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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Description
One night in November 2002, PC Billy Tyler is called to a mortuary in Suffolk to guard the body of a notorious child-killer. But in the eerie silence of the hospital, the killer's presence begins to assert itself... A vivid evocation of an extraordinary moment in crime history, Death of a Murderer is a dark and gripping meditation on the fears and temptations that haunt us all.
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs?s death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs?s vision and keep the company moving forward. Steve Jobs's death raised one of the most pressing questions in the tech and business worlds: Could Apple stay great without its iconic leader? Many inside the company were...
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2017
Description
You'd think a ghost grandad would be a great sidekick for a wannabe detective. Unfortunately, if there was a 'being a good ghost' exam, Jay?s grandad would fail spectacularly -- he hates walking through walls, he can't touch anything and he's rubbish at haunting. Since his dad literally did a vanishing act (he's a magician), Jay Patel has turned detective, and now, with the help of his granddad, he?s on the case of a dead body that vanished from the...
4) And finally
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand lives for themselves that will bring them out of the long shadow cast by their father's death and their overbearing mother's bullying. Maxine is just shy of her 40th birthday when her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to South...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Ghostly footsteps in the night, the splash of oars on the river, and a rip in the fabric of time ? In 1998 Kate O'Hara rents an old cottage on the banks of a river in Tasmania. She wants peace and quiet, to come to terms with her husband's death and the end of her unhappy marriage. But her cottage is haunted by the ghost of Devlin, a boatman from convict days. Captivated by Devlin's story, and his mysterious disappearance, Kate falls deeper under...
7) Yellow Room
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Secrets are like scars... Haunted by a tragic childhood accident, Chala?s whole life has been moulded by guilt and secrets. After the death of the stepfather she adored, Chala is thrown into turmoil once again. Volunteering in Kenya seems to offer an escape, and a way of re-evaluating her adult relationships, although violence and hardship simmer alongside its richness and beauty. The secrets of the Yellow Room are still with her and she can?t run...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont volume 6
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids-the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide-and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont. But his hunt for answers and justice is leading to more death, and to dark...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Still single at 35, she spends every hour of her days and nights in an elegant Manhattan apartment, quietly caring for her invalid mother. Then her mother dies, and Aurora's world spins on its axis. Reality shatters into startlingly realistic nightmares, and the shards of troubling memories slice into her sleep. Everything Aurora has believed about herself and her world fades into murky dreams that will not let her rest. Something, someone is pursuing...
10) The dying game
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
?Oh, it?s really quite simple. I want you to play dead.? On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the other candidates react...
11) Trap door
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
100 years ago, young women were killed in this workplace. Is history about to repeat itself? Rachel, a young woman in serious debt, needs to find a job fast before she?s made homeless. She gets a lucky break when she is offered a great position in a successful company. Then she discovers that the building was once a Victorian sweatshop with a tragic history. Is this why Rachel feels something increasingly sinister? Soon her new job becomes a living...
Author
Series
The Max Freeman Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The Edgar Award-winning debut of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: A tormented ex-cop?s mission to solve a grisly murder and earn redemption for his dark past After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades.�Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night...
13) A necessary evil
Author
Series
A Maggie O'Dell Novel volume 5
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When a monsignor is found knifed to death in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in to profile the ritualistic murder of a priest, the latest in a series of killings.Maggie soon discovers a disturbing Internet game that's popular among victims of abuse by Catholic priests. With this first real lead in the investigation, she wonders if the group has turned cyberspace justice into reality. Then Maggie gets a second...
14) The hidden child
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family's past and finally uncover the reasons why. Her enquiries lead her to the home of a retired history teacher. He was among her mother's circle of friends during the Second World War but her questions are met with bizarre and evasive answers. Two days later he meets a violent death....
Author
Series
The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Description
The world?s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot - legendary star of Agatha Christie?s Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice - puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.CAN HERCULE POIROT SOLVE A BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERY IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS? It?s 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Description
THE CONSTANT PRINCESS Tells the story of Henry VIII?s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess raised to be Queen of England and first brought to England to marry Henry?s older brother, Prince Arthur. But when her new husband dies, she must fight for her birthright - and in marrying the now heir to the throne, she must tell the greatest lie? and hold to it. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Made famous by the film adaptation, tells the story of the...
17) The fifth to die
Author
Series
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2018
Description
?J.D. Barker is a one-of-a-kind writer and that?s a rare and special thing. Stephen King comes to mind and Lee Child, John Sanford. All one-of-a-kinds. Don?t miss anything J.D. writes.? James PattersonMurder. It?s a family affair.In the midst of one of the worst winters Chicago has seen in years, the body of missing teenager Ella Reynolds is discovered under the surface of a frozen lake.She?s been missing for three weeks? the lake froze over three...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Description
New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred and ten stories below him, the lives of eight strangers spin towards each other... Corrigan, a radical, passionate Irish monk working in the Bronx with a clutch of prostitutes; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son...
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