Böcker av Roger Hardy

Artcore is a murder mystery set in the gay worlds of Amsterdam and Brighton. The shadows of Tim Mitchell's past haunt him and he wants a new start in life. Amsterdam is his choice; it's gay, it's free but, best of all, it's not England. A chance visit to an art gallery triggers a train of events that are outside his control and leave death in their wake. Artcore is a stylish thriller set in Amsterdam's gay world as Tim tries to discover who is destroying his life.

A document is found in a Vatican archive and the search is on for the Eye of Sayf-Udeen, a fabled casket containing holy relics. The trail ends in Portugal, the last refuge of the Templars. The Vatican has waited seven centuries to regain the casket but there are sinister forces at work with a far older claim. Father Afonso finds himself at the centre of a struggle for ownership that has tragic consequences as his allegiance to family and vocation are tested. Set against a backdrop of the Algarve, the Eye of Sayf-Udeen is a tale of discovery, betrayal and greed, combining intellectual treasure hunt with adventure in a tale that is both historically engaging and exciting. The Eye of Sayf-Udeen is a sequel to Roger Hardy's first novel: Miracle in Carvoeiro.

A new light jet disappears over the Saudi desert. It should have been the safest aircraft in the world so air accident investigator James Hayward is sent to investigate. What he discovers leads him into web of intrigue and political corruption. He finds himself alone, pitted against a new brand of terrorist; one that is ruthless, resourceful and organised but with friends in high places. Set in the post-Bin Laden Middle East, this story is a fast-paced but thought-provoking thriller.

Axel and Dieter are student friends, united in the philosophy of Nietzsche and the certain knowledge that God is dead. Yet, somewhere in their city is the first Jewish prophet for two millennia, writing down the words of God. The body of a young woman is dragged from the Rhine. A drunken night turns to tragedy when student caper turns into murder and a Jewish moneylender is dead. The two deaths set off a sequence of events that test their relationships with family and friends and change their lives forever. Set in Weimar Germany at the time of the birth of Nazism, this mystery has murder at its heart. But philosophy as its core.

Everyone has a past. In the case of Rui Fernandes it is a closed book and he is trying to write a new one. Carvoeiro is the kind of Portuguese fishing village where fishing no longer takes place. It has everything essential to village life; an accident-prone guesthouse owner, eighty-five restaurants, testosterone-fuelled police, illegal Brazilians, an ex-beauty queen who wants to open a sex shop. It also has a dusting of drugs, a crippled old lady and a young girl who has been touched by God. Against a backdrop of a pilgrimage over which the Church has lost control, the tapestry of this story interweaves different threads; sunshine and sangria, love and the oldest profession, illegal drugs and murder. Rising above this is the unanswered question: has there been a miracle?

Offers the reader a subtler grasp of today's Islamic societies and their discontents, explaining how the autocratic policies of many states in the Middle East inadvertently bolster the popularity of political Islam. This work also explains the political role of Islam in particular countries and regions - Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, and Europe.