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Author
Publisher
Killer Reads
Pub. Date
2016
Description
You can?t escape the past? Juliet and Chrissy were best friends until one fateful summer forced them apart. Now, nearly twenty years later, Juliet wants to be back in Chrissy?s life.But Chrissy doesn?t want Juliet anywhere near her, or her teenage daughter Eloise. After all, Juliet is the only person who knows what happened that night - and her return threatens to destroy the life that Chrissy has so carefully built. Because when the past is reawakened,...
62) The last night
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In a quiet coastal village, Irina spends her days restoring furniture, passing the time in peace and hiding away from the world. A family secret, long held and never discussed, casts a dark shadow and Irina chooses to withdraw into her work. When an antique bureau is sent to her workshop, the owner anonymous, Irina senses a history to the object that makes her uneasy. As Irina begins to investigate the origins of the piece, she unearths the secrets...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th. A few days later, they bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie says she thinks she would be an interesting subject for Alix's podcast. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Alix agrees to a trial interview and indeed, Josie's...
64) Guilty pleasures
Author
Series
Lina Townend Antiques Mystery volume 4
Description
A Lina Townend mystery - The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer's afternoon is helping at a church f�te. However, Robin, the vicar, is an old friend, so Lina ends up selling bric-a-brac. But a harmless event turns into a crisis when someone tries to steal a tatty old snuff box. Tatty it might be, but it's valuable enough for the would-be thief to attack Griff, her dear mentor, to frame Lina for a crime, and to kill an...
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Everyone remembered the summer of ?39 as golden and strange. Golden because it was the driest on record; strange because people were burrowing holes and roofing them with iron. Waiting for the bombs? In the Hampshire town of Markham, Georgia Kennedy wakes on her husband?s last day in Civvy Street and feels elated. Conventionally married to the pompous Hugh, she discovers liberation during the war. Like other women, she embraces the camaraderie previously...
66) The ghost garden
Author
Publisher
Barrington Stoke Ltd
Pub. Date
2021
Description
SUMMER 1914. When Fran unearths a bone in the garden of Longbarrow House on the same afternoon that Leo breaks his leg, it must surely be just a coincidence. But Fran can't shake the uneasy feeling that the events are somehow connected, and there is a shift in the atmosphere that leaves her troubled and anxious. Roped into keeping wheelchair-bound Leo company, Fran is forced to listen to his foolish theories about the looming threat of war in Europe....
Author
Series
Richard Nottingham volume 3
Description
A tale of greed, ambition and thwarted love in eighteenth-century Leeds -July, 1732. On a hot summer morning, Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, is called out when a young woman is found stabbed to death among the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey. In her pocket is a love note: "Soon we'll be together and our hearts can sing loud, my love. W." What happened to the maid who accompanied her mistress on her final, fatal journey? Who is the mysteious 'W'...
68) Twitch
Author
Series
Twitchers volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Description
From the internationally bestselling author of Beetle Boy and the Adventures on Trains series, comes the first book in The Twitchers, a brand new mystery adventure series celebrating friendship, bravery and the incredible world of birds, starring a birdwatching detective called Twitch! Can a birdwatcher outwit an escaped convict? Twitch has three pet chickens, four pigeons, swallows nesting in his bedroom and a passion for birdwatching. On the first...
69) The French girl
Author
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2018
Description
She appears, lithe and tanned, by the swimming pool one afternoon. Severine - the girl next door. It was supposed to be a final celebration for six British graduates, the perfect French getaway, until she arrived. Severine's beauty captivates each of them in turn. Under the heat of a summer sky, simmering tensions begin to boil over - years of jealousy, competitiveness and longing rise dangerously to the surface. And then Severine disappears. A decade...
70) The grave tattoo
Author
Appears on list
Description
A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the Bounty, had secretly returned to England?Scholar Jane Gresham wants to find out. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth, a friend of Christian's, may have...
71) Fatal chaos
Author
Series
Fatal volume 12
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018
Description
First the calm. Then the storm?Escaping DC during the dog days of summer is one of the smartest moves Washington metro police lieutenant Samantha Holland ever made. Beach walks aren?t quite as romantic with the Secret Service in tow, but Sam and her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano, cherish the chance to recharge and reconnect-especially with a scandal swirling around the administration.No sooner are they back home than a fatal drive-by shooting...
72) Cloudburst
Author
Series
Jack Courtney volume 1
Publisher
Piccadilly Press
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Jack Courtney has lived in the UK his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they've promised to take Jack and his friends with them. When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems to have any answers. Jack is pretty sure that it's got something to do with the nearby tantalum mines, but he needs to prove it. Along with Amelia...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2020
Description
*The Top 10 Bestseller* 'Beautifully written, comforting and utterly uplifting, Lucy Coleman?s stories are the perfect tonic when life is a little grey.' Holly Martin Is a change as good as a rest? When married couple Fern and Aiden have a windfall, their reactions could not be more different. While Fern is content to pay off their mortgage and build a nest egg before starting a family, her husband is set on traveling the world. Fern?s not much of...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2018
Description
1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind. Seventeen years and two children later, Josephine gets a call from her sister to tell her that their mother is dying and wants to see her - a summons she can't refuse. 1997: Ten-year-old Clare is counting down to the summer holidays, when she is going to...
75) Mortal sins
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Slave shacks and swamps form the backdrop for gritty crime and dark, dark secrets? On a summer night in 1927, in a slave shack on his family estate, infamous lawyer Charles St Claire has been found brutally murdered. In the big house stands his wife. Remy Lelourie is a hometown girl made good - a glamorous Hollywood filmstar and one of the most beautiful women in America. She is covered in bruises and soaked in her husband?s blood. As in any small...
Author
Series
The Little Cornish Isles volume 2
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The Little Cornish Isles is the heartwarming new series from the bestselling author of Summer at the Cornish Cafe. Authors love Phillipa Ashley?s books:?Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read.? Katie Fforde?Filled with warm and likeable characters. Great fun!? Jill Mansell?A glorious, tantalising taste of Cornwall, I could almost taste the salt of the sea air as I read it.? Jules Wake?The perfect read for wherever you take your...
Author
Series
Brother Athelstan volume 7
Publisher
Severn Select
Pub. Date
2012
Description
It's the summer of 1380 and the corpse of Edwin Chapler, clerk of the Office of the Green Wax of the Chancery, has been pulled from the Thames: Chapler has drowned, but not before he received a vicious blow to the back of the head. Then Bartholomew Drayton, a usurer and money-lender, is found dead in his strongroom, a crossbow firmly embedded in his chest: a real mystery because the windowless strongroom was locked and barred from the inside. So who...
78) Clammed up
Author
Series
Maine Clambake Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Summer has come to Busman's Harbor, Maine, and tourists are lining up for a taste of authentic New England seafood, courtesy of the Snowden Family Clambake Company. But there's something sinister on the boil this season. A killer has crashed a wedding party, adding mystery to the menu at the worst possible moment. . . Julia Snowden returned to her hometown to rescue her family's struggling clambake business--not to solve crimes. But that was before...
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The perfect summer escape??Fliss hasnt seen her ex husband Seth for ten years, so when her brother tells her that he has seen Seth working at a vet at a clinic in New York that her dog walking business use, she panics. So when Fliss and her identical twin Harriet recieve word that their elderly grandmother has had a minor stroke and is in need of help, Fliss grabs the chance to escape Manhattan for the Hamptons.Of course, the first person she meets...
Author
Series
Blind Detective volume 6
Pub. Date
2023
Description
First published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning. Summer, 1937. Fred Rowland's peaceful holiday is Cornwall is derailed when a fellow hotel guest and film star is found dead. Fred soon learns that this death took place under suspicious circumstances and finds himself tied up in the police investigation. When his old flame, Secret Service agent Iris Barnes arrives, it becomes clear that this murder has links to the political turmoil of the Spanish...
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