the Sun, etc.), Goddard again creates a narrator who uncovers secrets buried in the past that cast grim shadows on later generations. Here he takes classic English mystery staples--a grand old house in...
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Robert Goddard, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5109-4
Goddard's bestseller status in Britain rests on his ability to tell a suspenseful story--usually one in which dark secrets come to light--in a literate style. His ninth novel revisits Harry Barnett, the ill-starred protagonist of the well-received...
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Robert Goddard, Author . Bantam Dell/Delta $12 (397p) ISBN 978-0-385-33922-3
Goddard's excellent line of British psychological thrillers gets its long-deserved christening from an American publisher with this novel, to be released simultaneously with Into the Blue
as part of a six-book relaunch. The plot springs from a...
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Robert Goddard, Author Poseidon Press $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70484-1
British writer Goddard ( Into the Blue ) is a notably literate and imaginative practitioner of the novel of romantic suspense. His books generally feature a long-buried, often tragic secret that is brought to light after complex twists and turns of...
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Robert Goddard, Author Poseidon Press $19.45 (415p) ISBN 978-0-671-70482-7
In a suspenseful, classy narrative that affords first-rate entertainment, a young English schoolteacher, Heather Mallender, vanishes on the Greek island of Rhodes. With her at the time was Harry Barnett, who at age 53 feels his life to have been a...
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Robert Goddard, Author Holiday House $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64945-6
Set in England during and after WW I, this is the story of three generations: the two Leonoras, mother and child (and their husbands, both handsome, adoring, young army officers), and of Penelope, who at length unravels the twisted skeins of her...
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Robert Goddard, Author Bantam $15 (420p) ISBN 978-0-385-34361-9
In this irresistible thriller full of deceit, duplicity, and vengeance, British author Goddard (Name to a Face
) shifts effortlessly between 1976, when 68-year-old Eldritch Swan, thought killed in the Blitz, resurfaces from 36 years in an Irish...
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Robert Goddard, Author . Delta $12 (342p) ISBN 978-0-385-34217-9
Tim Harding, the hero of this smoothly plotted novel of suspense from British author Goddard (Play to the End
), makes an unlikely sleuth. The owner of a “middling garden maintenance and landscaping business†in Monaco, Harding agrees to travel...
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Robert Goddard, Author . Delta $12 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-34063-2
At the start of British author Goddard's well-crafted new thriller, Harry Barnett, the almost too unprepossessing hero of Into the Blue
and Out of the Sun
, returns to his hometown of Swindon, where he gets unexpectedly swept into a reunion of
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Robert Goddard, Author . Delta $12 (294p) ISBN 978-0-440-24280-2
This compelling stand-alone thriller from British author Goddard (Play to the End
) opens in 1981 with the kidnapping of two-year-old Tamsin Hall and the hit-and-run death of Tamsin's seven-year-old sister, Miranda, in the ancient town of...
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Robert Goddard, Author . Delta $12 (342p) ISBN 978-0-385-33918-6
A moderately successful actor gets caught up in the role of a lifetime in this gripping thriller from British bestseller Goddard (Sight Unseen
). Playing the lead in a recently discovered play by the late Joe Orton that's trying out in Brighton,
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Robert Goddard, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64948-7
After James Davenall has been presumed dead for 11 years, a man claiming his identity appears, throwing the lives of his family and former fiancee into confusion.``Goddard goes from strength to strength in terms of invention, and this exciting story,
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Robert Goddard, Author, Donna Ng, Editor Pocket Books $22.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-671-89092-6
British novelist Goddard's thriller of deception and conspiracy takes place in Europe between the world wars. (Jan.)
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