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Widow of Bath
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Margot Bennett; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A RICHARD
& JUDY BOOKCLUB SELECTION NOW A NUMBER ONE NETFLIX SERIES
'Timely and compelling' Shari Lapena 'Impressive' The Times
'Gripping' Observer 'Sensational' Clare Mackintosh A high-profile
marriage thrust into the spotlight. A prosecutor who believes
justice has been a long time coming. A scandal that will rock
Westminster. And the women caught at the heart of it. Praise for
Anatomy of a Scandal: 'Magnificent' Marian Keyes 'Intelligent,
subtle and thought-provoking' Louise Candlish 'The definition of a
page-turner' Elizabeth Day 'Almost impossible to put down' Louise
O'Neill 'Once the trial of MP James Whitehouse starts, you could
not have prised the book from hands for love or money' Jake
Kerridge, Sunday Express 'An absolute masterpiece - prepare to be
very impressed' heat 'A lot of reviews claim that a novel has them
'hooked from the start' - but with this story, it's painfully true'
Grazia 'A timely thriller about marriage, but also about power, who
wields it, and how that affects who we believe' Stylist
'Well-written, pacy and full of twists and turns' Independent 'New
Netflix series lays bare the toxic privilege of those in power...
Friend's performance is eerily plausible. His Whitehouse is
charismatic and smoothly persuasive, his eloquence barely
concealing his arrogance... Equally strong is Miller as Sophie, who
is forced for the first time to examine her own cosseted way of
life and the principles she has sacrificed to preserve it'
Financial Times 'This drama will immediately entire fans of House
of Cards, Apple Tree Yard and The Undoing.... Miller is excellent
as the elegant, brittle Sophie, who is forced to watch her
beautifully organised house fall out of order, the heart of a drama
that manages to feel both aesthetically glossy and morally gritty'
Sunday Times Culture 'Feels like it could have been ripped from the
headlines' Evening Standard 'A cautionary tale for our times' Daily
Telegraph **OUT NOW: REPUTATION, THE THRILLING AND TIMELY NEW NOVEL
FROM SARAH VAUGHAN**
December 2016 - A severed hand is found washed up on a beach next
to the Queen's estate at Sandringham. Elizabeth has become quite
accustomed to solving even the most complex of murders. And though
she quickly identifies the 70-year-old victim, Edward St Cyr, from
his signet ring, the search for his killer is not so
straightforward. St Cyr led an unconventional, often controversial
life, making many enemies along the way in the quiet, rural world
of North Norfolk, where everyone knows each other's business. But
when a second man is found dead, and a prominent local woman is
nearly killed in a hit-and-run, the mystery takes an even darker
turn. With the Christmas break coming to an end, the Queen and her
trusted assistant Rozie must race to discover how the pieces of the
puzzle fit together. Or the next victim may be found even closer to
home.
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Neon Rain
(Paperback)
BURKE JAMES LEE
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKE THE NEON RAIN Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
Reporter Rex Tracey has just recovered from his affair with
Lithuanian artist Milda Majauskas when she disappears. He's got
other concerns, not least an anti-immigration group spreading hate
across Tottenham, and a string of attacks on young women at the
local beauty spot, Alexandra Palace. But when Milda's body is
found, and Rex becomes a murder suspect, he is forced to seek
answers.
"A super cozy mystery... The perfect pick up for a weekend read by
the fire. It has everything... Hijinks, who-dun-its, loveable
characters, and a wonderful setting. And a main character who is
FIERCE" NetGalley review She can write the perfect murder
mystery... But can she solve one in real life? Meet Jen Dawson,
mystery writer, coffee lover, and amateur detective? Crime writer
Jen returns to her small hometown with a bestselling book behind
her and a bad case of writer's block. Finding sanctuary in the
local bookstore, with an endless supply of coffee, Jen waits
impatiently for inspiration to strike. But when the owner of the
bookstore dies suddenly in mysterious circumstances, Jen has a
real-life murder to solve. The stakes are suddenly higher when
evidence places Jen at the scene of the crime and the reading of
the will names her as the new owner of the bookstore ... Can she
crack the case and clear her name, before the killer strikes again?
Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Lauren Elliott and Ellery
Adams, this is an absolutely gripping new bookish cozy crime series
that will have you hooked from the very first page. Readers adore
Murder at the Bookstore: "Warm, amusing, and relatable... A very
entertaining cozy mystery... A relaxing night-time read, and it was
perfect for that... I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys
cozy mysteries" NetGalley review "I loved trying to figure out the
murder before I got to the end. This was a cozy, page-turning read"
NetGalley review "This ingenious author has written a cannot put
down novel" NetGalley review
'Probably the fastest thriller and most unrelentingly tense
thriller I've read since The Chain' 4 star reader review
'Absolutely phenomenal' 5 star reader review 'Kept me hooked from
the very start!' 5 star reader review 'Believe me, you'll not want
to put this down' 5 star reader review 'Everything about Do No Harm
was absolutely brilliant' 5 star reader review 'Had me GRIPPED!' 4
star reader review 'So full of tension and twists!' 5 star reader
review 'It gripped me from page 1' Reader review 'An absolute edge
of your seat belter. I urge you to pre-order it now' Reader review
'Let me be the first one to call it: Do No Harm is going to be
HUGE!' Reader review 'Thriller fans will be in heaven' Louise
Candlish 'Chilling and perfectly paced, one to put on the very top
of your TBR!' Sarah Pearse My son has been taken. And I've been
given a choice... Kill a patient on the operating table. Or never
see him again. The man lies on the table in front of me. As a
surgeon, it's my job to save him. As a mother, I know I must kill
him. You might think that I'm a monster. But there really is only
one choice. I must get away with murder. Or I will never see my son
again. I'VE SAVED MANY LIVES. WOULD YOU TRUST ME WITH YOURS? DON'T
MISS THE HEART-STOPPING THRILLER OF 2022 #DONOHARM 'With proper
breath-taking, pulse-racing levels of tension. Tracking heart
surgeon Anna as she grapples with an impossible moral dilemma, I
almost felt I was going under the knife myself' LOUISE CANDLISH
'When you pick up a book to read the first page and then can't put
it down . . . ' SARAH PEARSE 'Utterly gripping, addictive and
brilliantly tense' KAREN HAMILTON 'Do No Harm hooked me . . . What
a terrifying ride!' GILLY MACMILLAN 'With an agonising dilemma at
its heart and a pace that never lets up . . . A corker of a
thriller' KATE RIORDAN 'Had me on the edge of my seat . . . Do No
Harm is brilliantly thrilling' NADINE MATHESON 'Seriously
terrifying, chilling and unputdownable' EMMA CURTIS 'An
edge-of-your-seat, head-spinning thriller with emotion and depth
woven through its heart' LAUREN NORTH 'A brilliant example of
psychological crime writing at its very best' KATE RHODES 'The
ultimate page turning edge-of-your-seat thriller. Loved it' NIKKI
SMITH 'A real winner: gut-wrenching, nail-biting and
thought-provoking' ROBIN MORGAN-BENTLEY 'The definition of edge of
your seat, nail-biting, buttock-clenching thriller' LOUISE BEECH
'The most nail biting book I've read this year. . . An absolute
rollercoaster, you won't be able to put it down' HOLLY SEDDON
On the outskirts of Durban, a car is hijacked. The owner, Suzanne
Fessey, fights back and kills one thief but the other, wounded,
escapes with her baby strapped into the back seat. Called in to
pursue the missing vehicle are helicopter tracker pilot Nia Carras,
and wildlife researcher Mike Dunn, the only man nearby on the
ground who can follow the car. The police have bigger problems; a
suicide bomber has killed the visiting American ambassador, and
chaos has descended on KwaZulu-Natal. As Mike and Nia track the
missing baby through game reserves from Zululand to Zimbabwe, they
soon realise that Suzanne is much more than a worried mother, and
that the war on terror has erupted in their part of the world.
Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest
short stories of 2021. There is no finer form for a crime than the
short story. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered, divulged
and its significance determined; all else is mere embellishment.
The classic mystery tale will be familiar to aficionados and casual
readers alike: it was invented by Edgar Allen Poe, popularised by
Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by Agatha Christie. But mystery
fiction has changed a great deal over the years - as have all
things - and the writers within these pages present far more than a
simple case of crime and resolution. Far from predictable, these
stories provide fertile grounds of aberrant circumstances and the
poor choices they lead to. You will find diverse methods and
motivations, original perspectives and perils. Above all, you will
find tales of the extremes of human psychology caused by despair,
hate, greed, fear, envy, insanity or love. Featuring stories by:
Doug Allyn, Jim Allyn, Ambrose Bierce, Michael Bracken, James Lee
Burke, Martin Edwards, John Floyd, Jacqueline Freimor, Alison
Gaylin, Sue Grafton, Paul Kemprecos, Stephen King, Janice Law,
Dennis McFadden, David Marcum, Tom Mead, David Morrell, Joyce Carol
Oates, Sara Paretsky, Joseph Walker, Andrew Welsh-Huggins.
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Green for Danger
(Paperback)
Christianna Brand; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military
hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the
sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering
will turn out to be a murderer in a year's time. When Higgins is
brought in following injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his
inexplicable death from asphyxiation at the operating table casts
four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second death
in quick succession invites the presence of the irascible - yet
uncommonly shrewd - Inspector Cockrill to the scene. As the
prospect of driving back across Kent amid falling bombs detains the
inspector for the night, a tense and claustrophobic investigation
begins to determine who committed the foul deeds, and how it was
possible to kill with no evidence left behind.
’n Reeks geheimsinnige oorsese betalings aan weeskinders van die Bosoorlog het die Inkomstediens diep bekommerd. Dit dra die vingermerke van die ou SAW se koverte intelligensiegroep, Delta 40.
Tex se aandag is erg verdeel tussen dié saak en die selfdood van die Engelsman, ‘n oud-makker, wat uit gewetensbeswaardheid nooit aan ‘n vuurwapen gevat het nie. Met Carlos nou terug in Angola, probeer Tex die vreemde omstandighede van die Engelsman se dood opsy skuif en Helena met die naspoor van die geheimsinnige transaksies help.
Maar hy en Carlos se bosoorlog-verlede – en die spoor van ‘n ivoor-smokkelnetwerk wat hulle saam met die Engelsman in Angola oopgekrap het – bly opdring tot Tex dit nie meer kan ignoreer nie.
A SUNDAY POST TOP PICK FOR SUMMER READING 'This latest DCI Daley
thriller is deftly plotted and peopled with sympathetically drawn
local characters and satisfyingly nuanced local wrongdoers' - Irish
Independent When a light aircraft crash-lands at Machrie airport,
DCI Jim Daley and his colleague Brian Scott rush to the scene. But
it soon becomes clear that both occupants of the plane were dead
before take-off ... Meanwhile in Kinloch, local fisherman Hamish is
unwittingly dragged into danger when he witnesses something he
shouldn't, and hotel manager Annie is beginning to suspect her new
boss may not be as he first appeared. And just as Chief
Superintendent Carrie Symington thinks she has finally escaped the
sins of her past, she finds herself caught in an even deadlier
trap. As the action spills across the sea to County Antrim - all
under the scrutiny of the Security Service - the search is on for
any other truth.
THRILLERS THAT RACE FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE . . . 'Felix Francis'
novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper 'From winning post to
top of the bestseller lists' Sunday Times An old friend in need, a
dangerous conspiracy - a new case for Sid Halley... Sid Halley,
former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not
having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some time
out of their marriage to think about the future and Sid is
devastated. But then Gary Bremner, an ex-jockey trainer, calls him
to ask for his help - he is being threatened by someone in the
racing world and he needs a friend he can trust. However, the very
next morning, Gary's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and
Gary has disappeared. Determined to uncover the truth and to help
his friend, Sid starts to investigate. He soon finds himself
embroiled in a conspiracy that cuts to the very heart of the
integrity of British horse racing, and then danger comes closer to
home than ever. Can Sid get to the bottom of what's going on before
he too becomes a victim, while, at the same time, saving his
marriage? Praise for Felix Francis's novels 'As usual with a
Francis, once I opened the book, I didn't want to put it down...
Felix's resolution is darker and more shocking than his father
would ever have contemplated, but reflects grittier times and
changing tastes in fiction' Country Life 'He has become his own man
as a purveyor of murder mysteries' The Racing Post 'The Francis
flair is clear for all to see' Daily Mail 'From winning post to top
of the bestseller list, time after time' Sunday Times 'The master
of suspense and intrigue' Country Life 'A tremendous read' Woman's
Own
Into the Dark is the new gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins
about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of friendship.
'Complex. Inventive. Twisting. Unsettling' - Sarah Vaughan,
bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal THE PLACE: Seawings, a
beautiful art deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in
Midtown-on-Sea. THE CRIME: The gilded Holden family - Piper and
Gray and their two teenage children, Riva and Artie - have vanished
from the house without a trace. THE DETECTIVE: DS Saul Anguish,
brilliant but with a dark past, treads the narrow line between
light and shade. One late autumn morning, Piper's best friend
arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene - the radio is
playing, phones are charging on the worktop, the cars are in the
garage. But the house is deserted. In fifteen-year-old Riva
Holden's bedroom, scrawled across the mirror in blood, are three
words: Make Them Stop. What happens next?
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'To have been lucky
enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson
Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is
a terrific thing' Gary Oldman Spooks are supposed to be stealthy
... But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in
Slough House. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for
spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses,
condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of
drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal.
In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and
squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of
them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the
one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the
action. So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his
beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses
aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can
prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public
execution is going to echo round the world. 'The most exciting
development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'The most
enjoyable British spy novel in years.' Mail on Sunday 'The new spy
master' Evening Standard
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of
Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve
remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of
twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will
introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author
reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their own unique
perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional
mystery. * Naomi Alderman * Leigh Bardugo * Alyssa Cole * Lucy
Foley * Elly Griffiths * Natalie Haynes * Jean Kwok * Val McDermid
* Karen M. McManus * Dreda Say Mitchell * Kate Mosse * Ruth Ware
Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie
wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance
in a full-length novel in 1930's The Murder at the Vicarage. It has
been 45 years since Agatha Christie's last Marple novel, Sleeping
Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of
ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely
reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female
detective of all time.
We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your
children, we know your secrets. But now you know one of ours...
Rules for being a maid: * No smoking * No boyfriends * No visitors
* And most importantly: be invisible... Corazon, Angel and Donita
have all come to Singapore to work for a living. The thing that
unites them? Their labour must remain unseen. But when a friend is
accused of murdering her employer, everything changes. The accused
could be any of them; they all know the stories of women who were
scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn't commit. Each
woman has secrets to keep, yet they must gather every ounce of
bravery, fearlessness and complete audacity to clear the name of
one of their own. After all, no-one knows the secrets of
Singapore's elite quite like the women who work in their homes...
Picked as one of Stylist magazine's 'Fiction Books You Can't Miss
in 2022' and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award 2022 'Tense
and vividly atmospheric, with a determined, independent heroine
intent on the truth . . . beautifully written, unflinching and
brimming with adventure' - Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of
Ariadne 'A stunning debut . . . paints a memorable picture of
ambition, sacrifice and corruption while exploring personal loss as
driving force' - Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake Fortune
favours the brave in Lizzie Pook's mesmerising debut novel,
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter 1886, BANNIN BAY, AUSTRALIA.
The Brightwell family has sailed from England to make their new
home in Western Australia. Ten-year-old Eliza knows little of what
awaits them on these shores beyond shining pearls and shells like
soup plates - the things her father has promised will make their
fortune. ~~~ Ten years later and Charles Brightwell, now the bay's
most prolific pearler, goes missing from his ship while out at sea.
Whispers from the townsfolk suggest mutiny and murder, but
headstrong Eliza, convinced there is more to the story, refuses to
believe her father is dead, and it falls to her to ask the
questions no one else dares consider. But in a town teeming with
corruption, prejudice and blackmail, Eliza soon learns that the
truth can cost more than pearls, and she must decide just how much
she is willing to pay - and how far she is willing to go - to find
it . . . 'Gritty, lyrical, breath-taking. I couldn't put it down' -
Fiona Valpy, author of The Dressmaker's Gift 'Adventure, feminist
heroine, crocodiles and jellyfish, dangerous men, secrets, grief
love and hope... It's not just good, it's important. Lizzie shines
a light on a dark part of British history with grace, skill,
sensitivity and honesty. I LOVED IT - Nikki May, author of Wahala
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