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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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Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favourite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her 'missing' boyfriend....
2) 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...
3) Redemption
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Series
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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English
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From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder—only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney will be left breathless by this unforgettable thriller that builds to a shocking conclusion...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television...
5) 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...
6) 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...
7) No reserve
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Dick Francis Novels volume 12
Publisher
Zaffre
Language
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...
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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...
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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...
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Ben Hope volume 29
Publisher
HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre Scott Mariani?s pulse-pounding thrillers mix action, adventure, conspiracy and ancient secrets with modern mysteries and cutting edge tech - and at the heart of it all: a hero you?ll never forget. To his many thousands of fans, ex-SAS officer Ben Hope stands tall as a warrior, a protector of the innocent, a defender of those in need, relentless in his pursuit of those who exploit others or prey...
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY When Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed but lonely American studying in London - is invited to spend Christmas with her classmate's family at their Cotswolds manor house, it seems like a perfect country idyll. And for Ashley - who records it all in her diary - there's the added romantic potential of her friend's twin brother, Adam, who she thinks could be her wildest dream come true. But is there something strange about the old...
12) 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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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race.But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh.Soon, however, the crew discovers that their greatest mystery - and most dangerous threat - is an unexpected force aboard the ship wielding a thirst for blood and terror?Also included are five additional...
14) Rip tide
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Liz Carlyle volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Language
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...
15) Birnam Wood
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Granta Books
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English
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer,...
16) Triple crown
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Series
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.
17) 1979
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys' club to take her seriously. Allie and fellow junior reporter Danny Sullivan aren't afraid to raise hackles as they expose the underbelly of respectable Scotland. But shining light into the darkness creates powerful enemies. When Allie comes up with a plan...
18) Private Delhi
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Series
Private volume 13
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world?s finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only person he can trust. Still battling his demons, Santosh accepts, and it?s not long before the agency takes on a case that could make or break them. Plastic barrels containing dissolved human...
19) Gallows drop
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Series
DCI Kate Daniels volume 6
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she's forced to step aside when DCI James Atkins is called in to investigate. There's bad blood between them. When Kate discovers that Atkins' daughter was an eyewitness to a fight involving the victim, the two detectives lock horns and he's...
20) Yellowface
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The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The new book from the no. 1 New York Times and no. 2 Sunday Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang Athena Liu is a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour But as evidence threatens June?s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she...
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