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Wilde volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Lies are dangerous. But the truth could kill him. His name is Wilde. Thirty years ago he was found in the New Jersey backwoods with no idea of how he?d got there or what had happened to his family. Now a decorated former soldier, he still prefers to live outdoors, alone. But when a local girl goes missing, Wilde is asked to use his unique skills to find her. To do so he must return to a community where he has never fitted in, where the powerful are...
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Jack Reacher volume 15
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
There?s deadly trouble in the wilds of Nebraska ? and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it?s the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl, already decades-old, that Reacher can?t let go. Reacher - bruised and battered - should have just kept on going. But for Reacher, that was impossible. What, in this fearful rural county, would be worth dying for?....
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English
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Then: Ellie Mack was many things. She was 15. She was the youngest of three. She was her mother's golden girl. She was heading towards a perfect post-exams summer holiday, with her whole life ahead of her. And then, she was gone. Now: Laurel Mack is living in the past. It's been 10 years since Ellie disappeared, and Laurel's never given up hope of finding her daughter. But now, she no longer has a choice in the matter. It's time to let go. And then...
5) Home
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English
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A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day,...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Caroline Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears those words on the other end of the phone. Instantly, she's thrust 15 years into the past to the night her two-year-old daughter went missing from a hotel room and her whole world came tumbling down. The memories of that time are still painful.
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Series
Varg Veum volume 18
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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September 1977. Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised by Mette is never found. Almost 25 years later, as the expiry date for the statute of limitations draws near, Mette's mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last,...
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DI Fawley volume 1
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English
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How can a child go missing without a trace? Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew. That means someone is lying ... And that Daisy's time is running out. Introducing DI Fawley and his team of Oxford detectives,...
9) Silent child
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son?s red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river and drowned. His body was never recovered. Ten years later, Emma has finally rediscovered the joy in life. She?s married, pregnant and in control again ... until Aiden returns. Too traumatised to speak,...
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English
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15 year old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is until the day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. With their grandmother seeming to have little interest in her grandson's disappearance, and the police soon giving up hope, it is left...
11) My husband's son
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Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago, Heidi's daughter was murdered. A year later, Jason's son Barney disappeared. Their shared loss brought them together. By chance, Heidi meets a boy she's certain is her husband's long-missing son - but Jason is equally convinced it's not him. Is Heidi mad? Or is Jason hiding something? And can their fragile marriage survive Heidi's search for the truth ... ?.
12) Foxglove summer
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Series
Rivers of London volume 5
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It?s purely routine - Nightingale, Peter?s superior, thinks he?ll be done in less than a day. But Peter?s never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up, he volunteers his services to the local police who need all the help they...
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, 8-year-old Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift. While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel embarks on an extraordinary journey, one...
14) The guilty man
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Series
Lennox and Wilde volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A little girl, presumed dead, turns up playing happily in the park. She is barefoot but otherwise unharmed. The child?s mother who lives on a notorious local estate doesn?t seem bothered that her daughter has returned alive. Meanwhile, a man is tortured by a ruthless criminal. The victim?s severed hand is left on his wife?s doorstep. Detective Harry Lennox and DI Jess Wilde investigate. How do the cases connect and who is using threats to drive people...
15) Hello, universe
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.' Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, growing up in a distant suburb in Australia surrounded by encroaching bushland. That summer, the hottest on record, was when the Van Apfel sisters - Hannah, the beautiful Cordelia and...
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Series
The Dark Star Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE REVOLUTIONARY DARK STAR TRILOGY IS HERE! Booker Prize-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology and fantasy to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch and a mystery with many answers . . . Part adventure, part chronicle of an indomitable woman - the witch Sogolon - who bows to no man, this is an unforgettable exploration of power, personality, and the places where they...
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Publisher
Tindal Street
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In her early years, Allie and her bohemian mother Helena were always on the move. Now Helena keeps people at arm's length: relationships never last and old friends have slipped away. But when Allie inherits Helena's childhood home, she begins to see snatches of the tormented past her mother has been running from. Determined to find out what keeps driving her mother away from people, Allie follows a lead to the beautiful island of Ischia. Here she...
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In Death volume 55
Language
English
Description
Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, is a good girl from a good family. Walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania, she disappears. Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood. Lt. Eve Dallas knows that whoever abducted Mina is responsible for her death. But who took her - and just where has Mina been for eight long months...?
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Series
The Dark Star Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology,...
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