He saw the body of the naked woman. She was kneeling down in the snow, head bent right over touching the ground. He felt cold just to look at her. The young woman was Rachel Tenison, a wealthy art...

It is still the War of 1812 and Jack Aubrey, with his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin, have set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to...

Wapping, London: March 1799. A sunken lugger in the Pool of London at last reveals its shocking secret. River Surveyor Tom Pascoe of the Marine Police finds the bodies of two men entombed in the...

The dramatic theft of an 18th-century painting is discovered just moments before the old manor house – uniquely depicted in the background of the portrait – goes up in flames. Coincidence?...

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a...

Victorian England's most famous consulting detective is hot on the trail of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. But in Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire, Jack is a...

'H.M.S. Surprise', the third in O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ship...

Bestselling novelist Joe Logan walks out into a hot summer's evening in central London. The next day his body is found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt at the Brompton Cemetery. He has been...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the...

For fifteen year old Gemma it is already too late. Her body is found in the nave of a church in Ealing, West London. At first all the signs were that it was a suicide. But then the autopsy...

At the Universal Advertising Agency in London a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the...

While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the centre stage; for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's...

Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the rich, unstable...

This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and...