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Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for 60 years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong. This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William's bedside, covered in his blood - a friend, a mistress,...
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When Mark commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished jockey, comes in second, he can't help but be suspicious. Clare should have easily have won. Did she lose on purpose? Was the race fixed? That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, but she storms off after an explosive argument. It's the last time Mark sees her alive.
10) The second wife
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Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Disliked by her new family, sidelined at family gatherings and now a mother of twins herself, Minty is struggling with disappointment and a crisis of identity. But the biggest obstacle of all is Rose - her husband's ex-wife.
11) Complicit
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When you find the body of your murdered lover, what do you do? Bonnie Graham calls her best friend and asks for help getting rid of it. But that's hardly the action of an innocent woman.
12) Thursday's child
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When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn't allow to destroy her. Then, years later, an old classmate appears in London asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter and long buried memories resurface. Death soon follows, leaving Frieda no choice but to return home to...
13) The yard
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2012
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London, 1889. The body of a policeman is found in a suitcase, his eyes and mouth sewn shut. A team of Scotland Yard's finest, including new recruit Walter Day, investigate the killing of one of their own. But the death toll has barely begun.
14) The promise
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When Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the trenches of Northern France, she knows she cannot stand idly by awaiting his return. Volunteering to help the wounded, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. There, tragedy brings her face to face with Etienne, a man from her past.
15) Absolution
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In 1984, PC Alan McAlpine was given a simple job. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after an acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. He has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and back in time.
16) One day in May
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Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy with her life. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at boarding school and she's enjoying a fling with a younger, very sexy man. But all that changes one fine day in May.
18) The way we were
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2011
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Susannah and Rob were childhood sweethearts. But as with most early love affairs, they broke up, moved on and now find themselves in very different places. And not entirely happy - who is? A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives. What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance?
19) Tuesday's gone
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The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat? DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein.
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