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Series
Agatha Raisin volume 20
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James' engagement party. To distract her still further she decides upon a holiday and flies to Istanbul, where unfortunately she bumps into James and his fianc�e not once but twice - convincing him she is stalking them. So...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was a hairdresser to dye for ... The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head - and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair purple - she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham hairdresser. And as well as sorting out her hair it soon becomes clear the charming man also has designs on her heart - but their budding romance is cut short when Mr John is fatally poisoned in his salon. Once again Agatha...
183) The healers
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Series
Inspector Ramsay volume 5
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled . . . News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself and had lived alone since his mother?s death. A seemingly unconnected women...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The Daughter is a gripping, powerful story of a mother's courage and devotion, by the number one bestselling author of The Girlfriend. Getting pregnant as a teenager was never part of Kate's plan, but when it happens she's determined to do right by her daughter, showing her the love she never had as a child. Life as a single mother is hard, sometimes impossible, but it only brings Kate and Becky closer together. By the time Becky is making her own...
185) The accident
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
One wrong choice... Every time Kate Duggan looks in a mirror she's reminded of the night her life changed forever. Kate managed to walk away from the car accident that ruined the lives of her siblings, but questions still remain about what really happened on that dark stretch of road.... Since then Kate?s life has been spiralling. On the surface her fianc� Rob is supportive, but the reality is he?s controlling and manipulative and Kate knows she...
186) The family home
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The BRAND-NEW psychological thriller from bestselling author L H Stacey. Nothing is as perfect as it seems? Hattie Gilby has not been back to her family home since the devastating events that took place there years ago. Events that changed Hattie and which continue to haunt her today. But one phone call changes everything. Now Hattie is going back to her family home to face her brothers, Adam and Luke and to hear the last words of her dying mother....
187) The perfect parents
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Pre order the gripping new psych thriller from bestselling author J.A. Baker Jackson and Lydia Hemsworth are pillars of the community, feted for having the perfect marriage and three wonderful children - Florence, Jessica and Ezra. But appearances can be deceptive. Because behind closed doors Jackson Hemsworth rules his family with cruelty and control. His marriage is a sham; his children for years have cowed in fear. Until the day that Jackson and...
188) The affair
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Her heart is thumping now, only just distinguishable from the roar of the water and the wind. This is not safe. She is not safe? She realises then, only one of them is coming back out alive. She?s the person I want to be. Sorcha Hannon, survivor of a devastating affair. She?s found the healing and hope I desperately need to find for myself. And now that Sorcha and I are friends, I am no longer alone. Instead of days hiding away from the world, I have...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Gina McKee stars in this chilling apocalyptic radio drama by award-winning writer Val McDermid. It?s the Summer Solstice weekend, and 150,000 people have descended on a farm in the North East of England for an open-air music festival. Reporting on the event is journalist Zoe Meadows, who files her copy from a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisa. When some of Sam?s customers get sick, it looks like food poisoning, and it?s exacerbated by the mud,...
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Series
Ever After Street volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Will a kiss at midnight change her life forever? Sadie Winters has spent her whole life doing as she?s told. But when her overbearing aunt forbids her from going to the farewell ball at the beloved local castle, Sadie has had enough! One magical makeover, one midnight curfew, and wearing a dress of her own creation, Sadie is unrecognizable as Ever After Street's shy seamstress. Sadie might dream of meeting a handsome prince but the only person to...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy...
192) A murder of crows
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Series
Nell Ward volume 1
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dr Nell Ward is an ecologist, not a detective. But when she's the prime suspect in a murder, only her unique set of skills could help to clear her name... In the sleepy village of Cookingdean, Dr Nell Ward is busy working in the grounds of a local manor house. Whilst inspecting an old tunnel, she did not expect to overhear a murder. As the only person with any clues as to what happened, Nell soon finds herself in the middle of the investigation. Desperate...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On 20 July l944 Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped death when an assassin's bomb failed to kill him in his Eastern command, the Wolf's Lair. The conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and their executions were filmed. Among them was Axel von Gottberg. Sixty years after his death, von Gottberg's close friend and now a legendary Oxford professor, Elya Mendel, leaves a legacy of papers and letters to a former student, Conrad Senior. Senior...
194) Central park west
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Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'The plot goes like a train . . . vivid and compelling' Ian Rankin One chance to crack the case. A million ways to lose. Federal prosecutor Nora Carleton has spent years building a case against a powerful New York mobster. She finally has a star witness whose testimony will lock the defendant away for good. But the courtroom is an unpredictable place. While the killing of a disgraced former governor appears unconnected to the trial, the fallout from...
195) Find her alive
Author
Series
DS Jenna Morgan volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A high adrenaline new psychological crime series, introducing Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan. Perfect for fans of Cara Hunter. 'Compulsive, addictive and gripping - a truly five star read! Geraldine Hogan Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is first on the scene to investigate. As the search intensifies, Jenna soon discovers her sister Fliss?s severely injured Dalmatian, Domino and the...
196) Heirs and graces
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Series
Royal Spyness volume 7
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
As 35th in line for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch may not be the most sophisticated young woman, but she knows her table manners. It's forks on the left, knives on the right - not in His Majesty's back? ?Here I am thinking the education I received at my posh Swiss finishing school would never come in handy. And while it hasn't landed me a job, or a husband, it has convinced Her Majesty the Queen and the Dowager Duchess to enlist my help. I have...
197) The widower's lie
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Preorder the gripping psychological thriller from bestseller J. A. Baker How well can you really know anyone? Ever since Sophia Saunders was murdered, her husband, Peter, and daughter, Lauren, have been trying to rebuild their lives. Desperate to fill the emotional void, Peter becomes involved with a woman from his grief support group - the enigmatic Alice. But as his relationship with Alice progresses, Lauren becomes unsettled. Why can?t she find...
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Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Have you ever found something mysterious? Something you had no idea what it was but you had this feeling it was important, that it held a secret? Mary Anning was a fossil hunter, scouring the cliffs and seashores of Lyme Regis for strange rocks and shells. Monstrous marine reptiles and dinosaurs had once reigned the land and seas here millions of years ago, disappearing only to leave mysterious traces for humans to puzzle over. Mary's fossils paved...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
How well do you really know your husband? Two years ago, my whole world was ripped apart when my husband and best friend were killed in a car accident in Norfolk. Since then, I've struggled to come to terms with my overwhelming grief and to understand why they were together in Charlie?s car that fateful day. I know I can?t carry on with my reclusive lifestyle, hiding away, alone in this big house. I have to find a way to start living again. Following...
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Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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The perfect gift for fans of Agatha Christie and classic crime this Christmas. THIS CHRISTMAS IS TO DIE FOR . . . LET THE GAME BEGIN Lily Armitage never intended to return to Endgame House - the grand family home where her mother died twenty-one Christmases ago. Until she receives a letter from her aunt, asking her to return to take part in an annual tradition: the Christmas Game. The challenge? Solve twelve clues, to find twelve keys. The prize?...
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