Capital Punishment

  The Silent and the Damned

  The Blind Man of Seville

  The Company of Strangers

  A Small Death in Lisbon

  A Darkening Stain

  Blood is Dirt

  The Big Killing

  Instruments of Darkness

  Copyright

  An Orion Books ebook

  First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Orion Books

  This ebook first published in 2013 by Orion Books

  © Robert A. Wilson Limited 2013

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  ISBN: 978 1 4091 4314 7

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