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‘I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.’
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable
loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of
Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put
her past firmly behind her.
Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an
attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the
baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.
But Sam has gone missing.
So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a
child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might
be coming to an end.
But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and
birth certificate to prove it.
So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?
One child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.
An Egyptologist investigates a death at the British Museum in a
"charming" Victorian mystery by the New York Times-bestselling
author of The Painted Queen (The Denver Post). Back in London after
an archaeological dig, adventurous sleuth Amelia Peabody--"rather
like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into
one"--discovers that a night watchman at the museum has perished in
the shadow of a mummy case (The Washington Post Book World). There
are murmurings about an ancient curse, but a skeptical Amelia is
determined to find an all-too-human killer. Soon, she's balancing
family demands, including the troubles of her precocious son,
Ramses (aka Walter), with not just one unsolved crime, but two . .
. From a recipient of multiple honors including the Mystery Writers
of America's Grand Master Award, this murder mystery set in
Victorian-era England is a witty, rollicking, and "deeply
satisfying" romp (Entertainment Weekly) in a "jewel of a series"
(The New York Times Book Review).
Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses’ heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen travels to the scene, the investigators soon uncover evidence of a chain of crimes in the community – disappearances, arson and mutilations – all culminating in the reveal of something deadly lurking in the ground itself.
In the dark days that follow, the town slips into panic and paranoia. Everything is not as it seems. Anyone could be a suspect. And as Cooper finds herself unable to leave town, Alec is stalked by an unseen threat. The two investigators race to uncover the truth behind these frightening and insidious mysteries – no matter the cost.
Sixteen Horses is the debut literary thriller from an extraordinary talent, Greg Buchanan. A story of enduring guilt, trauma and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind . . .
Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an
eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to
change online dating forever.
No-one expects it to end in tragedy.
Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation: a dinner party. A
chance to see the old gang again.
But as soon as he arrives, something doesn’t seem right.
There’s an unexpected guest. The hosts are clearly keeping a secret.
And on the way in, Will is sure he heard crying.
Everyone has something to hide about what really happened that summer.
But only one of them is willing to kill to find the truth…
’n Reeksmoordenaar jag by stormweer, en Rooi en Kassie moet hom vastrek. Die Hartedief kom met moord weg, en dan is Kassie se volle aandag ook nie eintlik by die saak nie, want hy is smoorverlief op ’n aanvallige mede-seëlversamelaar. Vlerksleep is nie vir sissies nie. Om sake vir hom en Rooi te vererger word hul baas daarvan verdink dat sy hul ondersoek in die wiele ry, en Kassie moet haar onskuld bewys. Intussen word Kaapse vroue vermoor wanneer daar onweer broei.
East Berlin 1968: a city recovering from the horrors of WWII and where
the state police, the Stasi, cultivate a climate of paranoia and fear.
In a place where your closest friend or family member could be a state
informer, the threat of violence is ever present and no one knows this
more than damaged school teacher Sebastian Metzger. But something evil
and ancient is stalking Metzger from the shadows of war–torn
buildings–something which threatens the city and perhaps even the
future of humanity itself. Tiny Acts of Violence is a stunning horror
graphic novel from Martin Stiff, writer and illustrator of the
critically acclaimed and award-nominated The Absence. “It’s an erudite
indictment of social conditioning - - it goes beyond The Lives of
Others in its critique of the Stasi.” Pat Mills (Charley’s War,
Spacewarp) “Has the feel of a long-unearthed Hitchcock… A highly
effective thriller” Rob Williams (Old Haunts, Judge Dredd) “The
atmosphere of menace and state control-induced paranoia drops from it’s
pages.” Simon Furman (Transformers, To The Death) “Gorgeously moody,
graphically striking and brilliantly cinematic” Andrew Cartmel (The
Vinyl Detective, Doctor Who)
*** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD *** ***THE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK
CLUB PICK*** *** THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** *** SOON TO
BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER ***
_______________________________________ IT WAS THE LAST THING HE
TOLD ME: PROTECT HER Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to
smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows
exactly who Owen needs her to protect - his teenage daughter,
Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants
absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As her desperate
calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the
police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband
isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to
discovering Owen's true identity, and why he disappeared. Together
they set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting
together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realise that their
lives will never be the same again...
When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold.
Then, when another body is found dead on a lonely stretch of road near Hadrian’s Wall and their only suspect has an airtight alibi, the team are faced with another crime without a perpetrator.
With the number of unexplained deaths in the area increasing rapidly and only a series of coincidences to work from, Ryan and his team must find the invisible link between them to crack the case―before it’s too late.
Can Ryan solve his most dangerous case yet?
Brother Cadfael discovers a murder amid the wreckage of Shrewsbury
Castle in this mystery series featuring "a colorful and authentic
medieval background" (Publishers Weekly). In the summer of 1138,
war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael
from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions,
deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls,
Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to
the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother
Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery:
one extra victim that has been strangled, not hanged. This
ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the
killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many
seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. He vows to find
the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boy's clothing, a
missing treasure, and a single broken flower . . . the tiny bit of
evidence that Cadfael believes can expose a murderer's black heart.
Eris, an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out.
Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa. A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful
husband disappeared twenty years ago.
Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own
isolation.
But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in
London, a visitor comes calling.
And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .
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