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221) The perfect match
Author
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Best friend or boyfriend, who would you believe? Zara has always felt a little ordinary next to her spirited best friend Ivy. Even her dreams seem mundane: a boyfriend, marriage, children... Besides, who would pick her when they could choose Ivy? So when Zara meets Henry and there's an instant spark, she can't believe her luck. A wealthy CEO who wants to settle down? He's perfect... until Ivy insists he's too good to be true. As Henry and Ivy repeatedly...
222) The wounded thorn
Author
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The first in a thrilling new mystery series set around the sacred historical sites of the British Isles Recently retired teacher Hilary decides that the best way to stop herself worrying about her husband, who?s away doing voluntary work in war-torn Gaza, is to distract herself with a holiday. She invites her good friend Veronica, a recent widow, to accompany her on a trip to Glastonbury, to see the ancient sights....
223) Family
Author
Series
Glass Family volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Family - might be the death of you? The Glass family business is crime, and they?re good at what they do. Vengeance took Luke Glass behind bars - but now he's free and he's never going back. Luke wants out of the gangster life - all he has to do is convince his family to let him go. His brother holds the reins of the South London underworld in his brutal hands - nobody tells Danny Glass no and expects to live - not even DCI Oliver Stanford, bent copper...
224) Last place you look
Author
Series
Butler and West volume 1
Publisher
Canelo Crime
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When does a secret become a crime? Jonathan Miller and his wife are invited to his best friend's lavish 40th birthday celebrations. Four days later, Jonathan is dead, apparently asphyxiated during a solitary sex act gone wrong. A tragic case of misadventure. DS Robin Butler is accompanied by his new partner DC Freya West to give a death notice to the widow. He can't understand why West behaves like a nervous rookie. He doesn't know that the victim...
225) The lodger
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh. 'A wonderful book, I can?t rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it?s that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.' Bestselling author Anita Waller. She?s in your home? Leigh Simon can?t say for sure what made her do it. A moment of madness, perhaps, but when the young, loud and gorgeous waitress at her favorite coffee...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
1968, Sicily. Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked by the eerie backdrop of the flattened ghost town. When their car breaks down, Enzo leaves his young wife to go and get help, but when he returns there is no trace of Irene. No body, no sign of a struggle, nothing. 2003. TV showman and true...
228) 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
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...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
This new, rewritten, up-to-date edition includes sources and well over 100 photographs.The Complete jack the Ripper A-Z has an entry for almost every person involved in the case, from suspects and witnesses to policemen and journalists, plus the ordinary people who became caught up in the unfolding drama.Written by three of the world's leading authorities on the case, it takes a completely objective look at theories old and new, describes all the...
231) Heirs and graces
Author
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...
Author
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...
233) The widow
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
?Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots? Jenny O'BrienThe brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh. 'A wonderful book, I can?t rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it?s that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.' Bestselling author Anita Waller. Grieving or guilty? When Allison?s wealthy and charming husband Peter is found dead, she appears...
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...
235) Message deleted
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. THE MESSAGE HAS DISAPPEARED. SO HAS YOUR BEST FRIEND . . . Get ready for the most unputdownable thriller of 2024, from no.1 bestselling author K. L. Slater Saffy is waiting to go into a job interview when she receives a text message from her best friend, Leona: Can?t speak . . . don?t text or call . . . please just come As Saffy struggles to understand what is happening the phone screen changes: This message was deleted....
236) One down
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I?m not being paranoid. It?s all there in the crossword clues?in black and white. There?s no doubt the threat is real. Today, the answers spell out my murder. May Third. Amanda. Silver Birch. Noontime. Assassination. Is Nathan, my estranged crossword-setter husband, really planning to kill me? Or is it someone closer to home? I check the door is bolted, slither to the ground, and count down the seconds to noon. There?s nothing left to do, and no one...
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...
238) 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....
239) One last breath
Author
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A deadly trap. A ticking clock. How long until she has only one last breath? Jessie wakes to darkness, cold, and the rain beating down on her. She reaches out, and her hands meet hard stone. Suddenly she knows where she is. Deep in the woods, far underground, at the bottom of the well where her best friend's lifeless body was found fifteen years ago. After returning to her hometown to investigate a new murder, she now finds herself poised to become...
240) 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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