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Westleham Village 1947.It's the Westleham village show and with the
war finally over, everyone is looking forward to a pleasant day.
But newcomer, Martha Miller doesn't share the excitement. Because
since her husband Stan left for work one day and never returned,
Martha has been treated as somewhat of an outsider in Westleham.
The village gossip is that Martha must be to blame.... Martha hopes
she can win her fellow villagers over with her delicious homemade
plum gin. But as glasses of the tangy tipple are quaffed, disaster
strikes! Chairwoman of the village show, Alice Warren, slumps to
the ground - poisoned! As fingers of suspicion again point Martha's
way, she's determined to prove her innocence and find the real
culprit. And she's ably helped by the new vicar, Luke Walker. But
who would kill Alice and why? And will Luke and Martha discover who
is behind the poisoning before it's too late? Find out in a brand
new Martha Miller mystery from bestselling author Catherine Coles.
Praise for Catherine Coles: 'An utterly charming 1940's mystery.
Definitely a new series addiction!' Bestselling author Debbie
Young. 'Pure mystery buff entertainment' Library Bookwatch Perfect
for fans of Lee Strauss and Beth Byers!
Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the
MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many
passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits his
publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the
new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign
for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's
imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle
Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for
Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book
published, that he puts his own life in danger. His wife Emma,
chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the
IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should
resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause
Emma's downfall. Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the
Crown, and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip
to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's
political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old
adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at
the election. But who wins this time? In London, Harry and Emma's
son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's
Bank in London, and has proposed to the beautiful young American,
Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only
in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at
nothing to remove his rival. Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton
Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date.
With all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of
the world's most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the
Clifton and the Barrington families continues.
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Ashes in the Snow
(Paperback)
Oriana Ramunno; Translated by Katherine Gregor
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A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the
Christmas of 1943. A young Jewish prisoner... Auschwitz, 1943. It's
snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele
Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body
of an SS officer. A detective with everything to prove... Hugo
Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the
renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret - he is suffering from a
degenerative disease. The only way for him to survive is to give
his support to the Reich and hide his condition. A confrontation
with pure evil... In Auschwitz, Hugo comes face to face not only
with a complex murder, but with a truth - that of the Final
Solution. And he is forced to decide what is most important to him
- and who, if anyone, he should try to save...
'Combines historical fact with the fictional narrative, and offers
a cast rich with multidimensional characters. Readers will be
riveted' - Publishers Weekly In June 1940, the Channel Islands
becomes the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by Hitler's
forces. Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to
Jersey two years earlier to escape the Anschluss, finds herself
once more entrapped by the Nazis, this time with no escape. The
Girl From the Channel Islands follows her struggle to survive the
Occupation and avoid deportation to the camps. Despite her racial
status, Hedy finds work with the German authorities and embarks on
acts of resistance. Most remarkable of all, she falls in love with
a German lieutenant - a relationship on which her life soon comes
to depend.
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