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Pub. Date
2022
Description
The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen?s - a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ?Jazz? Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees...
Author
Series
Roy Grace volume 20
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
Description
'This is the one I?ve been waiting for. And it?s a masterpiece of suspense. I quite literally couldn?t put it down - even when I was supposed to be doing other things . . .' - Barbara Erskine, author of The Dream Weavers Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of the Grace series returns with a thrilling new novel: a Roy Grace story told from a new perspective. Some will know how it begins . . . My name is Sandy. My husband...
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
An imposing, isolated hotel - high up in the Swiss Alps - is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement she has no choice but to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned...
4) The retreat
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation - but the island itself, known locally as Reaper?s Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it?s rumoured to be cursed. Then a young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn?t a guest - she wasn?t meant to be on the island at all. The...
Author
Series
Superintendent Battle volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
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Description
Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton?s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so-until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood?s Dr. Humbleby.?.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. 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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. A BEST DEBUT OF 2024 BY BBC, RED, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Yorkshire, 1979 Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South. Because of the murders. Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if...