The Riptide: From Sunday Times bestselling author Gareth Rubin comes a dazzling mystery in which one man’s past is written in blood - but his future is still unwritten

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Turnglass.Perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Stuart Turton. A dazzling, puzzle-box mystery of secrets, power and hidden truths1804, Isle of Ray, Essex.Lysander Rose has spent his life searching for the truth about his mother, abducted when he was just a baby. When the men who took her return for him, Lysander is forced to flee - leaving behind everything he knows.But in his escape, he uncovers a clue that draws him into the orbit of a secretive organisation known only as the Circle. As Lysander follows the trail from the Essex coast to the shadowed streets of Edinburgh, he finds himself entangled in a world of murder, blackmail and political intrigue.At its centre: an exiled king, and a conspiracy that could shape the fate of nations. And stranger still, the secrets of Lysander’s own past seem to be hidden in the pages of a lurid penny-blood chapbook - a story that may hold the key to who he really is. But as the truth of his origin