When historian and amateur detective Lawrence Lightfoot gets a call from the eccentric Didier Lemaire, he reluctantly agrees to a meeting that will change both men's lives forever.

Lemaire claims that the shocking death of Charles McIntyre can't be properly investigated by the police. McIntyre, an American businessman, friend and business partner of Lemaire, was found bound, beaten, and dead in his rented apartment. Lemaire insists that Lightfoot's unique detective skills and discretion are vital to finding the culprits.

After a meeting with police, Lightfoot decides to take...

Trying without much success to heal from a personal tragedy of months before, Lawrence Lightfoot is rocked from his stupor by an explosion that rips through the hotel where he's staying in Nice, France, killing scores. Then, in an accidental meeting with at least one of its intended victims, a charismatic ex-mercenary leader, Gavin Morley, Lightfoot is dragged still further away from the dark reflections that have held his life hostage.

The blood soaked sun of Nice, the fall-shaded streets of New York, the dark alleys of Istanbul, the fog-bound waters of the Dardanelles, and the...

In the loneliness of the windy, wet, semi-wild coast of northern Brittany, Jack Turner, nearing fifty, is looking for a last chance. An unemployed American journalist struggling to resurrect his life from the soul killing stress of war, drink and divorce, he has cast his fate to the winds that blow in from the indifferent sea, borrowing a derelict lighthouse from an old friend and attempting to put his nearly desperate and silent soul into the words of a novel. Instead, he winds up putting his heart into the hands of a brilliant, beautiful and younger woman who is something of a mystery to...