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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...
10) 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
Series
Yorkshire Murders volume 5
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Formats
Description
Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in the Yorkshire Murders series from bestseller Wes Markin! A gruesome find. A missing colleague. A case that hits closer to home? As winter settles over Yorkshire, DCI Emma Gardner is hoping that work will calm down for everyone. Distracted by the continued disappearance of DI Paul Riddick Emma can?t seem to get her head back in the game. But when a human skull is discovered in a local pub, Emma knows it?s time...
Author
Series
Seasons of the Storm volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Choice number one: live or die. One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice - live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die. Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter. Like the other Seasons, each year Jack must hunt and kill the one before him. Gaia's rules are pretty straightforward. Winter kills Autumn. Autumn kills Summer. Summer kills Spring. And Spring kills Winter. Which means that Jack kills...
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...
16) Turtle doves
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Second story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive seasonWhen a double suicide arrives at the city morgue, Sandra thinks it?s a Christmas like any other. But she?s about to get a very nasty shock - make that two very nasty shocks?.
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...
18) The snow angel
Author
Pub. Date
2024
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Description
Don't miss the new heartwarming festive novel from No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court - available to pre-order now! As snow falls outside Abbotsford vicarage on Christmas Eve, Rose Northwood finds a child lying destitute in the manger of the town's nativity display. Reminded of her younger brother, who died at Christmastime, she is determined to nurse the young boy back to health. But the child has lost his memory and can't recall where...
19) The winter baby
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Alone at Christmas, will she find somewhere to call home? No more than 18 years old, alone and heavily pregnant, Kathleen stumbles through the snow, desperate for somewhere to rest her weary head. As the Christmas bells chime around her, she glimpses a man through the haze, before collapsing into his arms. On a farm in the beautiful Kent countryside, Jessie and her family take Kathleen in as their own. But little do they know that there's a baby on...
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....
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