Ned Beauman Books in Order

A London dealer in Nazi memorabilia stumbles onto a crime that leads him into an obscure history linking a fascist entomologist and a Jewish boxer. His investigation follows their strange obsessions across decades, exposing dangerous experiments in breeding, identity and desire.

In 1930s Berlin, frustrated stage designer Egon Loeser begins a journey through Paris and Los Angeles in pursuit of love and answers. His obsession with a Renaissance theatrical disaster draws him into mysteries where science, history and personal disappointment collide.

A meeting at a South London rave becomes entangled with events stretching from Pakistan to New Jersey and Burma. As a global conspiracy converges on a small Camberwell flat, apparently disconnected encounters reveal the forces shaping an increasingly dangerous mystery.

Two rival expeditions reach a Honduran Mayan temple in 1938, one to film a comedy and the other to dismantle it. Twenty years into their stalemate, a CIA agent arrives with plans that uncover a far stranger conspiracy.

A mining executive and a biologist search near-future Europe for a fish that may already be extinct. Both have urgent reasons to find it, but their uneasy alliance leads through damaged landscapes toward a conspiracy larger than either expects.