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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery
Daniel Godwin is determined to join the British Army to fight
against the Nazi scourge. His impetuousness leads him to having a
brief affair with the wife of a good friend and mentor who ran the
local cadet force. She bears a child. Initially guilt ridden he
marries her after hearing of his friend's death in northern France.
Another child is born. Having served in Palestine, luckily
surviving at Dunkerque and returning safely from North Africa he
joins the 1st Airborne battalion whose mission was to take the
bridge at Arnhem. Shortly before leaving England he receives a
letter which shocks him to the core. He became adamant he would not
return home and was taken prisoner in Oosterbeek. In the meantime,
back in the city of Bath, Robbie Goode, along with some old
acquaintances, unravels the mystery of a series of murders. Stella,
Daniel Godwin's wife is implicated, but why?
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Fire in the Thatch
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E.C.R. Lorac; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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Cornered
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Alan Breham, Alan Brenham
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Detroit process server Jack Ryan has a reputation for being the
best in the business at finding people who don't want to be found.
Now he's looking for a missing stockholder known only as "Unknown
Man No. 89." But his missing man isn't "unknown" to everyone: a
pretty blonde hates his guts and a very nasty dude named Royal
wants him dead in the worst way. Which is very unfortunate for Jack
Ryan, who is suddenly caught in the crossfire of a lethal
triple-cross and as much a target as his nameless prey.
IIFor fans of the great detective, this volume collects 10 classic
tales of mystery and detection. In addition to the complete short
novel `The Hound of the Baskervilles', it includes several stories
that Holmes's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, himself selected as the
intrepid pair's greatest adventures: `A Scandal in Bohemia', `The
Speckled Band', `The Red-Headed League' and `The Final Problem', in
which Doyle famously `killed off' his creation. This is one of
Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume
features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an
exquisitely designed foil-stamped binding, with distinctive colored
edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and
collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young
and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.
Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver must follow a trail of
poison-pen letters to save an heiress from murder. Rachel Treherne
has always had a steady head on her shoulders; it's why her late
father named her the sole trustee of his considerable fortune. But
the decision galled a number of Rachel's relatives, including her
married older sister, her socialist nephew, and her father's
ambitious young cousin. Rachel fears she may be overreacting to the
anonymous letters she's received threatening her life, but then
someone tampers with the chocolates she bought herself. If her
cousin hadn't partaken first and noticed an unwholesome taste, who
knows what may have happened? Miss Silver suspects someone in
Rachel's inner circle has grown tired of being a poor relation, and
she travels incognito to the Treherne country home to unmask the
culprit--before it's too late--in this intriguing entry in the
beloved series featuring a contemporary of Agatha Christie's Miss
Marple. Lonesome Road is the 3rd book in the Miss Silver Mysteries,
but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Colombian Retribution revolves around the furious reaction of the
Colombian Cartel to those who thwarted their earlier importation of
drugs into the UK. A plan is hatched in Cartagena at the highest
level of the cartel and a paid assassin is sent first of all to
France, where he murders three people connected to the importation
of the drugs as they were transported through France. The assassin
then travels via the cross-channel ferry to Dover and onwards to
Norfolk, where he murders four more people but misses the one
person he wanted to kill, ex-customs officer, Sarah Mundey. By now
the Serious Organised Crime Agency, aware of the man's activities
set in motion a plan to isolate and expose him to arrest.
Ultimately, the killer travels to Brighton & Hove and murders a
Police Community Support Officer before he eventually tracks
Detective Constable John Ridge to Brighton Town Hall where he
finally comes face-to-face with his nemesis. A violent encounter
takes place in the main hall of the Town Hall between the assassin
and Ridge before moving downstairs to the Victorian male cell block
in the old police station, where the situation reaches its bloody
conclusion.
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Flipped
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Tracey Hawthorne
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In this novel about being seen and what is not seen, the previously hidden is revealed when the unexpected happens.
In the soaking winter of 2010 in the Northern Cape, two teenage girls set off to a party and disappear without a trace. Six years later, during a catastrophic drought, a young woman vanishes while on her way home from work.
In the days following these events, those closest to the missing women are forced to question how well they really know them.
The addictive new psychological thriller from the author of The Girl On The Train, the runaway Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and global phenomenon.
In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn't pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped. And most of all she's afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool...
With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, satisfying read that hinges on the stories we tell about our pasts and their power to destroy the lives we live now.
Blue blood is flowing in London as a killer slits the throats of
the cream of England's aristocracy. Naturally Scotland Yard enlists
the great Sherlock Holmes himself. Only when this ultimate weapon
of the law failed to stem the deaths are they forced to play a last
desperate card - Professor James Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime,
who had his own methods of fighting evil...
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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