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Author
Series
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
BOOK 1: The Cold Cold Ground Two dead. Nothing seems to link them, but Sean Duffy knows the links that seem to be invisible are just waiting to be uncovered. And as a policeman who has solved six murders so far in his career, but not yet brought a single case to court, Duffy is determined that this time, someone will pay. BOOK 2: I Hear the Sirens in the Street Sean Duffy knows that one tiny clue is all it takes to solve a murder, so when a dismembered...
202) A rage in Harlem
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels to feature the hardboiled Harlem detectives 'Coffin' Ed Johnson and 'Grave Digger' Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence,...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Don't miss this escapist summer romance from bestselling author Rebecca Raisin ?? 'Late at night when I wander the streets of Paris, my thoughts turn to her... How do I tell her how I feel? Perhaps, I need to show her...' The pretty little streets of Montmartre are abuzz with a rumour. Apparently a mystery matchmaker, known only as 'Paris Cupid', has somehow helped the city's most famous bachelor find love. But old-fashioned romantic Lilou is staying...
204) The tobacco girls
Author
Series
Tobacco Girls volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The start of a thrilling new series, from bestselling author Lizzie Lane set in Bristol which follows three friends through thick and thin. Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father, a small-time crook, has an ulterior motive for insisting she gets a job at the W. D. H. O. Wills tobacco factory but keeps it to herself. She's befriended by effervescent Phyllis Mason and kind-hearted Bridget Milligan who take pity on her and take...
205) No son of mine
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
They say the apple doesn?t fall far from the tree? When her fifteen-year-old son Milo goes off the rails, Alex Harding is terrified she?s passed on her abusive father?s ?bad? genes. When she then makes the shocking discovery that her estranged son, Samuel, who she gave up for adoption as a baby, has been accused of murder, she becomes even more convinced nature not nurture is the cause. The only way Alex sees to help Milo, is to get to know Samuel...
206) The reservoir tapes
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
He leaves behind all other writers of his generation? Sarah HallMidwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home.But the aftershocks of Becky Shaw?s disappearance have origins long before then, and...
Author
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Never let it be said I'm heartless, just appropriately ruthless. For years, I was Dylan Truman. Your average girl next door with romantic hopes and dreams. Until the incident. From then on, my fate was sealed. I became Lady Justice, a vigilante for hire who lives for the sole purpose of exacting revenge on those who deserve it. Cheater. Bully. Swindler. I don't discriminate. But my next target is the worst one yet. Brent Wilder. CEO billionaire and...
208) Away in a manger
Author
Series
Molly Murphy volume 15
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas time in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now: she and Daniel have a baby son and 12-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen to carollers in the street, they hear a lovely little voice and see a beggar girl, huddled in a doorway, singing Away in a Manger. Bridie is touched by the girl's ragged...
Author
Series
Inspector Alan Grant volume 2
Publisher
SNR Audio Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The second book in the Inspector Alan Grant series. Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning, even though the area is notorious for such incidents. However, it soon becomes clear that darker motives were afoot, and potential suspects in the death of Christine Clay stack up...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Not all books should be opened. In this thrilling fantasy debut, meet the family tasked with guarding a trove of magical but deadly books, and the shadowy organisation that will do anything to get them back. * The instant Sunday Times bestseller * * Good Morning America's June book club pick * 'A bold, new novel from an extraordinary new voice.' Marlon James 'Simply a delight from start to finish.' New York Times 'A spectacularly spellbinding debut...
211) Missing
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Single mum Ellie is shown a missing person post on Facebook. It?s of her three-year-old son, Tyler? But he?s right there, holding her hand. Surely this is some kind of prank - she knows her friend Louise can go too far with her jokes sometimes. And Ellie is used to the other mums gossiping at the school gates? But now the other parents are questioning whether Tyler is really her child. Ellie does everything she can to prove the post is fake, but the...
212) Next
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Language
English
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Description
Is a loved one missing body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Has a human already cross-bred with a monkey? We live in a GENETIC WORLD. Fast, frightening and potentially VERY lucrative. There are designer pets; a genetic cure for drug addiction; a booming market in eggs and sperm. But is there also a talking ape in Borneo? Has a 'master' gene for controlling others been found? Could an innocent man and his family be hunted cross-country because...
213) Don?t let her in
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the happy-ever-after she?d believed they were always going to share. But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone?s deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one - except for Lena?s. Someone clearly wants to implicate her, to ruin her new life and turn everyone against...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Do you know that rabbits eat their own poo? That butterflies taste with their feet? Or that starfish aren't actually fish? This trusty companion guide uncovers all the mysteries of the extraordinary wildlife that surrounds us. From gorgeous foxgloves and strong oaks to wild foxes and slow snails, get ready to find out over 195 different animals, plants and other wildlife. There are so many wonderful living things to meet in this children's spotter's...
Author
Publisher
Wellcome Collection
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Published to accompany BBC Radio 3's A Body of Essays series Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. And yet they all have stories to tell. So who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Working with medical experts, each writer has chosen a different organ: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines...
216) The lola quartet
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Language
English
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Description
How far would you go for someone you love? The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end of their high school careers. On the dream-like night of their last concert, Gavin's girlfriend Anna disappears. Ten years later Gavin sees a photograph of a little girl who looks uncannily like him and who shares Anna's surname, and suddenly he finds himself catapulted back to a secretive past he didn't realize he'd left...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Something old, something new, something stolen?? Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to 'find himself' - alone - and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear John letter in his wake. Now Gina needs a new role in life, not to mention somewhere to live, so she applies for the position of Companion to elderly Dorothy Reed. At eighty-nine,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher...
219) The fortune teller
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
?If you want everyone you love to stay safe, you must walk away?? The fortune teller told me my fate. But I ignored her. I married the man of my dreams. We made a family. A life that?s beautiful, safe and happy. I?ve tried to forget that hazy, sunny afternoon in the park, where we spotted a funfair setting up, and my best friends and I dared each other to go into the fortune teller?s tent? I?ve pushed it to the back of my mind: what she said about...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abras, as they are known, can harness these illegal powers, but for con-artist Amanda Coleman - whose father was a powerful and abusive practitioner - magic is anathema. When her criminal crew decide to hire an Abra to help with their heists, they don?t expect to raise a demon, or to quickly lose control of it. Now Coleman and her crew must travel across Siberia to a remote stone circle in order to kill this murderous creature, who has destroyed everything...
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