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Liz Carlyle volume 10
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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A man lies dying in a hospital in upstate Vermont. The nurses know only that he is an academic at a nearby university but they have been instructed to call the FBI should anyone visit their patient. News of this suspected Russian illegal soon reaches MI5 in London where Liz Carlyle has been contacted by a top secret source known as Mischa who is requesting a clandestine rendezvous in Berlin. Meanwhile in Brussels a Russian sleeper agent who has lived...
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D.C.I. Daley volume 2
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English
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This book is the much anticipated sequel to Whisky from Small Glasses, the first of the D.C.I. Daley novels. James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and conviction. But now, five years later, he is apparently back from the grave, set on avenging himself on those...
3) Murder house
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English
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The large house on the beach front in Bridgehampton has an infamous history. An elderly couple died in a fire that destroyed the building, but everyone in town knows that the fire was no accident - it was murder. The house was rebuilt, but the horror of the events that took place there still remains. And now two more dead bodies have been found in the ill-fated house - a young couple brutally killed. The police arrest local resident Noah Walker, but...
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When the brilliant young painter Marianne Glass is found dead in her snow-covered Oxford garden, Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, knows it wasn't an accident. Rowan's pursuit of the truth takes her into every corner of her old friend's life, from Bohemian East London to the professional art world in which Marianne made her name. The deeper she goes, the more she is convinced that something is terribly wrong. Is someone breaking in to Marianne's...
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Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2015
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English
Description
Hush, hush, hush Here comes the Bogeyman ... London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs and cafes, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with good-time girls -- and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone. Out on the streets, something...
6) The whites
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Every cop has a personal 'White': a criminal who got away with murder - or worse - and was able to slip back into life, leaving the victim's family still seeking justice, the cop plagued by guilt. Back in the 1990s, Billy Graves was one of the Wild Geese: a tight-knit crew of young mavericks, fresh to police work and hungry for justice, looking out for each other and their 'family' of neighbourhood locals. But then Billy made some bad headlines by...
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Series
Joe Pickett volume 17
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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'The plane circled in the dark. Down below, Joe Pickett could just make out a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. Joe knew that he might be their next target.' The Cates clan's history with the Picketts is about to come full circle. Viciously. Game warden Joe Pickett struck a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April was endangered. But it wasn't a killing...
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Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Haunted by the disappearance of his mother when he was eight years old, detective Hud Matthews begins his own investigation to find out what really happened so many years before. When a rare murder occurs in the lakeside community, Hud's veteran skills are called upon to capture the killer. Pulled deep into the threads of the community with ties to the past, Hud quickly becomes a target, not only of the killer, but of those who wish the past to be...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Francis O'Neill is a terrorist, trained to kill for his cause. Bridget is his wife, expected to be loyal and stand by her husband. She has learned not to hope for much more, until the day she glimpses, for the first time, the chance of a new life. A life without violence, without secrets, and without knocks on the door in the dead of night. A life without her husband. But what if freedom for Bridget means grave danger for Francis?
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips. � Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He?s just sunk his last $200,000-a clandestine ?loan? from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill-into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme...
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Series
The Quinsigamond Quintet volume 2
Publisher
No Exit Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The scene is Quinsigamond, a decaying New England factory town, a model locale of turn-of-the-century chaos. An activist priest meets a grisly death in his own cathedral. The crime has all the hallmarks of a routine Bangkok Park gang killing. But the perp is no everyday low-life but a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in search of the jammers, particularly the infamous O'Zebedee brothers who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their singular...
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Under Suspicion volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fianc� - famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III - fifteen years ago. And Casey claims - has always claimed - she?s innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living ?under suspicion.? Her story attracts the attention of Laurie Moran and the�Under Suspicion�news team - it?s Casey?s last chance to finally clear her name, and Laurie pledges to exonerate her....
13) Her every fear
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Following a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend, Kate Priddy makes an uncharacteristically bold decision after her cousin, Corbin Dell, suggests a temporary apartment swap - and she moves from London to Boston. But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery: Corbin's next-door neighbour, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered. When the police begin asking questions about Corbin's relationship with Audrey, and his neighbours...
14) Hand of God
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Series
A Scott Manson thriller volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The beautiful game just got ugly. In Athens, where London City is set to play Olympiacos in the Champion's League, the temperature is high, and tempers even higher. Greece is rioting and manager Scott Manson is keeping his team on a tight leash. There must be no drinking, no nightlife and no women. After the game, they are to get back to London refreshed and ready for a crucial match at home stadium Silvertown Docks. But Scott didn't plan for death...
15) Manhunter
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Following a botched operation in Afghanistan, Bowman is recruited into 'The Cell', a covert unit within the SAS working alongside the police - a unit so secretive most of the other guys in the Regiment don't even know it exists. Their mission - to tackle international organised crime that threatens British interests. In a world where the Russian government is the real mob, it is the job of the Cell to take the fight to the enemy. But when a notorious...
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Pemberley Presents volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Preorder a gorgeous Regency novel from Eliza Austin, perfect for fans of Bridgerton! Pemberley Presents... After an absence of twelve years, Dominic Sanford returns to his dilapidated estate on the borders of Pemberley a troubled man. Journals have recently come into his possession that bring into question the accident that killed both of his parents and suggests they could have been murdered. Dominic will know no peace until he discovers the truth....
17) Crash land
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run. Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some unwanted attention, and his life is changed forever. Set against the brutal, unforgiving landscape of Orkney, CRASH LAND is a psychological thriller steeped in guilt,...
18) Missing
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Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Jack Searle is an American widower, bringing up his two stepdaughters alone in the border town of Laredo after losing his wife to cancer. Jack often takes the girls to visit their Mexican family over the border in Nuevo Laredo. Marina, the elder sister, persuades him to let her go there without him one night, to attend a concert with her cousin Patricia. When the two girls disappear and never come back a frantic hunt for them begins, with Jack leading...
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Simon Serrailler volume 10
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English
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On the face of it DC Simon Serrailler has had time to recuperate after the violent incident that cost him his arm - and nearly his life. He is back in harness at Lafferton CID but is spending his spare time high up in the cathedral roof, making drawings of the medieval angels which are being restored. Lafferton is going through a quiet patch, so far as crime is concerned, until one rainy night two local men open their front door to a couple seeking...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Today is day 364. 364 days since my last night of sleep. 364 days since my son, Mason, was taken from his bed. The police have stopped looking. My husband wants me to move on. But I need to keep his story alive. Someone knows what happened to my son. And I?m going to find them. It?s been a year since Isabelle Drake?s son, Mason, disappeared from his bedroom. Since then, she hasn?t had a full night of sleep. Everyone else has moved on - the detectives,...
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