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A Good Way to Go
Peter Helton
Unconventional Detective Inspector Liam McLusky is plunged into a major murder investigation in this gritty police procedural series.
A body is found in a Bristol canal. Chained, weighted down, it has all the hallmarks of a premeditated, ritualistic killing. Then the second body is discovered. Bound and gagged like the first - but there are differences. If DI McLusky could only work out what connects the victims, he would be one step closer to catching the killer.
First Impressions
Margaret Thornton
From one of the genre's best-loved names, a delightful tale of second chances and unexpected romance.
A recent widow in her forties, shy Jane Redfern has plucked up the courage to go on holiday by herself. Embarking on a coach trip to Germany, the last thing she anticipates is to fall in love. But she finds herself drawn to fellow passenger Dave Falconer, and romance blooms. But is Jane ready for this? And there's something Dave hasn't told her...
The Lost and the Blind
Declan Burke
This gripping Irish thriller is an intriguing new departure for comic noir writer Declan Burke.
Why would elderly Gerhard Uxkull concoct a tale of Nazi atrocity on the remote island of Delphi, off the coast of Donegal? And why now, just when Irish-American billionaire Shay Govern has tendered for a prospecting licence for gold in the area? When a body is discovered drowned, journalist Tom Noone must find out the truth if he is to survive.
The Dark Side of the Road
Simon Green
Introducing Ishmael Jones - a detective with a difference - in this compelling murder mystery.
Ishmael Jones can't afford to be noticed. He's employed to search out secrets and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic Colonel, to join him and his family for Christmas, Ishmael arrives at the grand but isolated manor in the midst of a blizzard to find that the Colonel has disappeared...
Maggie
Marie Maxwell
Maggie's life is almost perfect - until the day when everything falls apart.
Maggie Wheaton's perfect world falls apart just days after her 16th birthday when her parents are killed in an accident. Forced to go and live in Southend with her new guardian, Ruby Riordan, she sets out on a deliberate path of self-destruction. Will Ruby be able to save her from herself, or is it all too little too late?
Mother's Milk
Charles Atkins
Forensic psychiatrist Barrett Conyors is back.
Barrett Conyors finds the discovery of the bodies of two heroin-addicted teens particularly hard to accept. Barrett's convinced that chief suspect Jerod, a homeless schizophrenic, didn't do it but she's the only one, apart from Detective Ed Hobbs, who is. But even Hobbs can't stop Barrett from following a complex trail of drugs and death that places her in the cross hairs of a killer...
Hit and Run
Sandra Balzo
AnnaLise's philandering father's attempt to 'do right' by his many heirs goes deadly wrong.
Journalist AnnaLise Griggs' birth father, the legendary womanizer Dickens Hart, claims he wants to 'do right' by any other offspring, so throws a Thanksgiving party for his former lovers with potential heirs. But not everyone is in a celebratory mood, and when a body is discovered, AnnaLise is left with the task of identifying the killer.
Dancing in the Dark
Susan Moody
A woman's search for her identity leads her to confront a series of disturbing truths in this enthralling psychological mystery.
Abandoned at the age of eleven by her beautiful, capricious mother, Theodora Cairns, twenty years on and with a painful divorce behind her, is still struggling to get over her childhood abandonment. With the urging of her new love interest, Fergus Costello, and a chance discovery, Theo becomes determined to find her mother and demand answers to the questions she should have asked years ago. Her search for answers leads her to Vermont, USA - but will she be able to handle the disturbing truth?
Edge
Nick Oldham
The latest gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Christie.
When a gruesome turn of fate spins Henry Christie into a collision course with Charlie Wilder, newly released from prison, he finds himself pitted against one of the most brutal and dangerous individuals he has met in over thirty years as a cop. The only way to beat Wilder is by meeting him head-on and taking him right to the very edge.
Fair and Tender Ladies
Chris Nickson
Richard Nottingham confronts an old enemy in the latest intriguing historical mystery.
1734. When a young country lad requests the Constable's help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually end up as prostitutes - or worse. The following day, the young man is found dead, his throat slit.
The evening before his death, the victim had been seen in deep conversation with career criminal Tom Finer in the Bell Inn. Could there be a connection to his murder? Why has Finer returned to Leeds after a seventeen-year absence? And what really happened to the young man's sister?
Then a second body is discovered floating in the River Aire - and Nottingham finds himself plunged into a murder investigation where nothing is as it seems.
