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141) A death in diamonds
Author
Series
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates volume 4
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
THE ROYALLY BRILLIANT FOURTH BOOK IN THE HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN INVESTIGATES MYSTERY SERIES - NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER IN HARDBACK, EBOOK AND AUDIOBOOK! 1957 - Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe. As she travels the world to try and build bridges, the Queen is advised by the 'men in moustaches', as Philip calls them - her...
142) Five nights
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A powerful family. A luxury cruise. A killer on board? You're invited to join the infamous Scarmado family on a five night voyage aboard their glamorous new ship. It's a chance to see your best friend, Belle, newly married to Mattia Scarmado. You haven't seen her in years. FIVE On the first night, you'll be wrapped up in the glamour of the ship. FOUR On the second night, you'll wonder who is sending you threatening notes. THREE On the third night,...
Author
Series
The Dark Star Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology,...
144) The chocolate tin
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Frobisher, a modern-thinking woman with hopes of a career in England's famous chocolate-making town of York, has received several proposals of marriage, although none of them promises that elusive extra - love. Matthew Britten-Jones is a man of charm and strong social standing. He impresses Alex and her parents with his wit and intelligence, but would an amicable union be enough for a fulfilling life together? At the end of the war, Captain...
145) 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...
Author
Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her hand and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces - a wet nurse, a piano teacher, a gardener, a best friend and a distant mother - but soon finds them slipping mysteriously from her life. In the company of these girls, we are compelled to tread the uncertain and spiky terrain of memory, where words are dropped like clues...
147) 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...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can't speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she has been accused of the brutal murder of her daughter-in-law. Eva Georgiou, Greek interpreter for the Met, knows how it feels to be voiceless as an immigrant woman. While she works as Zina's translator, her obsession with...
149) 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....
150) A royal pain
Author
Series
Royal Spyness volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry. But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad and her neighbor pretend to be the...
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...
152) Jericho's dead
Author
Series
Killing Jericho volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Detective Scott Jericho returns in Jericho's Dead, the second gripping crime thriller by William Hussey - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook. Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him. That is until a vicious serial killer targets someone close to him. Now Jericho is back, his thirst for justice remorseless. But time is running out. Fortune tellers...
153) The red garden
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions. From the town's founder,...
154) A trace of hares
Author
Series
Nell Ward volume 5
Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A family wedding. An unsolved murder. Til death us do part? Dr Nell Ward is in the lush, emerald-green hills of Ireland to attend the wedding of two dear friends at a picture-perfect farmhouse. But family tensions are running high in the days before the happy couple tie the knot. And when Nell hears a fox kill a hare in the early morning, the bad omen sends shivers down her spine. Almost like it is a sign of something to come... Then one of the locals...
155) The Windsor knot
Author
Series
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
For fans of The Crown and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth II will enjoy a cup of tea, carry out all her royal duties . . . and solve a murder. The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck. When the police begin to suspect...
156) The inner darkness
Author
Series
Cold Case Quartet volume 3
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar J�rn Lier Horst. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING After four years behind bars, notorious serial killer Tom Kerr is ready to talk. And Chief Inspector William Wisting is waiting to listen. Kerr has finally agreed to lead the police to his final victim's grave. But the expedition goes horribly wrong after his escape deep into the Norwegian forest. Wisting must launch...
157) The house guest
Author
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...
158) The night warriors
Author
Series
Night Warriors volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The original and terrifying start to a supernatural horror series from the master of horror himself, Graham Masterton. IT CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE... EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS. Henry was the first to reach the girl, found sleeping on the beach, with his friends Gil and Susan. When they learn what has happened to her, they are thrown into a mystery that nightmares are made of. The young girl has been forced to host a hideous malevolence that insinuates itself...
159) Subtle bodies
Author
Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ned and Nina are trying to conceive, so when Ned jets off with no notice to the funeral of Douglas, a mysterious friend from his student days, Nina follows him so they can have sex on time. Douglas was the ringleader of a fellowship of chums at NYU and Nina is baffled by the extraordinary hold the group - and Douglas in particular - have on Ned. The novel explores the reconfiguring and reappraisal of the clique following Douglas's tragic death. Subtle...
160) No place to die
Author
Series
DI Mike Lockyer volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
DS Jane Bennett takes charge of South London's Lewisham murder squad following the temporary suspension of her boss, DI Mike Lockyer. His involvement with a female witness resulted in her murder. Mike returns to work, but he's a shadow of the detective he was a few months before. Bennett gets a desperate call from an old friend to say that her husband, retired colleague Mark Leech, has gone missing. Blood spatters found in the home suggest she doesn't...
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