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Merrily Watkins volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Diocesan Exorcist - a job viewed by the Church of England with such extreme suspicion that they changed the name. It's Deliverance Consultant now. Still, it seems no job for a woman. But when the Bishop offers it to Merrily Watkins - parish priest and single mum - she's in no position to refuse. It starts badly for Merrily and gets no easier. As an early winter slices through the old city of Hereford, a body is found in the River Wye, an ancient church...
42) The mister
Author
Series
Mister and Missus volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections and money, he?s never had to work and he?s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family?s noble title, wealth and estates and all the responsibility that entails. It?s a role he?s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face. But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic...
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Series
Daisy Dalrymple volume 15
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1924, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher travels to a school friend's house to witness the estate's famous Guy Fawkes celebration. But she gets more than the quiet weekend at the quaint family manse that she was originally hoping for. The home is the site of some severe family tension. The Viscount and head of the family is a strict and unyielding sort, insisting that everyone-especially his children-meet his own unreasonable expectations....
44) Losing Nicola
Author
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain; that is until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. But on Alice?s 12th birthday, Nicola disappears, only to be found days later, battered, bruised and dead. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will the truth be too much to handle when she starts to suspect...
45) The captive
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Hannah knows the cage intimately. Small, the size of a shopping centre parking space. A bed, a basin, a table and chair. A hatch and metal drawer through which to exchange food and other items. Then there's him. Always there on the edges of her vision, no matter how hard she tries to block him out. Every day, the same thoughts run through Hannah's mind: What if he speaks to me? What if he hurts me? What if he gets out?.
46) The new girl
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna?s perfect life apart. A baby scan photo. Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth. Who sent it? And why? Anna?s thoughts fall on Grace - the keen young woman Jon hired at their printing business. Something about Grace isn?t quite right. She...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Run for your life... This year's London Marathon is my last chance to win the final place on the Olympic team. The months of rehabilitation after my injury will feel worth it to cross that line. But I wasn't expecting the man who's been making my life a living hell to be there. Last I knew, my stalker was behind bars, but he says he's going to be at the race watching. I have 26 miles to figure out whether it's him, and what he wants, or I could lose...
48) The perfect home
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Until the girl went missing, we thought it was the perfect place to live? When we move into the exclusive Westford Park housing estate, we feel safe at last. More like a country club, it has everything we might need - beautiful houses with big gardens, a pool, a boating lake, extensive grounds. It?s also got 24/7 security. Our new neighbours are lovely too. We start to make friendships that feel like they could last a lifetime. It feels like nothing...
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Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Lilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that seems to dog her wherever she goes, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and friends along the way. But then she meets Eli, and he's not ready to let her go, not without a fight. Gorgeously written, charged with tension and...
50) The wrong woman
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Julia Sutherland isn?t too sure about her new colleague. Ellis Kirkbride is friendly, charismatic and handsome, but there?s just something about him - a bit too slick, a bit too confident, and he stands a bit too close. Normally she'd share her concerns with her husband Rob, but he?s been distant lately and Julia has a secret he mustn?t find out. Ellis Kirkbride thought he had found the right woman. She was everything he could want but she didn't...
Author
Series
Miss Clara Vale Mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
'This time her intrepid heroine is on the trail of a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a mummy... a beautifully rendered period of Egypt... a ripping adventure in the company of a no nonsense heroine' Vaseem Khan A night at the museum, a dead body and a trail to Cairo. Sounds like a case for Miss Clara Vale! 1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition...
Author
Series
Pemberley Presents volume 4
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Pemberley Presents... Lizzy Darcy?s spring house party is becoming a Pemberley tradition and this year Lizzy will have the pleasure of all her sisters? company. She is apprehensive at the thought of her mother, Mrs Bennet and the formidable Lady Catherine De Burgh being at Pemberley at the same time especially, as there is to be an exciting announcement from Lizzie?s sister Kitty. Richard Turner, recently promoted to the rank of major, plans to propose...
53) Seeds of murder
Author
Series
Gardener Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Roses are red, Violets are blue, All the evidence is pointing to you... Steph Williams has landed her dream gardening job working for the wealthy, gated community of Beaulieu Heights. With her beloved dog Mouse for company, she's quite content to be left alone to tackle the weeds and tend the flowers. There might be one resident who keeps a locked shed to which Steph is forbidden access, and secret feuds she happens to overhear, but it's none of her...
Author
Publisher
Wellcome Collection
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Happiness is one of life's greatest mysteries. But what even is happiness? Why does it mean so many different things to different people? And how can we actually be happier? Drawing on decades of experience in crime writing, self-help and intensely curious observation of other people, Sophie Hannah sets out to solve the mystery. She lines up her cast of suspects and expert witnesses from ancient philosophers to modern self-help gurus, scientists to...
55) Hydra
Author
Series
Six Stories volume 2
Publisher
ORENDA BOOKS
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
One cold November night in 2014, in a small town in the north west of England, 26-year-old Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father, and younger sister to death with a hammer, in an unprovoked attack known as the 'Macleod Massacre'. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose 'Six Stories' podcasts have become an Internet sensation.
Author
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836.The city of dreaming spires.It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world.And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift. Until it became a prison?But can a student stand...
57) Arkspire
Author
Series
Arkspire volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Glorious, powerful, magic; a city of twists, turns and tricksters; extraordinary secrets which only one girl can uncover . . . welcome to the world of Arkspire. Arkspire is a city obsessed by magic. The five Arcanists - a group of all-powerful magicians - have protected the great city for as long as anyone can remember. Within the hustle and bustle of these cobbled streets lives Juniper Bell, a thief who'd do anything for her family - even her unbelievably...
58) The singer's gun
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Language
English
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After shaking off an increasingly dangerous venture with his cousin, Anton Waker has spent years constructing an honest life for himself. But then a routine security check brings his past crashing back towards him. His marriage and career in ruins, Anton finds himself in Italy with one last job from his cousin. But there is someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . . The Singer's Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail...
Author
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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Series
Publisher
ABC/Audible Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Arthur Conan Doyle's complete works - four novels and five collections of short stories - has been brought to life by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, in this The Definitive Collection. In addition, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful, intimate and deeply personal...
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