A great love story and chronicle of women’s empowerment over the first half of the twentieth century, with the pace and excitement of a modern day thriller.

Looking back from London’s Swinging Sixties, a retired couple raise their granddaughters in blissful ignorance of reality. Their secretive and dangerous existence, positions them against the Italian Mafia in Paris and Franco’s Fascists in Barcelona, whose Catholic nuns are stealing babies from impoverished mothers. Cruelly influenced and trained by two world wars with unfinished battles still haunting their lives, how do Sam and Phaedra finally tell the truth to their naïve loved ones, even when their young lives depend on it. They are after all, professional assassins.

A roller coaster ride covering a period of sixty years around Europe; fused with Edwardian sophistication and historically based atrocities; Raymond Russell´s Deadly Endings is intensively visible and keeps the pages turning until the shocking finale.

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100 years ago suffragette Emily Wilding Davison ran onto the Epson racecourse and died.

Deadly Sin by Raymond Russell 

Set in Rome and London in 1947 and looking back to the First World War, the novel develops the characters of the protagonists from the first novel Deadly Endings in their earlier years.

The Vatican has survived the Second World War, but its cardinals are being mysteriously murdered one by one. Former escaped Nazis and the Mafia jostle for position in a changing world, where Russian Communism is taking over the vacuum left by a deflated and bankrupt Britain and an exhausted Western Europe.

Sam and Phaedra have been called in by a poverty stricken British Secret Service. Can they find the cardinal killer nicknamed the Purple Assassin? Will they get the upper hand on their old adversary Fyodor Poluostrovich from the KGB and will they discover who wants their daughter dead? It’s Deadly and it’s a Sin.