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Lucky
(Paperback)
Marissa Stapley; Read by Soneela Nankani
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R392
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*A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week!* In Allison Montclair's A
Rogue's Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort
Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two
kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge
threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear. In
London, 1946, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau is getting on its feet
and expanding. Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge are
making a go of it. That is until Lord Bainbridge--the widowed
Gwen's father-in-law and legal guardian--returns from a business
trip to Africa and threatens to undo everything important to her,
even sending her six-year-old son away to a boarding school. But
there's more going on than that. A new client shows up at the
agency, one whom Sparks and Bainbridge begin to suspect really has
a secret agenda, somehow involving the Bainbridge family. A murder
and a subsequent kidnapping sends Sparks to seek help from a
dangerous quarter--and now their very survival is at stake.
Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight... An
utterly gripping novel for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham,
from a rising star in the crime genre. A woman is found brutally
murdered on a quiet housing estate, her tongue and eyes
ritualistically gouged out. Children are being abducted and then
returned to their families days later without a scratch and with no
knowledge or where they have been - or with whom. If DC Laura
McGanity thought moving from London to sleepy Lancashire was taking
the easy option then she can think again. Already worried about
uprooting young son Bobby to follow her reporter boyfriend Jack
Garrett back to his hometown, she must quickly get a handle on
these mystifying cases terrifying the people of Blackley - without
putting the local officers' noses out of joint. Meanwhile, restless
Jack is itching to get back to his writing and the cases provide
the perfect opportunity to do so. But as he delves deeper into
them, he finds murky connections between the two crimes and
skeletons buried in the most unlikely of closets. Most astonishing
of all, he meets a man who 'paints' the future - terrible events
come to him in vivid dreams which he then puts onto canvas. This
'precognition' is not so much a gift as a curse and to Jack it
becomes terrifyingly that many people, including his own family,
are in danger...
James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas
among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her
producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are
all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered
on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the
footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight –
and which stopped just shortly after Marcia was last seen alive. How
did the murderer get in and out of the pavilion without leaving a trace?
When Bennett’s uncle, the cantankerous amateur sleuth Sir Henry
Merrivale arrives from London to make sense of this impossible crime,
the reader is treated to a feast of the author’s trademark twists,
beguiling false answers and one of the most ingenious solutions in the
history of the mystery genre.
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Smoke
(Paperback)
Joe Ide
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R430
R363
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This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters
you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. London
1888. Angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and
werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated
truce. A utopia, except for one thing: Angels can Fall, and that
Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical
worlds. Dr J. H. Doyle returns to London having been wounded in
Afghanistan by a Fallen, and finds himself lodging in Baker Street
with the enigmatic angel Crow. But living with a rogue angel is not
so easy; the pair find themselves drawn into the supernatural and
criminal worlds of London, from a man kidnapped by a vampire nest
to Jack the Ripper's horrific murders. Besides Doyle's nightmares,
there is the lingering worry that Crow might Fall...
When Captain Kassie Kasselman of Newlands SAPD starts investigating a missing ex-colleague, it’s quickly clear that more is going on than a simple drug-related disappearance. It somehow seems linked to the kidnapping that has struck his colleague Rooi Els’ wife’s place of work, a curio shop. From the Cape ganglands to Kruger’s rhino poachers, from a grisly smallholding to the glitz of the diplomatic world, Kassie has to feel his way quickly but carefully – or Rooi Els’ wife is fish food. Afrikaans readers have grown to love anti-hero Captain Kassie Kasselman since Rudie van Rensburg’s first crime novel, Slagyster (2013). His unique style of detective story, with a strong focus not only on the investigation but also on the criminals in question, creating a complex and satisfying web of motives and plot, is now available in English for the first time.
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