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The Chianti Flask
(Paperback)
Marie Belloc Lowndes; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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'Literally out-Christies Agatha' - Janice Hallett, bestselling
author of The Appeal Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a
stunning novel which reimagines the unexplained eleven-day
disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world. In
1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the
truth of her disappearance. I'm no Hercule Poirot. I'm her
husband's mistress. Agatha Christie's world is one of glamorous
society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame.
Nan O'Dea's world is something very different. Her attempts to
escape a tough London upbringing during the Great War led to a life
in Ireland marred by a hidden tragedy. After fighting her way back
to England, she's set her sights on Agatha. Because Agatha Christie
has something Nan wants. And it's not just her husband. Despite
their differences, the two women will become the most unlikely of
allies. And during the mysterious eleven days that Agatha goes
missing, they will unravel a dark secret that only Nan holds the
key to . . . *A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK* *Instant New York
Times bestseller* 'Storytelling at its very finest' - My Weekly
'Scintillating' - Daily Mail 'Romance, enigma and wit in
bucketloads' - Elizabeth Macneal, bestselling author of The Doll
Factory 'A genuine marvel' - Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of
Firefly Lane 'Ingenious' - AJ Pearce, bestselling author of Dear
Mrs Bird
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Jumping Jenny
(Paperback)
Anthony Berkeley; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror - the most inventive story you'll read this year.
'Utterly original and unique. I couldn't get it out of my head for days afterwards' Sophie Hannah
It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.
But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.
The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...
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Widow of Bath
(Paperback)
Margot Bennett; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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Soon to be a new HBO Series from J.J. Abrams, Misha Green and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)
Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.
A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.
In the third instalment in the life of Detective William Warwick,
following on from Hidden in Plain Sight, international bestseller
Jeffrey Archer once again displays his mastery at the art of
storytelling. Detective Inspector William Warwick is tasked with a
dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose corruption
at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team focuses on
Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer living an
extravagant lifestyle. But Summers develops a personal relationship
with a WPC on William's team and the investigation hangs in the
balance. As his undercover officers draw the threads together,
William realizes that the corruption may go far higher than his
initial assessment, and that more of his colleagues than he thought
possible might be willing to turn a blind eye . . . 'If there was a
Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win' - Daily Telegraph
The incredible and thrilling first novel in a brand new series by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.
William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s arts and antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light.
While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and his brilliant lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William. Meanwhile, Miles Faulkner’s wife, Christina, befriends William, but whose side is she really on?
Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s number one Sunday Times bestselling The Clifton Chronicles: telling the story of the life of William Warwick – as a family man and a detective who will battle throughout his career against a powerful criminal nemesis. Through twists, triumph and tragedy, this series will show that William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer’s most enduring legacies.
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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...
'Pretty much everything I want in an historical thriller - an
absolutely terrific read' - Philip Gwynne Jones 'A great insight
into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the
seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' - Abir
Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a
report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern
quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and
harbouring dark secrets. His case becomes far more complicated when
a man's body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than
two dozen times. Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests
one of the nuns must be the killer. Meanwhile, Constable Carlo
Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an
officer of the law missing since winter. The dead man had many
enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city's most
feared criminal court? As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth,
identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of
them could ever have imagined . . . The Darkest Sin is an
atmospheric locked-room thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in
Renaissance Florence and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.
The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot-legendary star of
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the
Nile-returns to solve a fiendish new mystery. Hercule Poirot is
travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive
Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him to
prove that his fiancee, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his
brother, Frank. But there is a strange condition attached to this
request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there. The
coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off,
insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered.
Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being
harmed, Poirot's curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later
confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached...
Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be
clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if
Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save
her from the gallows?
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