Free: The King Was In His Counting House

A South London chancer stumbles across a hundred year-old mystery when a rich and beautiful woman asks him to find her missing husband. He finds himself in a world he barely understands, of cryptography and cryptic puzzles, of secret funds and great power politics. And most puzzling of all, what was the connection between a murder, a small, exclusive bank and what one royal biographer described as the most perplexing act of King George the Fifth’s reign: The abandonment of a loyal ally and much-loved cousin, Nicholas the Second, the last Tsar of Russia, to degradation and death? Nicholas, the Tsarina Alexandra, their four daughters and their son were executed by the Bolsheviks in July 1918 after George refused to allow them to come to live in England. Free on Kindle.