Robert Goddard: Name to a Face (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
When Tim Harding agrees to do a friend a favour by bidding for an antique ring at an auction on his behalf, he is unaware of the secrets tied up with it - secrets that date back three hundred years.

But the ring is stolen before it can be sold, and a shocking murder follows. Harding is quickly thrown into a web of conspiracies surrounding the ring's origins. As he draws closer to the heart of the mystery, he comes across a young woman he is certain he recognizes, even though they have never met.

But as he goes in search of her identity, his life begins to fall apart. Somewhere, a perilous truth awaits him, coupled with a terrible realization: those who uncover that truth cannot be allowed to live...

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face. Corgi, ISBN: 9780552164993 (October, 2011), 441 p., £7.99.

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
He'd seen her somewhere once -- he was sure of that. But the young woman gave no hint of recognition and before this could be explained, everything fell apart.... Tim Harding has come to Cornwall at the behest of a friend to represent him in an auction and facilitate the purchase of a much-coveted antique ring. Hayley Winter has come there for reasons of her own... and a centuries-old mystery is about to come crashing down around them both.

A decade before, a woman matching Hayley's exact description died in a suspicious diving accident -- at the side of the man giving Harding his orders. Now the ring, said to have been cut off the finger of a drowned British naval commander in 1707, is at the center of a many-tendrilled puzzle. Uncanny resemblances... stunning contradictions... Then Hayley's sudden disappearance... For Harding, one misstep and a handful of coincidences ignite a search through dozens of lives, back into English history and the age of the Black Death, and forward to a fatal meeting in Germany... to find Hayley, her true identity, and the most shocking secret of all.

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face. Delta, ISBN: 9780385342179 (June, 2009), 342 p., $15.00.

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
When Tim Harding agrees to do a favour for a friend by bidding on his behalf for an antique ring at auction, little does he know of the secrets that tie the ring to three tragedies: the sinking of HMS Association off Scilly in 1707, a murder in Penzance thirty years later and the drowning of a journalist diving at the Association wreck site in 1999.

But the ring is stolen before it can be sold, and a shocking murder fallows. Harding is quickly drawn into a web of conspiracies surrounding the ring's origins and finds, close to the heart of the mystery, a young woman he is certain he recognizes, even though they have never met. As he goes in search of her identity, his life begins to fall apart. Somewhere, a perilous truth awaits him, coupled with a terrible realization: those who uncover that truth are not allowed to live...

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face. A centuries old mystery is about to unravel... Corgi, ISBN: 0552152129 (July, 2008), 471 p., £6.99.

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
When Tim Harding agrees to do a favour for a taxe exie friend by representing him at an auction in Penzance, he is unaware of the secrets that tie the ring he is sent to buy to three widely separated events: the loss of HMS Association with all hands off Scilly in 1707; an unsolved murder in Penzance thirty years later; and the seemingly accidental drowning of a journalist diving at the Association wreck site in 1999. Very soon he discovers that by taking on this apparently simple task he has allowed himself to be drawn into a web of conspiracies.

The ring is stolen before it can be auctioned. The murder that follows may not be the first - or last - in a series designed to conceal crucial facts about the ring's origins. Close to the heart of the mystery stands a young woman whom Harding is certain he recognizes, even though they have never met before. His life begins to unravel around him as he goes in search of her identity - and of his own place in the hidden scheme of things. Somewhere, a perilous truth awaits him, coupled with a terrible realization: those who uncover that truth are not allowed to live...

Robert Goddard: Name to a Face. Bantam Press, ISBN: 0593053672 (September, 2007), 352 p., £14.99.