Rory Clements Books in Order

On the eve of the 1936 Munich Olympics, detective Sebastian Wolff is ordered to find a vanished film star – who also happens to be Joseph Goebbels’s mistress. As more people disappear, his search from glittering parties to grim backstreets exposes how deadly it is to challenge power in Hitler’s city.

In the harsh winter of 1947, Britain’s battered intelligence services fear a Soviet mole with access to atomic secrets. Senior MI5 officer Freya Bentall turns to outsider Tom Wilde, sending him into gangland clubs, artistic salons, and extremist politics to unmask a traitor before disaster hits home.

Munich, 1935: young English aristocrats flock to the city’s lakes and beer halls, ignoring the violence beneath the swastikas. When a high‑born British girl is murdered, detective Sebastian Wolff must solve the case under Hitler’s gaze, outwitting secret police and Nazi loyalists in his own family.

Months after V‑J Day, a Japanese submarine surfaces off England, unloads a secret cargo, and blows itself apart. As a village is sealed off by a mysterious illness, Tom Wilde is dragged from peacetime back into MI5’s world to hunt a bioweapon plot – and the ‘English Führer’ behind it.

The war is over, but rumours insist Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker. Sent into shattered Germany with a vengeful Dutch Nazi‑hunter, Tom Wilde moves through camps, ruined cities, and interrogation cells to test every lie and sighting and finally learn who really died underground.

When Prince George, Duke of Kent, dies in a suspicious air crash after a secret meeting with a Nazi cousin in Sweden, American intelligence refuses to accept it as an accident. Cambridge spy Tom Wilde follows clues from Scotland to Stockholm and London’s back rooms to uncover what really happened.

In autumn 1941, with Britain reeling, Tom Wilde is asked by American intelligence to slip into Germany and smuggle out a mysterious ‘package’ that could end the war. Hunted across a Nazi police state, he discovers a secret so explosive he isn’t sure the Allies should wield it.

Summer 1939 finds Tom Wilde holidaying in France and slipping an old student out of an internment camp just as tanks roll into Poland. Back in England, a honey‑trap murder and the sinking of the liner Athenia pull him into a deadly scheme that could decide whether America enters the war.

On the eve of war in June 1939, Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory races to unlock nuclear fission while the Nazis do the same. When a brilliant physicist is murdered and a Jewish child vanishes from a Kindertransport train, Tom Wilde chases spies and saboteurs from Cambridge to Berlin and Ireland.

Cambridge historian Tom Wilde is pulled from his books when a former student is found dead with a silver syringe in her hand. As Europe slides toward war, his inquiry into her last days in Berlin leads to murdered aristocrats, secret cabals, and a plot that reaches the heart of government.

As wealthy Catholic idealists secretly plan to kill Elizabeth and free Mary, Queen of Scots, John Shakespeare infiltrates their circle as Walsingham’s top intelligencer. When the woman he loves is accused of murder, he must save her and the realm, uncovering corruption close to the royal court.

In this prequel, a younger John Shakespeare undertakes his first missions for spymaster Francis Walsingham. Sent to test the security of Mary, Queen of Scots’ prison and root out Catholic treason in his native Warwickshire, he finds the line between loyalty and family perilously thin.

Spanish troops land on the Cornish coast and rumours of a new Armada spread, just as John Shakespeare’s network of spies is picked off one by one. Tasked to find a maddened young woman once brutalised by exorcists, he uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from Fenland prisons to the queen herself.

Under threat of a second Spanish Armada, Dr John Dee has built a revolutionary spyglass that could secure England’s seas. Sent north to guard Dee, John Shakespeare finds poisoned nobles, murdered priests, and a Bohemian stranger, forcing him to choose between family loyalty and duty to the crown.

Days before Christmas, John Shakespeare is called to a snowdrift where a naked corpse lies crowned with holly and shot in the back. When he recognises the dead man as a Venetian courtier with dangerous connections, a seemingly strange killing becomes a web of passion and treachery.

London, 1593: with plague in the streets and anger simmering against foreign refugees, a bomb rips through a Dutch church. John Shakespeare, working for Robert Cecil, must track the bombers through seditious pamphlets, street gangs, and rival courtiers before xenophobic violence tears the city apart.

In 1592, former spy John Shakespeare is dragged from his quiet life as a schoolmaster when Robert Cecil orders him to retrieve explosive papers from the ambitious Earl of Essex. Navigating court factions, Catholic plots, and threats to his own family, he must uncover who truly serves the queen.

In 1587, intelligencer John Shakespeare is ordered to investigate the ritualistic murder of a royal cousin and protect Sir Francis Drake from an assassin. As Spain prepares to invade and plots swirl around Mary, Queen of Scots, he hunts a killer through brutal Elizabethan London.