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Pub. Date
2022
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Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the...
2) Blunt force
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Tennison volume 6
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2020
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Things can't get much worse for detective Jane Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London's affluent Knightsbridge. With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Tennison can feel her career slowly flatlining. That is until the discovery of the most brutal murder Jane has ever seen: Charlie Foxley has been found viciously...
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Leo Stanhope volume 1
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Raven Books
Pub. Date
2018
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Leo Stanhope. Avid chess player; assistant to a London coroner; in love with Maria; and hiding a very big secret. For Leo was born Charlotte, the daughter of a respectable reverend. But knowing he was meant to be a man - despite the evidence of his body - and unable to cope with living a lie any longer, he fled his family home at just fifteen and has been living as Leo: his secret known to only a few trusted people. But then Maria is found dead and...
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2021
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This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies. You think you know what's inside the last house on Needless Street. You think you've read this story before. In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, something lies buried. But it's not what...
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Polygon
Pub. Date
2022
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When you look at a painting, what do you really see? When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her good friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate the infamous Edinburgh Skating Club, little do they both realise how her new identity will shape their futures. Together they navigate their way through the sights, sounds and faces of Enlightenment Edinburgh, from Old Town to New Town and from...
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The privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast is the perfect site for murder. A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner?s announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would mean the end of the Observatory...and of all that, for some of them, made life worth living. A fire in Charlie Todd's cottage added to their distress. And when, next morning, after a fierce storm,...
7) The Maid
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A Molly the Maid Mystery volume 1
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A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been...
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Poirot volume 1
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Includes an introduction by Christie archivist John Curran, and the original unpublished courtroom chapter as an alternate ending to the novel. ?Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ?It is so small - it does not matter? ? Everything matters. ? After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles...
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George and Molly Palmer-Jones volume 3
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Bello
Pub. Date
2014
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The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a shockingly unexpected death. Somehow, in the dark of the night, Jim?s young sister, Mary, slipped off Ellie?s Head to the rocks below. A terrible end to a boisterously cheerful evening. But did Mary...
11) Manhattan mayhem
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Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2015
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In Lee Child?s ?The Picture of the Lonely Diner,? legendary drifter Jack Reacher interrupts a curious stand-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery Deaver?s ?The Baker of Bleecker Street,? an Italian immigrant becomes ensnared in WWII espionage. And in ?The Five-Dollar Dress,? Mary Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from T. Jefferson Parker, S....
12) The man between
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2018
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Chris Carradine is the successful author of several bestselling novels. When he is approached by MI6 and asked to carry out a simple task on behalf of his country while attending a literary festival in Morocco, he jumps at the chance.But all is not as it seems. Carradine soon finds himself on the trail of Laura Bartok, a leading figure in Resurrection, a violent revolutionary movement targeting prominent right-wing political figures around the world.Caught...
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A Midsomer Murders Mystery volume 1
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The village of Badger's Drift is the essence of tranquillity. But when resident and well-loved spinster Miss Simpson takes a stroll in the nearby woods, she stumbles across something she was never meant to see, and there's only one way to keep her quiet. Miss Simpson's death is not suspicious, say the villagers. But Miss Lucy Bellringer refuses to rest: her friend has been murdered. She is sure of it. She calls on Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby...
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Josephine Tey volume 9
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2020
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December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael's Mount - and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary - interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins. Pivoting on a real moment in history, the ninth novel in the 'Josephine...
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Viper
Pub. Date
2021
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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect - his sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As her increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her...
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Agnes Sharp volume 1
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Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2023
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One murder to solve and another to cover up. It'll be tricky, but the OAP residents of Sunset Hall are going to give it their best shot. Sunset Hall is a house share for the old and unruly, led by Agnes Sharp. It's an eventful day when this group of idiosyncratic seniors gets a visit from the police to inform them of some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face, but they are secretly relieved the body in question...
17) If they knew
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Avon
Pub. Date
2018
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I know who you are. I?ve come to pay you back. Barbara Kipling is 64 and nobody in her family knows about her past, least of all her daughter Helen. But when she is diagnosed with cancer, her secrets begin to unravel and Helen begins to discover what really happened all those years ago? Desperate to uncover her mother?s past she?ll stop at nothing to find the truth, but the consequences might put her own children in jeopardy? How far will a mother...
18) The rebel
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Avon
Pub. Date
2018
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Sometimes you have to take the law into your own hands?DI Laura Jefferson will do whatever it takes to bring down London?s most notorious crime boss. When her team receive a deadly threat - stop their investigation or the police and their families will be targeted - but they aren?t willing to back down?Then the killings begin.A new body is turns up every day, and with no leads, Laura knows she has to take action. Her family is innocent and she?ll...
19) All fall down
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Detective Inspector Helen Grace volume 9
Pub. Date
2020
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'You have one hour to live.' Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth. That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in one hour. But why? The job of finding out falls to DI Helen Grace: a woman with a track record in hunting killers. However, this is one case where the killer seems to always be one step ahead of the police and the victims....
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Graffeg Limited
Pub. Date
2015
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Written by Murder Squad and their six accomplices, these page-turning stories uncover a world of intrigue, suspense, and fear. With contributions from celebrated crime writers including Ann Cleeves and Martin Edwards, each tale is inspired by the atmospheric and evocative Pembrokeshire collection of photographer David Wilson.
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