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Once Upon A Crime...Nancy Hunter and her grandmother Jane Hunter run the Dedley Endings Bookshop, selling crime, thriller and mystery books, in a small, quiet Cotswold village where nothing ever happens...That is, until the wealthy and reclusive Roth...
Three severed hands. No clues. A race against time. Three embalmed hands are discovered in a disused Victorian house. Is it a gangland ritual? The work of a cult? Or just a prank played by Medical Students? And what happened to the bodies? Meanwhile ...
John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense. Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He spe...
Roll out the red carpet. The royal train is due in half an hour and there's not a minute to be wasted. It's 1915 and Ada, Jessie and Beatrice Saward live in a small Norfolk village with their parents. Their father, Harry, is the station master at Wol...
This psychological thriller takes you inside the mind of a fascinating character who lives a quiet life--with disturbing secrets hidden in memory lapses. M works in publishing and enjoys watching people. M also suffers from panic attacks and odd memory...
"In the years after World War II, the Senter family built an Eden-like life on their isolated dairy farm in rural Maine. When tragedy strikes, the close-knit family is shattered. Each must fight the isolation their own grief and guilt as they attempt...
The daughter of a German mother, and black French soldier, Ingrid has been ostracised all of her life. The rise of Hitler and his barbaric racial cleansing policies has intensified the hatred and prejudice to a frightening new level. When Ingrid is i...
"FANTASY ROMANCE A fairy tale prince and princess get a second chance at getting what they truly desire in this dazzling tale as they embark on an enchanted road trip and encounter a delightful cast of magical characters. Imelda and Ambrose have forgotten...
Snuggle up in your favourite armchair and take a trip across the Irish sea for comfort food, cosy cottage nights and a heartwarming romance... Talented lawyer Hannah Campbell wants a change in her workaholic Manchester life - so she books herself a place...
Calabria, Italy, 1936 In a remote farming village nestled in the mountains that descend into the sparkling Ionian Sea, young and spirited Giulia Tallariti longs for something more. While she loves her home and her lively family, she would much rather...
On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to be his granddaughter. She needs help and has nowhere else to go. He welcomes her in, and so begins a mystery set...
Peter 'The Plum' Lum is an ex-footy star, living with his son and girlfriend in Cronulla. It's a pretty cruisey life until he learns that he has developed a brain disorder from the thousand-odd head knocks he took during his career. According to his....
They've finally found their forever home. So why is it tearing them apart? A fresh start. Ellie knows she has found her dream home - number six Moss Lane. The place she and Tom can settle down, raise their new baby and start again. A dark secret. But...
Upstanding principal Jay Atherton dreads the next four weeks. As punishment for challenging his bosses, he's been lumped with the inglorious task of assessing Acacia Haven's tiny school with its, dare he say, 'hippie' curriculum. With the lowest test...
In the months leading up to Independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with British Viceroy Dickie Mountbatten over the fate of the country. In Lahore, Sepoy Malik returns home from the Great War hoping...
Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant texts - collected in one work, Mouthpieces. Each text depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told...
"Nina and Conrad best thought they'd discovered their dream home. But on the day they move in, a body is found - the victim attacked and killed in the woods. As police start to question the residents, they discover that they all have their own secrets....
I'm greeted by the strangest sight. A small dark-haired boy is standing there. It's like he's a human parcel, delivered to my front door. 'My name is Luke,' he says. When Johnny meets Lauren in a bar in Santa Cruz, there's an instant connection. On an...
A swarm of enemy aircraft. A hopeless task. A brilliant commander. Kubaiyah, an RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of ...
Top three lies about mama's boys:1. That we don't know what we want. That one is straight up BS. I know exactly what I want--to win this bet with my cousins by any means necessary even if it means finding the worst possible date in all of Harbor City...
HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? The news doesn't strike cleanly, like a guillotine's blade. Nothing so merciful. This news is a slovenly traveller, dragging its feet, gradually revealing its horrors. And it announces itself first with violence - the urgent ...
DI Silas Hart investigates a murder in a crop circle in Wiltshire, in the new high-concept thriller from J.S. Monroe.
England, 1444. Three women challenge the course of history... King Henry VI's grip on the crown hangs by a thread as the Wars of the Roses starts to tear England apart. And from the ashes of war, the House of Paston begins its rise to power. Led by t...
From Joyce Carol Oates come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present. A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from...
Palliative care doctor Tess Carter is no starry-eyed heroine. After all, if your dad left without a backward glance and you found your last boyfriend in bed with another guy, you wouldn't believe in romance either. And the voices in Tess's head - you...
"If you play games with a killer... you can't afford to lose. Looking for a subject for her book about evil, Lydia Tune travels to the infamous Mortem Asylum in Richmond, Virginia. Her target is Jason Devere, a death row serial killer notorious for his...
"The Games are the biggest underground event in the world, followed by millions online. New recruits must leave behind their twenty-first century lives and vie for dominance in a gruelling battle to the death armed only with ancient weapons - and their...
"Paige might bake wedding cakes for a living but that doesn't mean she's dreaming about her own perfect day. Far from it. Trusting people is hard after she was badly let down by her family and boyfriend just when she needed them most. And to make things...
Sometimes you have to fall apart so that you can start again... After five years stuck in the wrong marriage, 33-year-old Emma is finally free. Her husband has moved out, her son Freddie is making friends, and her parents are finally trying to stop.....
Colonel Nitesh Sharma is a highly respected commanding officer of the 37 Int & FS Unit. Only Sandhya, his wife, knows that he is compulsively abusive husband. The violence escalates when she begins to question Nitesh's past marriages, specifically the...
Till death do us part . . . Lucy has dreamt of her wedding day for as long as she can remember. And now the day is almost here. Her nearest and dearest are gathered on an idyllic Greek island and she just knows it's going to be perfect. It has to be....
Can you see a killer before it's too late? On the first day of her new job, D.I. Eva Harris is called to the scene of a brutal murder at the heart of Surrey society. A shocking crime by a meticulous killer - who escaped with the victim's eyes. With the...
The little village of Weddington is fast becoming THE place to get married. With its stately home, castle and two churches it has something for everyone, and now, famous after appearing in huge romcom movie hit A Little In Love, it's hosting a monthly...
The last thing Jack Baxi expected when a detective rang his doorbell in the middle of the night was that he'd be tortured and left for dead, with a young woman he's never met before. Now, running for their lives, Jack and Aisha frantically try to discover...
Twenty-one-year-old Alyssa Florescu wakes up at her impoverished home in Eastern Europe on New Year's Day in 1995 and decides to change her life. She's not sure what she should do, but she does know she can no longer live in her country with its tire...
From the outside, Eleanor and Edward Hamilton are the epitome of a perfect marriage but they're harbouring a shameful secret that threatens to fracture their entire world. London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and adoring...
YOU DON'T TRUST HER . . . Robert Waterman, head of GCHQ, is trained to neutralise threats before they become dangerous. BUT YOU NEED HER . . . Sara Eden knows things that not even his most powerful computer systems do. And she can predict events that...
The story of a girl named Elizabeth, who at the age of twelve wakes up bruised and bloodied with no memory of herself or the troubled woman who claims to be her mother. Nine years later, while watching a documentary on New Orleans, Elizabeth gets flashes...
Beatrice found love at Port Willow - now she's helping others. Since arriving in the Scottish Highlands village of Port Willow six months ago while nursing a broken heart, Beatrice Halliday has turned her life around. Now she's running The Princess and...
When recently divorced Chloe Canton is gifted her grandmother's house in Bermuda in her will, it seems a perfect time for a fresh start. Her chance at paradise comes with unprofitable horse stables, a neighbor who is putting pressure on her to sell up...
Brodie is the hitman for the head of a feared crime dynasty. He does what he's told, which is why he's agreed to take his boss's young nephew with him on his next job. But as Brodie finds his target, he gets a call that changes everything - and he is...
Silas Ford is dead, but his mission to save Heaven is just beginning. Fresh off his battle with the demon Malphas, Silas arrives in the afterlife to find two warring angel factions blazing a trail of death and destruction that leads straight to the throne...
I couldn't protect you then. Twelve years ago, a devastating hit and run nearly killed Zenyia Washington, taking away the thing she cared about most in the world - her ability to play music. After working hard to start over, she's beginning a new chapter...
"There is a mystery to solve in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood. It starts with the arrival of two secretive newcomers, and ends with a tragic death. Roderick Tanner QC has assigned law students Charlotte and Femi to the case. Someone has already been...
"When a hysterical mother reports her baby's sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel's gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think... Complications in the m...
"In an exclusive London restaurant, Julia Lovat is given a gift that will change her life. The antique book of Jacobean embroidery delights her, but when she looks more closely, she discovers within its faded pages the extraordinary diary of a young ...
"A fun and festive sexy Christmas romance, originally launched as an Audible Original in November 2020. Nick Winters and Noel Carter have known each other their whole lives, but when Nick moves back home just in time for the holidays, Noel is there to...
Alexandra "Alex" Donavan overcame her troubled upbringing and is now a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit. When authorities in Kansas and Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains traveling across the country-- all killed...
Investigative reporter Christy Madaris doesn't want to complicate her life with romance. She made that mistake once when she believed Alex Maxwell's promise to marry her. True, Alex made that promise when Christy was just a teenager. But she believed...
"When an international security threat emerges in Paris, alpha werewolf Harley Grant and the Special Threat Assessment Team lead the investigation. Harley is hesitant to use her wolf abilities, but she's sure she smells the work of a supernatural suspect....
"A hostile fleet. A planet killer. And one shot to make it right. In this gripping new military science-fiction novel, a battle-tested infantry squad pursues an inhuman enemy into the vacuum of space. Maseo Kaytu's squad is yanked from a much-deserved...
Corruption, greed, obsession, and a host of other human traits lead to the death of Heaven's young mother.
"She's all he desired but was unable to claim...until now... Sierra Cavanaugh has worked her whole life to become the first female elite warrior in Grey Wolf history. With her nomination finally put forward, all she needs is the pack council's approval....
When a Highland laird decides to marry, nothing can stand in his way...not even the bride. No one ever accused Kerr MacAlister of being a nice man. Everyone would agree, however, that when the laird makes a promise, nothing can stop him. Which is why...
"Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an orphan's self-reliance and wants nothing to do with war. But as the realities of Nazi occupa...
-- -- For the first time, the noble detective who's repeatedly saved Sadie's backside finds himself on the wrong end of a homicide investigation. Sadie is determined to prove that Dean Petrovich was framed for his ex-wife's murder. But when her inves...
"When a bad fall leaves Jack Matheson with a broken leg, he is forced to ask for help. That the help comes in the form of Simon, the most beautiful man he's ever seen, is a complicated, glorious surprise."--Publisher.
Like the heroic land that is its subject, James Michener's POLAND teems with vivid events and unforgettble characters. In the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries, three Polish families live out their destinies and the drama of a nation--in the...
The Gossip Guru has some shocking news: devout Wallace Hamilton, head of rival newspaper the Davis Landing Dispatch, is not Jeremy Hamilton's father! Word is, his wife was already pregnant when they wed and now that Jeremy has learned the truth, he's...
Present day: Emma Lovett has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens. Given the chance to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith, she begins to uncover secrets...
Crime scene cleaner Sadie Novak has been blessed with the gift of second sight. But with ghosts of murder victims always popping up when she's trying to work, her blessing sometimes seems more like a curse. With business slow, her mortgage payment looming,...
'Captivating' Heat Magazine 'Beautiful... heartwarming' Zara Stoneley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain Everyone's favourite bus goes on a summer adventure full of sunshine and the promise of romance... Charlie has a new helper on her...
On a mission to deliver a baby to a nearby foundling home, Mark Wallace and Johan Brooks encounter two women who capture their attention. And when a handful of urchin children from the area go missing, a pair of Horsemen are exactly what the women ne...
A gentleman by day... Phineas Betcham, Viscount Fenhurst is one of the country's most eligible bachelors...which - to the heartbreak of each season's new debutantes - is the way he intends to keep it. Because the broodingly handsome Viscount has vowed...
Uh-oh. Nicole Beauman had overcome a lot of obstacles in her life, and she sure as heck had never backed down from a challenge. But her boss, Zane Rankin, presented an entirely new sort of dilemma. Sexy and charming, he was like chocolate--sinfully good,...
Dive into the world of beasts and barbarians in this prequel to the exhilarating Gathering of Dragons series by Milla Vane. A warrior princess must tame The Beast of Blackmoor to earn a place among her people. When she arrives in Blackmoor, however, she...
With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at...
In this sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth, only to discover that it is about to be blown up ... again. What could a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade...
"Torn between the white and Comanche worlds of her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from the townspeople of Wolf's Landing, Oregon. Bo one understands her elusive spirit-until Jake Rand comes to town to act as foreman of her family's ranch....
Some heartbreaks hit harder than others. For Shaye Harper, the last one was so bad she swore off men for good. Wishing Tree, Washington, was supposed to be a pit stop on the road to a fresh start, but Shaye is swiftly drawn in by the quirky small tow...
The biggest fashion disaster in comics is back! Fashion blogger Lottie Person just wants to live up to her flawless online persona--but why is real life so much harder? "Will appeal to longtime O'MALLEY fans and offer a challenging but entertaining p...
Sometimes you just have to jump.The second book in The Sacred Dark series, a lush fantasy romance by acclaimed author May Peterson.I don't remember you...Reborn as an immortal with miraculous healing powers, Ari remembers nothing of his past life. His...
A serial killer is ravaging the American expat community in Paris, his kills reminiscent of Jack the Ripper. For FBI special agent Adele Sharp, it's a mad race against time to enter his mind and save the next victim--until she uncovers a secret darker...
-- New York Times"SWAT is hot hot HOT!"--Kerrelyn Sparks, -- Wolf Trouble"Hot, action-packed, and sexy as hell."--Sara Humphreys, award-winning author, for --
As owner of the most scandalous club in London, the last thing the notorious Marquess of Roth wants is a wife. Keeping up his false reputation as a rake brings in the clients with the deepest pockets--money he needs to fund a noble cause. Even though...
When pediatric heart surgeon Sebastian Grant meets Leah Montgomery, his fast-spinning world comes to a sudden stop. And when Leah receives surprising news while assembling a family tree, he helps her comb through old hospital records to learn more. But...
"The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines, they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find...
"Bookstore owner Tricia Miles must solve a mystery that hits tragically close to home in this latest thrilling entry in Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown mystery series. Tricia has just received a second marriage proposal within fif...
"Dark and delicious."--KERRELYN SPARKS, New York Times bestselling author, for Race the Darkness Seeing is believing ... Thomas Brown can't see color, but he can see people's true souls. His abilities allow him to work with criminal investigators and...
When Eva de Courtney kidnaps Godric Fleming, her only plan is to stop the irritating earl from persecuting her beloved brother. But once she has the intriguing rogue in the confines of her carriage, she longs to taste the passion she senses simmering...
Suki is captured by the Fire Nation and brought to the Boiling Rock, a grim prison in the middle of a dormant volcano. Separated from Team Avatar and her Kyoshi Warrior sisters, she decides to build her own community among other prisoners. But it's going...
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci num...
A wallflower's time to shine... The Earl of Shalford needs to marry into money to save his estate. Wealthy and beautiful Henrietta Buxted should be the perfect candidate. So why does his eye keep wandering to her quiet cousin, Charlotte Wyncroft? Cha...
Charlene's parents are in town for Christmas, and her mother is driving her up a tree. Her bed-and-breakfast's resident ghost, Jack, isn't fond of her either'and he's showing it with some haunting high jinks. But when Charlene takes her mom and dad out...
Cantankerous spinster Ivy Beasley finds a silver lining in her golden years as an amateur sleuth in her small English village of Barrington, teaming up with mysterious newcomer Gus and her own cousin to solve the murder of Gus's elderly neighbor.
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