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1) Bedlam
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES In a world gone mad, who can you trust? Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad. The wife of a notorious criminal has been admitted to a private psychiatric hospital and can no longer testify in his upcoming trial. Without her, their case...
2) Redemption
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Amos Decker volume 5
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English
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FBI consultant Amos Decker discovers that he may have made a fatal mistake when he was a rookie homicide detective in Redemption. Back in his home town, he?s now compelled to discover the truth in the latest memory man thriller in David Baldacci?s international number one bestselling series. Decker has returned to Burlington, Ohio, for a special reason. It would have been his daughter Molly?s fourteenth birthday. Molly was brutally murdered four years...
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Joely tells other people?s secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she?s used to scandal - but this just might be her strangest assignment yet.�Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she?s ready to set the record straight and to right a wrong that?s haunted her for forty years.�Freda?s memoir begins with a 15-year-old girl falling madly in love with her teacher. It ends in a way Joely could never possibly have imagined.�As...
4) Blood song
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Roy and Castells volume 3
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco?s Spain, as Roy & Castells hunt a monstrous killer ? in the lastest instalment of Johana Gustawsson?s award-winning series Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco?s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women?s prison, Therese gives birth to a...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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100 Books by Black Authors
100 Books by Black Women
Booker Prize Nominated
Murder Mystery - World Book Night
100 Books by Black Women
Booker Prize Nominated
Murder Mystery - World Book Night
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As smart and murderous as Killing Eve, My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third...
6) Rip tide
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Liz Carlyle volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov. After an undercover operative connected to the case...
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The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries volume 3
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English
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Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him - a man who also claims also to have received...
8) The match
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Wilde volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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As a young child, Wilde was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. He is known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. But when a match at an online ancestry database puts him on the trail of a close relative - the first family member he has ever known - he thinks he might be about to solve the mystery of who he really is. Only this...
9) Geneva
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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'An outstanding debut - ingenious, fast-paced and unpredictable.' HARLAN COBEN 'An atmospheric, icily tense thriller.' Telegraph 'Geneva is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. And I've read quite a few.' A. J. FINN A SPECTACULAR DESTINATION THRILLER WITH HEART Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's disease as her father: memory loss, even blackouts. So she is reluctant to accept...
10) No reserve
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Dick Francis Novels volume 12
Publisher
Zaffre
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English
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THE HIGHER THE STAKES, THE DEADLIER THE RISK . . . THE BRAND NEW 2023 THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE RACING THRILLER - NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER IN HARDBACK, EBOOK & AUDIOBOOK. Theo Jennings is a young auctioneer at the Thoroughbred sales ring in Newmarket. The October yearling sales are where the big money exchanges hands in frenzied auctions: millions of Guineas paid for horses that are as yet unnamed, untested, and have never taken a step on...
11) The dilemma
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It's Livia's 40th birthday and she's having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who's studying abroad. But although Livia loves Marnie, she's secretly glad she won't be at the party. She needs to tell Adam something about their daughter but she's waiting until the party is over so they can have this last happy time together. Adam wants everything to be perfect...
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Serpent's Tail
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English
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How well do you know your girlfriend? How well do you know your lover? How well do you know yourself? Daniel and Victoria are together. They're trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he and Ruby make contact. At first the messages are polite, neutral - but soon they find themselves revealing more and more about themselves. Their deepest fears, their darkest...
13) Triple crown
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Dick Francis Novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Jefferson Hinkley, undercover investigator, is off to America to embark on his most dangerous case yet.
14) Private Delhi
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Private volume 13
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English
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Jack Morgan has managed to persuade Santosh Wagh to rejoin his global investigation agency and set up a new branch in Delhi. It's not long before Santosh is thrown headlong into a dangerous case which could implicate the highest members of the Indian government in a string of brutal murders.
15) Unsettled ground
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their...
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Albert Campion Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Black Thorn
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Albert Campion was contemplating visiting his wayward artistic niece in Carfax. And when a missing schoolteacher reappeared after nine days, and Campion's car was "inadvertently" damaged, not to mention Campion himself, then all the signs were that not all was what it seemed. Campion himself plays the central role in this quintessentially British mystery, but there are appearances too from all of Margery Allingham's regular characters, from Luke to...
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine. Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger, who seems to share all of her husband's interests, are real? What could she do, and would anyone even believe her? Maybe,...
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lepena, read by Hillary Huber. ********** We can?t choose the strangers we meet. As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell?s Inn, they?re all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in the forest, miles from anywhere. They watch their fellow guests with interest, from a polite distance. Usually we can avoid the people who make us nervous, make us afraid. With a violent...
19) Gallows Court
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LONDON, 1930. Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths - the details too foul to print - has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake - the enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge - is no ordinary woman. To Scotland Yard's embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she's on the trail of another killer. Jacob Flint, a young...
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** From the Sunday Times bestselling author 'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY 'The perfect novella. . . I was not prepared for the shocking revelation.' 5* reader review 'All the Christmas cheer & nostalgia wrapped in a gothic murder mystery. I loved it!' 5* reader review 'Filled with lots of twists. . . the perfect one sitting read.' 5* reader review 'A perfect small jewel of a story.' 5* reader review 'I GASPED at several of...
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