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1) Reflections
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Language
English
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After her husband dies, Cara no longer wishes to live in their London home. On impulse, she sells it and goes to stay with her brother in Salcombe, Devon, while she plans her next move. There, she begins to look back at her life and reflect on the choices that have led her to this moment. Cosmo has also escaped - temporarily - from his life in the city, finding the south-west a relaxing and appealing fit, especially when he meets local girl, Amy....
2) My girl
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man. She has nothing left to live for ... until she finds her husband's handgun hidden in their house. Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter's death? Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband's secrets. But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn't hers to gamble - she belongs to me.
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Series
Poirot volume 22
Language
English
Description
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. Hercule Poirot has to solve the mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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After the disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany, and only rescued by Russian soldiers arriving from the east and Americans from the west. The two superpowers divide the nation between them, a wall running through London like a scar. On the Soviet side of the wall, Jane Cawson calls into her husband's medical practice, hoping to surprise him. But instead she detects the perfume worn by his former wife, Lorelei, star of propaganda...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood - they have the perfect marriage, the perfect house, the perfect family.When the police knock on their door one evening, Beth panics. Tom should be back from work by now - what if he?s crashed his car? She fears the worst.But the worst is beyond imagining. As the interrogation begins, Beth will find herself questioning everything she believed about her husband.They?re husband and wife - till...
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Series
In death volume 39
Language
English
Description
The kitchen knife jammed into his cold heart pinned a cardboard sign to his well-toned chest. It read: Santa Says You've Been Bad!!! Ho, Ho, Ho! It's Christmas, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas is in no mood to celebrate. While her charismatic husband Roarke plans a huge, glittering party, Eve has murder on her mind. The victim - personal trainer Trey Ziegler - was trouble in life and is causing even more problems in death. Vain, unfaithful and vindictive,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through death and old age. Fran takes us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity, and visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, as well as texting her son Christopher in Tenerife, dealing with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes...
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Series
A Lady Of Ashes Mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings. Undertaker Violet Harper is invited to attend one of Mr. Brown's infamous readings, during which he implies that Buckingham Palace will soon be shrouded in death's dark veil. Well acquainted with death, Violet shrugs him off as...
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Series
In death volume 46
Language
English
Description
There's always a reason for murder. But when a young actress is killed in a swift and violent attack at a cinema screening, that reason is hard to fathom - even for Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her team.
It's only when bestselling crime writer Blaine DeLano arrives at the precinct that the shocking truth is revealed. Someone is recreating the murder scenes from her latest series, book by book. With six more novels left in the series, Eve now knows how...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
What would you do if your husband became another person overnight? 'It's a funny thing, when the future you dreamed of can never be anywhere but the past' When Molly married Alex Frazer, she knew it was forever. Theirs would be the perfect future. In sickness and in health. However, after a night out with his twin brother, Graeme, a terrible injury leaves Alex with permanent brain damage. In a single moment the man she married is transformed into...
11) Desire line
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Publisher
Parthian Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A freak tidal surge hitting a Welsh seaside town leaves devastation and three locals drowned. Yet when a fourth body is found in the debris it takes time for it to be identified as the respected Oxford writer Sara Meredith. A celebrity, an icon to an entire generation - what was she doing in such an unlikely place? And how had it ended in her death?These mysteries overwhelm the lives of people Sara has left behind: estranged husband Josh, their volatile...
12) Harold
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Language
English
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Description
In the days of mourning following the death of her second husband Nardy, Maisie took comfort from the company of the little boy called Harold. Now a year on, she has decided to adopt him, to the delight of his family and Harold himself.
13) Winter wedding
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Series
The Rockwood Chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Don?t miss the brand-new Christmas read from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!As the first Christmas snowflakes fall, Rosalind finds herself pregnant and alone?Christmas is coming to the village of Rockwood. But the happiest time of the year is marred by the news that Rosalind Blanchard?s husband, Piers, is close to death after a shipwreck at sea. The fate of her beloved family home, the crumbling Rockwood Castle, is once more...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead - drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort. But could a star open-water swimmer really have drowned? Or is something more sinister going on? Brought together for Lissa's memorial, Georgie, Bron, Lissa's grieving husband and their friends find themselves questioning the circumstances around...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Since the sudden death of her husband, Naomi has steadily rebuilt the life they shared in the village of Tilsham by the sea. Her eldest daughter Martha is sensible and determined - exactly like her father was - and very much in control of where her life is going. If she could just get pregnant with her husband, life would be perfect. Willow, the youngest, was always more sunny and easy-going, yet drifted through life, much to her father's frustration....
16) Staged to death
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Series
A Caprice De Luca Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Kismet, PA, where home stager Caprice De Luca helps her clients shine in a lackluster real estate market--and where someone may only be in the market for murder. . . Caprice De Luca has successfully parlayed her skills as an interior designer into a thriving home staging business. So when her old high school friend Roz Winslow asks her to spruce up her mess of a mansion to perk up a slow buyer's market, Caprice is more than happy to share...
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Series
Poirot volume 12
Language
English
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Description
Poirot was present when Jane bragged of her plan to get rid of her estranged husband. Now he is dead, Poirot can't help feeling he was being taken for a ride. This is another Hercule Poirot crime novel by the acknowledged queen of detective fiction.
18) Before the rains
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband's death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she's determined to make a name for herself. But when Eliza arrives at the palace she meets Jay, the Prince's handsome, brooding younger brother. Brought together by their desire to improve conditions for local people, Jay and Eliza...
19) The bass rock
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband and the strange waters of the local community. Six decades later, the house stands empty. Viv, mourning the death of her father, catalogues Ruth?s belongings and discovers her place in the past - and perhaps a way forward. Each woman?s choices are circumscribed, in ways big and small, by the men...
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English
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Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back every half hour. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realised....
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