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'A masterclass in crime fiction' Jane E James The BRAND NEW thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood!
When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially-motivated crime.
As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, all within a close area. An idea suggested by pathologist...
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Potpourri contains a wealth of literary tales exhibiting the author's range and depth, from horror to science fiction and from steampunk to paranormal. Most of the contents have appeared in small collections worldwide.
Often crossing the boundaries of traditional genres, E. W. Farnsworth's works are highly allusive, full of droll humor, sometimes savagely satirical and always hewing closely to distressing shared memories while remaining fictions.
"The...
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Bestselling Camilla Isley returns with this gorgeously funny enemies-to-lovers rom com, perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Lynn Painter and Jo Watson.
She's a self-made fitness sensation. He's a billionaire mogul. They're sworn enemies and rivals... aren't they?
Blake Avery knows all about hard work. She's gone from making videos in her teenage bedroom to founding a booming fitness business and opening a state-of-the-art Manhattan gym. Now she's on...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture bretonnes.
La collection Miniatures s'était aventurée une fois, une seule, dans l'une des treize régions de France (à l'époque vingt-deux) avec le volume consacré à la Corse. C'était en 2008. Avec ce volume consacré à la Bretagne et à ses auteurs, nous renouvelons donc l'expérience éditoriale. À savoir l'approche par la littérature, non pas dans ce cas d'un pays ou d'une langue, mais...
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Ness has almost resigned herself to being single forever, when she catches sight of the most gorgeous man she's ever seen on the train to work. But just as she plucks up the courage to speak to him - he steps off the train and disappears into the crowds, without realising he's accidentally dropped his phone! It's her 'glass slipper' moment, she's sure of it, she just needs to track him down - all the way to the gorgeous seaside village of Pearlholme,...
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L'ambition donne du panache, mais point trop n'en faut lorsque l'on est une femme en Afrique...
« L'ambition est un sentiment extrêmement noble. Ce qui la pervertit, c'est l'obsession » disait à juste titre le sage. Ainsi, dans ce recueil aux histoires cocasses, teintées de bonne humeur et parfois de drame, l'auteur met en scène des femmes africaines de tous rangs et couches sociales ayant en commun une ambition qui malheureusement, jamais...
327) About That Night
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Sometimes it only takes one night to change everything...
Elizabeth Place might have been jilted on her wedding day one year ago, but at least she's still got her brilliant job producing one of the biggest shows on TV!
But when larger-than-life TV host, Ricky Clough, dies live on air, her life is sent spinning out of control. And with foul play suspected, the spotlight is turned firmly on his colleagues - especially Hutch, the man desperate for...
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Brand NEW from the bestselling author of The Village Shop For Lonely Hearts.
After escaping her parents' unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever.
But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be found … quickly.
So, when her oldest friend Pete Kennedy returns from working abroad with a plan to save the Inn, Belle should...
329) Capitulation
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Surviving a kidnapping is not for the faint of heart, as Darby Shaw knows all too well. Two months after being rescued, she's starting to get things back to a new normal. She's making changes, subtle though they may be, doing what she can to move on.Her latest case is just the thing Darby needs to keep her mind off the recent past: Justin Kendrick, paraplegic, is dead. Being poisoned, strangled, and stabbed through the heart seems like overkill. Together...
330) Rose Red
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Hair as black as night, skin as white as bone, lips as red as blood…Just because the princess wakes up doesn't mean she's saved.After Sylvaine and the Sleeping Kingdom awaken from their enchantments, the Hunter Brotherhood struggles to help the cursed population adjust to life in the modern world.But when Sylvaine turns up in New York City with no explanation, then goes missing, the search leads Olivia, Griffin, and companions old and new deeper...
331) The Captain
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Telnarian histories volume 2
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From the savage death pits of the Ortung Vandals, to the murderous intrigues of the imbecile Emperor's court, to the perfumed cages of the luscious willing slaves, the giant Otto is carving a legend across the stars. When this gladiator and chieftain of the Wolfung worlds seeks to form a frontier legion of space barbarians, the nobles dare not refuse him; they have only the courage to try to murder him. But can even an empire's might stop such a man?...
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Vicky Turnbull has never regretted giving up her career for family life in the suburbs. And apart from being outstandingly good at paintball, no one would ever know that in a past life she was an undercover spy and has been trained to kill a man with her bare hands. Not even her husband, and certainly not the other mums at the school gate.
But beneath the school runs and bake sales, Vicky had never quite said goodbye to the past. So, when a newcomer...
333) Emergence
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What if you could revive the murdered?Officer Darby Shaw is on the verge of making detective. The one caveat? Homicide is her last assignment pick. When she inadvertently brings a murder victim back to life, the least of her worries is staying out of the murder squad.Per the federal government, superhumans must be tracked. Darby's the first ever to revive the dead and they're doubly-interested in why. With every member of the alphabet soup wanting...
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seven stories involving stormsHellstorm on HelstromYou just can't do some people a favor!Storm Front - Clint FaradayA severe storm, a drug runner, a body – but not the one expected. What was going on?Hate - from Enter Merlin Tyana.Merlin is a mysterious character who appears in a storm to solve or thwart a murder.Hellstorm - Nick StorieHurricanes are bad enough. You don't need a bunch of millionaire nutcases getting murdered in a public shelterFinal...
335) Death at the Abbey
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Even the most glamorous stately homes hide secrets and lies from the past...
When Flora Maguire receives an alarming telegram informing her of her father's tragic death in a riding accident, she races back from London to her childhood home.
But when Flora and her new husband, Bunny, get to Cleeve Abbey – where she was once Governess to Eddy, Viscount Trent, and her father was butler to Earl Trent – it's all is not well.
Flora's intention was...
336) Emma Ever After
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Emma Woodhouse knows the world loves nothing more than a celebrity romance. And, as a rising star at Mega! Management, she match-makes some of the biggest names in the business. Who cares if it's all for show? For Emma, fauxmance beats the real thing any day! But Emma has a huge task ahead. She needs to find fake girlfriends for every member of Breach of the Peace, the world's hottest new boy band. Rich, talented heart-throbs, they should have their...
337) The Austrian Bride
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Austria, 1938
After years of hardship, Ella is full of hope for a better future for Austrians, and when Hitler marches into Linz, she can't help but become swept up in the euphoria of her boyfriend, Max.
But she soon realises her mistake. When she witnesses a woman being shot in the street and a childhood friend's Jewish department store is closed down, she knows she must do something.
It's a dangerous time to be a resistor, especially when her...
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Preorder the next instalment in Georgina Troy's Sunflower Cliffs series
Set sail for the breathtaking island of Jersey in this gorgeous, romantic series. Perfect for fans of Jessica Redland and Phillipa Ashley.
When shoe designer Paige Bingham is jilted she decides to enjoy her honeymoon-for-one in Sorrento. What she doesn't expect is to meet a mysterious entrepreneur, Sebastian Fielding, when she gets there. He helps ease the sting of rejection...
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An unmissable psychological thriller from bestselling author J.A. Baker.
When Phoebe and her disabled husband, Martyn, move into a new house in a quiet village, they plan to lead a quiet existence, to keep themselves to themselves. It's safer that way.
But their new neighbour Anna is bored of spending her days alone. She seeks friendship with Phoebe – even though she knows there is something strange about the new couple. What is Phoebe hiding...
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This tell-all book by M.A.C. Farrant, whom Publishers Weekly has celebrated as "a brave iconoclast" and whose work the Globe & Mail has said "bristles with moral fury at the absurdities of our accelerated age and a great dose of laugh-out-loud humour," offers her readers nothing less than The Strange Truth About Us. A three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations, and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark,...
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