Andrew Rosenheim

Secret treaties and games of cat and mouse: a choice of recent crime fiction

James Wolff, Jonathan Ames, Simon Scarrow and Andrew Taylor are among authors reviewed by Andrew Rosenheim

A 17th-century view of Dover Castle by Henry Hulsberg. The castle, and Charles II’s Secret Treaty of Dover, feature in Andrew Taylor’s The Royal Secret. Credit: Getty Images
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