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Catrin Collier

    January 1, 1948

    Writing under the pen name Katherine John, this author's work is deeply rooted in her native Wales, a place she returned to after periods spent living and working in Europe and America. Her narrative style explores the complexities of human experience, offering a distinctive perspective on life and identity. Her literary contributions resonate with a profound connection to place and the inner lives of her characters.

    Winners and Losers
    Scorpion Sunset
    Princes and Peasants
    Winds of Eden
    Homecoming
    Long Road to Baghdad
    • 2016

      Princes and Peasants

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The second in the epic historical Tsar's Dragons series by award-winning novelist Catrin Collier, featuring the lives of Welsh and Russian settlers in the industrial city of Hughesovka, Ukraine in the 1870s.

      Princes and Peasants
    • 2015

      Scorpion Sunset

      • 392 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.0(16)Add rating

      The third novel in the Long Road to Baghdad series, Scorpion Sunset is an epic, moving account of World War One in Mesopotamia, by one of Wales' most acclaimed historical novelists.

      Scorpion Sunset
    • 2014

      Long Road to Baghdad

      • 502 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      An epic novel of an incendiary love that threatened to set the desert alight as war raged between the British and Ottoman Empires.

      Long Road to Baghdad
    • 2014

      The Tsar's Dragons

      • 553 pages
      • 20 hours of reading
      3.6(30)Add rating

      The first of a series based on the exploits of Welshman John Hughes, who founded a city in the Russian Empire, Hughesovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine).

      The Tsar's Dragons
    • 2014

      December 1915. Following heavy casualties, General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Amara, Iraq. His orders - to engage as many Turkish troops as possible in a siege situation. A relief force is hastily assembled, among them Charles Reid, Tom Mason, and Michael Downe, for each of whom the advance is personal.

      Winds of Eden
    • 2011

      VORORT DER HÖLLEIn einem beschaulichen Vorort von Cardiff hat sich ein schreckliches Blutbad ereignet: Die Verwaltungsangestellte Kacy Howells liegt auf ihrer Veranda — regungslos, mit einer Axt erschlagen. Inspector Trevor Joseph findet recht schnell heraus, dass das Opfer nicht nur Opfer war. Die auf den ersten Blick so brave Beamtin hatte ihren Nachbarn das Leben regelrecht zur Hölle gemacht. Aber auch andere Bewohner der Siedlung leben gefährlich. Nach und nach tun sich Abgründe auf …

      Regungslos
    • 2011

      Bloody Valentine

      • 132 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.5(2133)Add rating

      This year Valentine's Day isn't for romance. It's for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine's Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder.Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack's fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing's for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.

      Bloody Valentine
    • 2010

      Die schwarzen Blumen des Todes Für Inspector Trevor Joseph und seine Frau Lyn geht ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung: Die Geburt des ersten Kindes steht bevor. Trevor hat schon Urlaub eingereicht, da durchkreuzt ein brisanter Fall seine Pläne: Mit seinen Kollegen soll er die Drogengangs von Cardiff undercover durchdringen und herausfinden, wer die tödliche Designerdroge „Black Narcissus“ in Umlauf gebracht hat. Aber als Trevors Undercover-Partner einer nach dem anderen verschwinden – nur um bald als Leichen wieder aufzutauchen –, kommen dem Ermittler Zweifel, ob er die Geburt seines Sohnes überhaupt noch erleben wird ...

      Schonungslos
    • 2008

      Black Daffodil

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.9(67)Add rating

      Detective Trevor Joseph has his work cut out with the advent of a new welsh synthetically produced drug - black daffodil and it's impact on the criminal fraternities operating in and around Cardiff bay and the welsh valleys.

      Black Daffodil