Steven Pacey
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Simon Serrailler volume 6
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A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed. The remains are identified as those of missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen 16 years ago.
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Maizie and her husband, Sam, run the Paris Hotel in Coverack, Cornwall, but when World War II starts Sam joins up and leaves Maizie to run the hotel. Struggling to keep the hotel going, Maizie is further troubled when she takes on Rosemary and Bobby, two evacuees from Plymouth but after a difficult start the children settle in and Maizie, who wants a family, enjoys their company. Her happiness is further enhanced with the arrival of the attractive...
11) Siberian red
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Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
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September 1939. Even as fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims to have information about the whereabouts of the man entrusted by the Tsar with hiding his gold. As the news of the informant reaches Stalin, however, the man is knifed to death.
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Simon Serrailler volume 10
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On the face of it DC Simon Serrailler has had time to recuperate after the violent incident that cost him his arm - and nearly his life. He is back in harness at Lafferton CID but is spending his spare time high up in the cathedral roof, making drawings of the medieval angels which are being restored. Lafferton is going through a quiet patch, so far as crime is concerned, until one rainy night two local men open their front door to a couple seeking...
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Simon Serrailler volume 11
Pub. Date
2021
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DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they?re given a fine or are suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give...
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Chivers Audio
Pub. Date
2003
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10 10 hr., 36 min.
Description
An Englishman and Frenchman who were great rivals in the 1920s are teamed up in the Special Operations Executive to work behind enemy lines in France during World War Two. This tale of heroism and self-sacrifice is based upon a true story.
17) The green man
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Chivers Audio
Pub. Date
2001
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6 7hrs., 26 mins
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Maurice Allington is a worldly publican, but haunted. His pub is inhabited by the spirit of Dr Thomas Underhill, the 17th century scholar rumoured to have killed his wife. There are also skeletons in the cupboard of Allington's own affairs.
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Chivers Audio
Pub. Date
2002
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12 15 hrs., 43 mins.
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Set in Shanghai during the 1920s, 'The Master of Rain' is a spooky tale of murder and the experiences of Richard Field, an officer with the local police force. Field soon realises that in Shanghai everything has a price with human life coming cheap.
19) The innocent
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Chivers Audio
Pub. Date
2010
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8 7 hr., 57 min.
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McEwan acknowledges his debt to the historian David Martin for the true story of the Berlin Tunnel or Operation Gold. To this truth, McEwan has wedded a fiction of tragedy and a love story of a sort.
20) Death on the ice
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Chivers Audio
Pub. Date
2010
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14 17 hr., 32 min.
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The story of one of the last great epic journeys of exploration made before World War I: Robert Falcon Scott's fateful journey to the South Pole.