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Author
Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The Cotswolds, 1947. The relentless winter of 1947 holds post-war Britain in its deadly grip, and Eleanor Phillips rides out from her beleaguered Cotswold farm to rescue a stranger lost in the storm. But the near-dead man is no stranger and when she recognises Matthew Croft, the old ties of a failed romance tug deeply. Her sweetheart has returned from the war? Suspicion, the police and the panicked flight of a desperate man beat a path to her door....
Author
Publisher
The Friday Project
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Butterfly Winter, W. P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, an enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question. The brothers are born to play baseball, they even played catch in the womb, and at the age of ten they leave home for the American Major...
3) Winter Chill
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground. Friends and colleagues in Marian's Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents. Then the rumors start--that these...
Author
Series
The Last Policeman Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There?s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. � The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job-but not Hank Palace. He?s investigating a death by...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A gorgeous story of chance meetings and unexpected friendships. Because sometimes what you?ve always wished for isn?t necessarily what life has in store . . . Marriage. It?s a dream come true. Isn?t it?One wet winter night, two women meet on a bridge. One is Tess Taylor, a personal trainer on the way to meet her boyfriend for date night. The other is Kate King, a celebrity married to a handsome billionaire who just happens to make her cry. In the...
Author
Series
At Cedarwood Lodge volume 4
Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2017
Description
After years of dreaming, Clio Winters is finally fulfilling her childhood dream of renovating the gorgeous old Cedarwood Lodge in Evergreen and turning it into the perfect destination for celebrations, weddings and extravagant birthday parties. The huge property used to be a bustling holiday camp, now Clio wants to bring it back to its halcyon days - which will be a lot of hard work! Returning back to the small town of her youth she?s glad to have...
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn't help you survive Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As memories of her old life haunt her, she has been forced to forge ahead in the snow-covered Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap to survive. But her fragile existence is about to be shattered. Shadows of the world before have...
Author
Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Catch up with Cleo and Scott in this fabulously feel-good festive readBeing pregnant with her ex-boyfriend?s baby is the last thing on Cleo Jones?s Christmas wish list. Scott might have been the man of her dreams once upon a time, but things change and now Cleo faces a future as a single mum? Or does she?Scott won?t let Cleo go through this alone; whatever their differences he?s vowed to be there, from antenatal classes to night feeds and nappy changing....
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2014
Description
SLEIGH BELLS IN THE SNOW Marketing whiz Kayla Green hates Christmas- but when her newest client, Jackson O?Neil, invites her to visit and experience his family business, Snow Crystal Resort and Spa, she can hardly refuse. After spending a few flirty festive nights in this glittering winter wonderland, Christmas will be never the same again. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER Fiery French chef �lise Phillipe has left behind her troubled past, but then sexy surgeon...
Author
Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Can Eva find love this Christmas?Eva Harris has her hands full juggling a young son, a disobedient dog and running her thriving seaside guesthouse, so really the last thing she needs is to be distracted by her new neighbour, ridiculously handsome but arrogant Ben Matthews.For one thing, she?s got nothing in common with the man, Ben?s a high flying lecturer at the town?s university while she barely scraped through high school, for another he?s fresh...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Now reissued in a new cover style. One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
Author
Publisher
HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2017
Description
There?s nothing more magical than a winter wonderland wedding but when photographer Holly North returns to the cosy village of St Aidan she?s determined to avoid romance and the festive season full stop. She?s doing one small favour for a friend?s wedding and then her plans involve diving under her duvet and avoiding any sign of Christmas cheer - and gorgeous but insufferable Rory Sanderson - for the rest of December! That is until Christmas arrives...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Deepest winter. An isolated island off the coast of Maine. A man. A woman. Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .) And . . . A mysterious house looming over the sea . . . He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing...
Author
Publisher
HQ DIgital
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Louise Beech?This is just one of those books that edged under my skin very early on in the story and I suspect will stay wedged for a long while to come.? Rachel GilbeyJourneying across the Arctic, their pasts are about to catch up with them.Erica, Molly and Noah are embarking on the challenge of a lifetime, driving Siberian huskies across the frozen wilderness of the Arctic. Cut off from the world and their loved ones and thrown together under gruelling...
16) Divided kingdom
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Description
It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by concrete walls, armed...
Author
Publisher
No Exit Press
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In the depths of a Norwegian winter Vilhelm Thygesen discovers a frozen young woman in his garden. She has been stabbed to death. A well-known left-wing lawyer and no friend of the police, Thygesen is now sixty-three, given to wearing designer clothes and taking life easy. Stribolt and Vaage, the police officers assigned to the case, assume the victim was a drug courier from Eastern Europe. Shortly afterwards a young motorcyclist belonging to a biker...
Author
Series
Harry Corbin volume 2
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The new mystery from the author of Bodies in Winter - NYPD detective Harry Corbin hasn't been allowed to work on a homicide case for almost a year following his unearthing of corruption amongst his colleagues and superiors. So when a young woman's body is found dumped and mutilated on a sweltering New York morning, Corbin jumps at the chance to redeem his career and solve the case - and finds himself on a journey into the dark and secretive world...
Author
Series
Mulberry Lane volume 4
Publisher
Aria
Pub. Date
2018
Description
1943, Mulberry Lane, London. In the midst of another bleak winter, life is hard for the residents of The Lane. When Rose Merchant arrives at Mulberry Lane, she is carrying a secret that haunts her. How can she tell her landlady and the Lanes' matriarch Peggy Ashley that she is the daughter of a murderer? As Rose learns that she is amongst friends she gradually learns to trust and even to love. But when Peggy's estranged husband Laurie returns home...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Description
THE STRANGER: A series of tragic road accidents and the murder of a reality TV contestant mark the end to a quiet winter for Detective Patrik Hedstr�m. THE HIDDEN CHILD: The discovery of a Nazi medal in her late mother?s belongings leads Erica Falck to dig into her family?s past, and drag a dark truth from WW2 into the light? THE DROWNING: When a local author and his circle of friends receive death threats, his mentor crime writer Erica Falck investigates....
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