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The Wrong Hands
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Mark Billingham
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This is one case Miller won't want to open . . .
Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate
to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his
doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands.
Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by
local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be
responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but
unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous
fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of.
Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a
woman driven over the edge by a wayward Crème Egg, and Miller is in a
mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself - and her family history - in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.
The first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon when a single, dying raven lands on the pavement in front of Diana Bishop, harbinger of an invitation that reads, 'It's time you came home, Diana'.
Diana is a witch and scholar; her husband Matthew Clairmont, a vampire. Their intense love for one another awoke the dark powers within her and dissolved the Covenant between the three species - Witch, Daemon and Vampire - that live alongside humans. Now, the governing Congregation has decided it must test the magical powers of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Becca. Concerned with their safety, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and travels to Ravenswood, the Proctor family home.
There, Diana begins a new era, becoming her great aunt Gwyneth's pupil in higher magic. It's time to confront her family's past - and her own, inescapable desire for greater power.
A feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.
Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped her family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together.
So, when her mother's obnoxious new white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his flawed knowledge of Korean culture and ogling Asian waitresses in restaurants, Ji-won's hold over her emotions strains. As he gawks at her and her sister around their claustrophobic apartment, Ji-won becomes more and more obsessed with his brilliant blue eyeballs.
As her fixation and rage grow, Ji-won decides that she must do the one thing that will save her family... and also curb her cravings.
The third book in award‑winning author Claire North's Songs of Penelope Trilogy, a "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" (Jennifer Saint) reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men.
Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break . . .
A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suitors - but Penelope recognises in him something terrible: her husband, Odysseus, returned at last. Yet this Odysseus is no hero. By returning to the island in disguise, he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors - vengeance that will spark a civil war - but he's testing the loyalty of his queen. Has she been faithful to him all these years? And how much blood is Odysseus willing to shed to be sure?
The song of Penelope is ending, and the song of Odysseus must ring through Ithaca's halls. But first, Penelope must use all her cunning to win a war for the fate of the island and keep her family alive, whatever the cost...
A new Sherlock Holmes novel, endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate.
Two adversaries. One deadly alliance. Together, can they unlock the
truth?
Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr John Watson, have been
hired by actor George Reynolds to help him solve a puzzle. George wants
them to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform every
night are the same people, only wearing disguises. Is something
sinister going on and, if so, what?
Meanwhile, Holmes’ archenemy, Professor James Moriarty is having
problems of his own. Implicated in the murder of a gang leader,
Moriarty and his second, Moran, must go on the run from the police in
order to find out who is behind the set-up.
But their investigation puts them in the way of Holmes and Watson and
it’s not long before all four realise that they are being targeted by
the same person. With lives on the line, not just their own, they must
form an uneasy alliance in order to unmask the true villain. With clues
leading them to a hotel in Switzerland and a conspiracy far greater
than any of them expected, who can be trusted – and will anyone of them
survive?
Bessie Botha, deesdae weduwee Botha, woon saam met haar broer, Willem,
op ’n kleinhoewe buite Bloemfontein. 1974 was tot dusver nie ’n goeie
jaar nie, en om alles te kroon is oorlede Stefaans se welgestelde broer
en sy jong neus-in-die-lug vrou op pad om te kom
kuier.
Bessie ontferm haar oor al wat kind en dier is in die gemeenskap. Sy
meng ook graag by ander se sake in wanneer dit lyk asof Dominee of
Gezina, die nuwe voorsitster van die sustersvereniging, nie hul kant
bring nie.
Wanneer die veertienjarige Annatjie de Villiers weer een Sondag ná kerk
langs die treinspoor staan en flikkers gooi vir al wat ’n treindrywer
is, besluit Bessie om die meisiekind ’n boek in die hand te stop sodat
sy kan léér waar babas vandaan kom.
Bessie se hangkasbiblioteek is propvol heimwee en humor, met
uiteenlopende karakters net so kleurryk soos die boeke in Bessie se
spaarkamerhangkas. Madelein Rust op haar beste!
Jaxon Riley is exceptional at three things: starting fights on the ice, picking up women post-game, and going home to fulfill his role as the world’s best cat dad. Relationships, unfortunately, missed the list.
Lennon Hayes is supposed to be on her honeymoon. Instead, she’s alone and single, vacationing next door to a surly tattooed man who ran his date off the resort. When a run-in at the bar results in a night of bickering and cocktails, she finds herself tumbling into bed with the enemy next door, then sneaking out before the sun comes up.
Lennon’s plan to start over in a new city is going great, until she starts her new job. The job? The Vancouver Vipers’ new photographer. And the defenseman scowling at her from across the room? The one-night stand she wasn’t supposed to see again. Good thing neither of them are looking for anything serious… Right?
Jaxon may not be used to falling, but if he’s going to go, he refuses to go alone. If he falls, he wants Lennon to fall with him.
When secrets from Jason Bourne's past come to light, he may be the next
thing that's buried. The latest thrilling instalment in the legendary
New York Times bestselling series from the world of Robert Ludlum.
It's been over a decade since Nash Rollins recruited a brilliant,
talented, but disaffected young man named David Webb to join
Treadstone. Webb became the agent known as Cain - and later took on the
identity of Jason Bourne.
That violent winter which included Cain’s first mission for Treadstone
was also a story of betrayal in ways that David never knew. So after
the injury that erased Bourne’s whole life, Nash lied about the
circumstances of David’s recruitment to Treadstone. He was afraid that
learning the truth might drive Bourne out of the agency forever.
But now, when Bourne meets a woman who recognises him as David Webb,
the secrets of those days begin to come out - and Bourne is forced to
confront the dangerous ghosts of a past he doesn’t even remember.
Discover the gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling
author of the Logan McRae series
THE CLOCK IS TICKING...
Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job –
transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing
murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the 'Fortnight
Killer'.
Every two weeks another couple is targeted. One victim is left at the
scene, their corpse used as a twisted message board. The second body is
never seen again.
This should be the perfect chance for Angus to prove himself, but
instead of working on the investigation’s front line, he’s lumbered
with the forensic psychologist from hell. A sarcastic know-it-all
American, on loan from the FBI, who seems determined to alienate
everyone while dragging Angus into a shadowy world of conspiracies,
lies, and violence.
It’s been twelve days since the Fortnight Killer last struck, and the
investigation’s running out of time. Angus's shiny new job might just
be the death of him…
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?
Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
James Falconer returns in the third House of Falconer historical novel
from multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford.
The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London market,
stands in the trenches, awaiting the command to go over the top. Away
from his business empire in London, he is simply a soldier, war the
great leveller.
But, unlike his men, and unknown to them, deep down, Falconer doesn’t
care if he lives or dies.
When a face from the past offers James the chance to repair his
fractured relationship with his estranged daughter, Leonie, he must
decide if he can hold different things dear – and make space in his
life for love.
But the war has left terrible scars, both personal and professional,
and swept huge changes through the glittering world he once inhabited.
James must weather myriad storms as he attempts to right past wrongs
and build a new lif
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The Perfect Son
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Freida McFadden
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"Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about
the girl who disappeared last night..."
Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening
when two detectives show up at her front door.
A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban
neighborhood. The police suspect the worst--murder. And Erika's teenage
son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive.
Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly
perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the
evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth--Liam may have done the
unthinkable.
The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.
On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light
of her mother's resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior
grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother – how to
fight, how to be strong, how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness.
When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis
must venture onward through the rich but unforgiving landscapes of the
American South alone: from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the
slave markets of New Orleans, and into the fearsome heart of a
Louisiana sugar plantation. Searching for relief in memories of her
mother, she opens herself to a world beyond her own, teeming with
spirits of earth, water, history and myth.
A reimagining of American slavery as beautifully rendered as it is
heart-wrenching, Let Us Descend offers a magnificent portrait of the
strength of the human spirit and its ability to emerge from darkness
into light. This is a story of beauty, love, rebirth and reclamation –
a masterwork for the ages.
Sophie
Liam is Formula 1's golden boy.
But he's nothing but a fraud.
Charming. Devious. Seductive.
And someone who promises to fulfill all my naughty bucket list items.
I force him behind the safe lines of the friend zone.
Instead of accepting our friendship, he strikes a deal.
One season. One list. One dirty secret.
Liam
Sophie is my greatest fantasy brought to life.
And a major threat to my contract renewal.
She's a part of the rival team and someone I should resist at all costs.
Everyone is against our friendship.
My boss. Her dad. Me.
Yet, I'm captivated by her and the naughty list she created.
Screw platonic, I want catastrophic.
Collided is a steamy standalone in the Dirty Air world. Recommended for
mature audiences.
When Murphy Meyer arrives at Eden State Hospital on the first of
January 2001, driven to solve a small, personal mystery, the young
doctor has no idea she’s deposited herself into something larger and
darker than she could ever have imagined; something that has a life of
its own.
Few at Eden State Hospital can claim to be single minded where
duplicity is standard operating procedure.
Skye has been with Tim forever and the last thing she's thinking about is saying 'I do'. It's Tim that enters the dream wedding competition - he's longing to win an all-expenses-paid trip to romantic Montenello. An escape to a beautiful Italian hill town might be just what they need to find love again...
Ana definitely isn't interested in getting married - she doesn't need a man to make her happy. But when she loses her job at a glossy food magazine, she jumps at the chance of a new life, renovating a crumbling Italian farmhouse. Her handsome (and very distracting) neighbour definitely isn't part of the plan.
One thing's for sure, this summer has surprises in store!
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Day
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Michael Cunningham
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As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of
growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the
things that are most precious – and learning to go on.
April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of
domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband
and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother,
Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the
attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend,
has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out
of the house – and whose departure threatens to break the family apart.
And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps
toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice
the growing rift between her parents.
April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is
feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows
open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each
other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs.
And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin
with nothing but his thoughts – and his secret Instagram life – for
company.
April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family
comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality – with what
they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on.
From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham,
Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and
the struggles and limitations of family life – how to live together and
apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.
The Concubine, Elechi Amadi's most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality.
Ihuoma is a woman of great beauty and dignity, beloved in a village that remains untouched by colonialism. By all accounts, she should be happy and in love. Yet she faces misfortune after misfortune when a mysterious force makes any suitor that she falls in love with meet an inexplicable – and unpleasant – end...
Brimming with lyrical prose, jealous gods, and masterful suspense, The Concubine is a tale about Igbo culture and beliefs. An unforgettable story full of beauty and tragedy.
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Play Along
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Liz Tomforde
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The new sports romance for 2024 with steam, fake dating and a Vegas wedding - from the TikTok sensation Windy City Series.
Kennedy:
I'm the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors baseball team, and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I'm desperate to land my dream job with a new team next year. All I have to do is maintain my professional reputation for my final season in Chicago. But a Las Vegas run-in with the team's shortstop threatens it all, leaving me with a fuzzy memory and a ring on my left hand. Now, not only am I legally bound to the most persistent man I've ever met, but thanks to Isaiah's scheme to save my job, I have to pretend the whole thing was a planned elopement and not a drunken mistake. Isaiah Rhodes is reckless, impulsive, and frustratingly charming. He's also my brand-new husband. They got the saying wrong. What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas... sometimes it follows you right back home.
Isaiah:
As the shortstop for Chicago's professional baseball team, I've had my fair share of fun. But that all ended the day Kennedy Kay became a single woman. I've crushed on the team's athletic trainer for years. I've flirted to no avail, so imagine my surprise when I woke up in Sin City with a ring on my finger and my favourite redhead in my bed. We agree to stay married for one baseball season, just long enough to keep her job safe, but in my mind, I'm using our time together to prove to her I'm husband material. Kennedy might be reluctant to join in on our game, but it's one I refuse to lose. So come on, wife... play along.
Chloe Gong returns with power plays, spilled blood, and lethal romance in the thrilling fantasy sequel to New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Immortal Longings, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er’s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She now serves as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne.
Only Calla knows it isn’t really August.
Anton Makusa is still furious about Calla’s betrayal in the final round of the games. In an impossible feat, he took over August’s body to survive and has no intention of giving up this newfound power. But when his first love, the beautiful, explosive Otta Avia, awakens from a yearslong coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy’s authority over Talin, chaos erupts.
As tensions come to a boiling point, Calla and Anton must set their conflicts aside and head to the kingdom’s far reaches to prevent anarchy...even if their empire might be better off burning.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it.
A tumultuous neighbourhood known as 'the alley' has seen successive heroes rise and fall as they struggle to defend the rights left to them by their great ancestor, Gebelawi.
From the supreme feudal lord who disowns one son for pride and puts another to the test, to the saviour who tries to free his people from bondage, the men and woman of the alley seem unable to stop themselves from reenacting the lives of their holy forbearers. Through their successes and failures, the spiritual history of humankind is revealed.
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Throttled
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Lauren Asher
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Noah
Maya Alatorre is the sister of my teammate…and my new obsession.
Keeping my distance during the Formula 1 season should be easy, except
I always find ways to see her.
Press tours. Pre-race rituals. Sponsor events and black-tie galas.
The more time we spend together, the stronger my desire grows.
Sneaking around with her is one thing, but wanting more?
Never going to happen.
She might be a distraction dressed like a daydream, but no woman is
worth risking the championship title over.
Or so I thought.
Maya
Noah Slade is Formula 1 royalty and my brother’s biggest rival.
When I’m invited to join my sibling while he competes for the World
Championship, I promise to avoid Noah at all costs.
Twenty-one races. Two drivers who hate each other. And one forbidden
attraction I can’t ignore.
Developing feelings for Noah wasn’t part of my plan.
But then again, neither was anyone finding out.
Turns out the man I was warned about happens to be the one I can’t stay
away from.
Even if he breaks my heart once the season comes to an end.
Can she unlock the secrets of The House of Fever?
1935, Hedoné House, a luxurious sanatorium for the creative elite
dedicated to the groundbreaking treatment of tuberculosis. As the
doctor’s new wife, Agnes Templeton has pledged her life to a house of
fever.
But Hedoné is no ordinary hospital. High society rubs shoulders with
artists, poets and musicians. No expense is spared on the comfort of
the guests, and champagne flows freely. It’s a world away from
everything Agnes knows.
Her husband’s methods are unusual. There are whisperings about past
patients and even a cure. Hedoné’s secrets draw Agnes in, revealing
truths she could never anticipate, and soon she is caught between a
past she is desperate to escape and a future she may forever regret.
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of
Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of
modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often
unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and
sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest
writers of our age.
Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the
sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend,
with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up
heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles’
envy and violence.
As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys’
careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with
convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and
dangerous politician.
Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and
student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an
experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which
transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous
security.
Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin
Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a
retirement home and spends her days listening to her residents' stories.
After bonding with Hélène, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two
women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps
Hélène to relive her memories of love and war, Hélène encourages
Justine to confront the secrets of her own past, and the loss she has
buried deep within.
One day, trouble arrives in the form of a mysterious phone call that
shakes the retirement home to its core and uncovers a shocking
revelation. At once humorous and melancholic, Valérie Perrin's debut
novel is a story of how the past can shape our present, and the scars
of undeclared love.
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