Robert Goddard

Robert Goddard was our Guest Editor in March 2011 - click here - to see the books that inspired his writing.

Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire. He read History at Cambridge and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a full-time novelist. His bestselling novels are: Past Caring, In Pale Battalions, Painting the Darkness, Into the Blue (winner of the first WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award and dramatized for TV in 1997, starring John Thaw), Take No Farewell, Hand in Glove, Closed Circle, Borrowed Time, Out of the Sun (a sequel to Into the Blue), Beyond Recall, Caught in the Light, Set in Stone, Sea Change, Dying to Tell, Days Without Number and Play to the End, Sight Unseen, Name to a Face, Found Wanting, Long Time Coming and Blood Count.

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Blood Count Robert Goddard One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011. One of my favourite authors returns to his classic mystery style where the protagonist’s comfortable life is severely disrupted by his past catching up with him. In this case the... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Blood Count Robert Goddard April 2011 Book of the Month. The breathtaking new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross and the author that other crime writers believe is the crime writers' crime writer. Utterly... Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)

Days without Number Robert Goddard Some secrets are best kept hidden...Nick Paleologus is summoned to resolve a dispute that threatens to tear his family apart. His father, Michael, is a retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium. Michael has received a... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Beyond Recall Robert Goddard Estranged from his family for most of his adult life, Chris Napier is persuaded to return home for his niece's wedding. At the reception, he is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whose presence... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Borrowed Time Robert Goddard One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Long Time Coming Robert Goddard Luckily it hasn’t been a long time coming for the next gripping Robert Goddard novel and he is on top form in this new thriller. When Eldritch Swan is released from prison after 36 years he soon finds himself caught... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)

Caught in the Light Robert Goddard August 2011 Guest Editor Deborah Lawrenson on Robert Goddard... Caught in the Light was the first Goddard thriller I read, and I simply couldn’t put it down. As with all of his novels, the tale is compelling, twisty and packed... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Found Wanting Robert Goddard This is Goddard back in the area I prefer him in, the contemporary thriller with strong historical undertones. Here the mystery revolves around the authenticity of Anastasia and her possible survival. If that were so then were there descendants? Full... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)

Sight Unseen Robert Goddard One of my very favourite authors with a mystery that twists and turns through a plot that straddles 23 years and has the search for a 17th century book at its centre. You must read this first chapter, it’s stunning.... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/10/2005 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Play to the End Robert Goddard Goddard at his best in this tale about a business cover-up, romantic entanglement and the thespian world. Enjoy it for yourself or give it as a Christmas present. He’s one of our favourites. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2004 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)