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Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
'Features a clever and deadly heroine who is just as much a beauty as a beast. Fans of Alessandra are sure to fall just as hard for Chrysantha' Kathryn Purdie, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bone Crier's Moon and The Forest Grimm - - Praise for The Shadows Between Us - - 'A viciously satisfying romance featuring two well-matched opponents' Booklist 'Dark, mesmerizing, and completely addictive. With a gripping mystery and layered characters,...
102) To dream of the dead
Author
Series
Merrily Watkins volume 10
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village. Fundamentalist Christians have hated him for years. Now he's...
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Series
Wonder Team volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A time-twisting adventure from Leah Williamson, captain of the Euros-winning women?s England team, written with debut author Jordan Glover. When Leah unearths a mysterious time capsule in her local park with her two best friends Mimi and George, she opens up a whole new world of adventure. Transported a hundred years back in time, she finds a women's football team in crisis. Can she and her friends lead them back to victory? The odds are against them,...
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Series
Outlaws Scarlett and Browne volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced fantasy adventure set in a broken, future England, following the further exploits of the outlaws Scarlett and Browne. Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne have outwitted their pursuers and escaped into the wilderness once more, and it?s not long before they become famous for their audacious heists across the Seven Kingdoms. Yet neither is fully able to escape the shackles of the past - as they discover when a dangerous job turns sour. Soon...
105) Murder takes root
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Series
Gardener Mystery volume 2
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Steph Williams is excited to get her hands stuck into her latest gardening project. This time, she's been commissioned by Lady Clara of Ashford Manor to restore the stately gardens to their former glory. But the estate is suddenly thrown into chaos when a dead body is discovered in one of the rooms. The police rule it as suicide, though Steph's convinced they're barking up the wrong tree. For she knows the deceased better than they do and it could...
106) The Beach house
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Pre-order the brand new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Bridesmaid and The Daughter in Law. It should have been the perfect weekend? Work colleagues Nicole, Margo, Paisley and Audrey all appear to be looking forward to a weekend away at Nicole?s luxurious beach house on the Dorset coast. It should be a chance for the women to kick back, relax and regroup after a stressful moment at work. But this is no normal girls? getaway....
107) The house guest
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A gripping psychological thriller from bestselling author, L. H. Stacey! A woman on the run? Madeleine Frost knows she has to get away from her partner Liam. His behaviour has become increasingly controlling and Maddie fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy. Desperation leads Maddie to the hotel owned by her estranged father - the extraordinarily beautiful Wrea Head Hall. The reunion is tense, but Maddie?s father agrees to her staying...
108) The ghost bride
Author
Publisher
Hot Key Books Unlocked
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The only problem is, he's dead. After a fateful visit to the Lim mansion, Li Lan finds herself haunted not only by her ghostly would-be suitor, but also her desire for the Lims' handsome new heir. At night she is drawn into the Chinese afterlife - a world of ghost cities, paper funeral offerings, monstrous bureaucracy and vengeful spirits. Enlisting the help of mysterious Er Lang (a dragon turned clerk) Li Lan must uncover the secrets of the ghost...
109) The stepson
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The night my mum disappeared, after a panicked 3am phonecall, I knew something was wrong. The police tried to reassure me. There had to be a logical explanation they said - perhaps she?s taking a break after the tragic death of my father. But I know my mum. Or do I? She would never leave without telling me. Or would she? The harder I look, the more I discover deep, dark family secrets I was not privy to. Worrying secrets I was never meant to know....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, in a beautiful city famous for chocolate and protected by dragons, there was a girl so fearless that she dared to try to tell the greatest story of all: the truth. Silke has always been good at spinning the truth and storytelling. So good that since arriving as a penniless orphan, she has found her way up to working for the most splendid chocolate makers in the city (oh, and becoming best friends with a dragon). Now her gift for...
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Series
Daisy Dalrymple volume 22
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"-brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband...
112) The trail
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sometimes it's best to let the past stay buried... Thirty years ago, Jess's mother, Nora, disappeared while on a charity hike in the US. The devastating loss has afflicted Jess well into her adult life and even inspired her decision to become an investigative journalist. So when Jess receives an anonymous tip telling her that remains have been recovered in the spot her mother disappeared, she wastes no time in jumping on a plane. They say the Appalachian...
113) Birds of a feather
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Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Winspear?s marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature?s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London ?between the wars.? It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what...
114) A breach of security
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Series
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When a bunch of neo-fascist thugs named The Bulldogs attack a Gay pride march in the sleepy country town of Lafferton, detective Simon Serrailler moves quickly to find the assailants. He?s already got his hands full making security arrangements for a memorial service to honour soldiers returning from Afghanistan. When anonymous threats come in, Serrailler wonders if the Bulldogs are behind these too - and worries that they know the Prince of Wales...
115) Identical
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Brand New from Saskia Sarginson ?Please, I need your help. You?re the only person I can turn to. The only person who can pretend to be me?? When Alice gets a desperate message from her estranged identical twin sister Cecily, she can?t help herself. She has to say yes. Pushing down the memories of the terrible childhood that ultimately tore them apart, she arrives at her sister?s house. Cecily has left instructions: how to work the oven, what to cook...
116) 23 � lies
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Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The thrilling new novella in the globally bestselling series plus two gripping new stories from the master of suspense. 23 � Lies When SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is called to investigate a crime scene, nothing can prepare her for what she finds: her estranged father gunned down execution style. The case will soon reveal to Lindsay a series life-altering truths . . . Fallen Ranger A series of armed robberies are linked to a gang of motorcycle bandits....
117) Avon Street
Author
Publisher
The Mystery Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Robbed of everything he once had, and trapped in a merciless vendetta, James must now take on Nathaniel Caine and his gang to survive. Alone, he cannot hope to win, but to find allies he needs to learn to trust in a world of betrayal. Each of those who promise help has their own secrets, hidden in silences, half-truths and lies. And asked if it is fate, destiny, or simply chance that brings them together, each of them would have a different answer....
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Series
Nell Ward volume 4
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A killer is hiding in plain sight, like a snake in the long grass... When Dr Nell Ward stumbles across a woman's body amongst the purple heather on Furze Heath, she was on the lookout for nests of poisonous adders. But something is lurking out here far more dangerous than vipers. A cold-blooded killer is on the loose and this is not his first victim. As DI James Clark begins to investigate, a pattern emerges pointing towards this being the work of...
119) The collectors
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Series
Camel Club volume 2
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The mystery deepens in the gripping second novel in David Baldacci's Camel Club series, The Collectors. Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century - two short cons to fund a long con, then a life of unashamed luxury, incognito in a foreign land. Jonathan DeHaven, the shy head of the Rare Books Division at the Library of Congress, is planning nothing more than an uneventful day amongst his cherished...
120) A fox in the fold
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Owen Archer suspects an old adversary is on his tail as he seeks to solve the mystery surrounding a dead body found on the road to York. October, 1376. Owen Archer is summoned by sheriff Sir Ralph Hastings regarding a stripped and bloodied body discovered on the road north to York. Could it be connected to an attack on a carter and his labourers who were transporting stone destined for St Clement's Priory? The carter fled, but his men stayed to fight...
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