Oxford 2006: a young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut. Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an apparently ancient gold coin. Twenty-four hours later, another dead woman is found. The MO is identical, except this time her brain has been removed, and a silver coin lies glittering in the bowl of her skull.
The police are baffled, but when police photographer, Philip Bainbridge and his estranged lover, Laura Niven become involved they discover that these horrific, ritualistic murders are not confined to the here and now. And a shocking story begins to emerge which intertwines Sir Isaac Newton, one of seventeenth-century England's most powerful figures, with a deadly conspiracy which echoes down the years to the present day; as lethal now as it was then.
Before long those closest to Laura are in danger, and she finds herself the one person who can rewrite history; the only person who can stop the killer from striking again.
Equinox was Michael White's first novel, it reached the Sunday Times Top 10 in the UK and was translated into 35 languages. Buy Equinox
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In the crypt of the Medici Chapel in Florence, palaeopathologist, Edie Granger, and her uncle, Carlin Mackenzie, are examining the mummified remains of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy.
The embalmers have done their work well in terms of outward appearance. But under the crisp skin, the organs have shrivelled to a fraction of their original size, which means it is difficult to gather a usable DNA sample. Both Edie and Mackenzie have serious doubts about the true identity of at least two of the five-hundred-year-old bodies.
And no one can explain the presence of an alien object discovered resting against Cosimo de'Medici's spine.
For Carlin Mackenzie, this is the most fascinating and the most dangerous discovery of his life. For Edie, it is the beginning of an obsessive, life-threatening quest. Buy The Medici Secret
When a blackened skeleton is unearthed on a building site in the City of London, no one could have the slightest idea of its extraordinary link to a plot to assassinate the Queen of England over 500 years ago.
But there is one very conspicuous clue. On the index finger of the body's right hand is a gold ring topped with a brilliant, round emerald.
DCI Jack Pendragon has just transferred from Oxford to Brick Lane police station - in part to escape his own past. Immediately, he finds himself investigating three particularly gruesome murders. And he will need all the experience he has acquired over two decades on the force to track down a killer for whom an eerie obsession has become total madness. A killer who draws his murderous inspiration from a Renaissance family whose power and cruelty remain a living legend. Buy The Borgia Ring
In all his years on the force, DCI Pendragon has never seen a murder quite like this one.
It isn't the bizarre arrangement of the body found in a London art gallery that has Pendragon and his team reeling, it's the meticulous arrangement of an apple in the hole where the corpse's face used to be. The reference to surrealist painter Magritte is horrifyingly clear.
Twenty-four hours later, the police have a second grotesque killing on their hands. This time, the crime scene emulates a famous Dali painting, The Persistence of Memory. Someone is turning murder into an art form…
And it's not for the first time. More than a century earlier, the citizens of Whitechapel in London's East End lived in fear of another artist with a knife. Though Jack the Ripper was never caught, his teaching lives on.
Now, in the twenty-first century, Jack has a gifted and bloodthirsty apprentice… Buy The Art of Murder