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The Age of Dreaming

Nina Revoyr

The Age of Dreaming

The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn’t just seduce the readerit leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today.”Jerry Stahl, author of I, FattyThis is a riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel.”Mary Yukari WatersBrilliant and original. . . . The carefully restrained voice of its narrator recalls Ishiguro’s The Remains of...

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Nina Revoyr

The Angry Sea

James Deegan

The Angry Sea

‘Brutal and brilliant’ Tom Marcus, author of SOLDIER SPYFormer SAS Sergeant Major John Carr is relaxing on a Spanish beach, when a man with dark eyes attracts his attention. Fixated on a group of young Britons, the man doesn’t notice Carr and soon moves on.Within the hour, the Costa del Sol will be plunged into one of the most audacious and horrifying terrorist attacks Europe has ever seen.In a co-ordinated strike, armed men storm both the beach and a cruise ship anchored further up the coast....

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James Deegan

The Ballad Of Emma O'toole

Elizabeth Lane

The Ballad Of Emma O'toole

After he shoots a man, the stakes for gambler Logan Devereaux have never been higher. On trial for his life, he’s offered a shocking alternative form of restitution… marriage to his victim’s pregnant sweetheart!Beautiful Emma O’Toole has sworn vengeance against him – and when a newspaper man puts her tragic story to song the whole nation waits to see what she’ll do.Their marriage is the riskiest gamble Logan’s ever taken, but he’ll put everything he’s got on the line for a chance at winning...

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Elizabeth Lane

The Bear Pit

Andrew Barlow

The Bear Pit

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Andrew Barlow

The Bunting Quest

Steven Marcuson

The Bunting Quest

'When Bunting drew this in 1581, absolutely no one in the world could have known what the coast of Western Australia looked like…' Nick Lawrance, an antique map dealer, is shocked to find his gallery has been burgled. However, this isn't an ordinary robbery: the thieves have ignored priceless maps and have only taken Bunting's World Map. All of a sudden, Nick is thrown into a four-hundred-year religious mystery where strange people around him will do anything for this map…...

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Steven Marcuson

The Burying Ground

Janet Kellough

The Burying Ground

Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto – the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics – and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed. The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has...

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Janet Kellough

The Cavalier Club

Stanley Goldyn

The Cavalier Club

The year is 1618 and the beginning of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Lieutenant Jack Channing's life is about to be immutably altered by two events. He falls in love with a beautiful countess and witnesses an attempt on the Polish King Sigismund's life. News reaches the court that assassination attempts on Catholic monarchs have occurred elsewhere in Europe and Jack is charged with the responsibility of finding and crushing the perpetrators – murderers that became known as the...

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Stanley Goldyn

The Daughters Of Red Hill Hall

Kathleen McGurl

The Daughters Of Red Hill Hall

‘The Daughters of Red Hill Hall …[has] all the intrigue, mystery, relationship drama and edge of your seat secret reveals any reader could want.’ – Books and BoardiesWhen Gemma discovers a pair of ancient duelling pistols encrusted with rubies in the basement of the local museum, she is immediately intrigued…On a fateful night in 1838 two sisters were found shot in the cellars of Red Hill Hall. And when Gemma begins to delve deeper into their history she begins to realise that the secrets of...

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Kathleen McGurl

The Deadly Hours (Unabridged)

Ксюша Ангел

The Deadly Hours (Unabridged)

From Italy in 1733 to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in London in 1870 and a lethal game of revenge decades later, a watch touches lives with misfortune-until it comes into the hands of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good. This outstanding collaboration between four outstanding novelists follows characters who are irrevocably linked by fate, each one playing a key role in breaking the curse once and for all.

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The Devil in Montmartre - A Mystery...

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The Devil in Montmartre - A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris (Unabridged)

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition, workers discover the mutilated corpse of a popular model and Moulin Rouge Can-Can dancer in a Montmartre sewer. Hysterical rumors swirl that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel, and Inspector Achille Lefebvre enters the Parisian underworld to track down the brutal killer. His suspects are the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, an acrobat at the Circus Fernando named Jojo, and Sir Henry Collingwood, a mysterious English gynecologist and...

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The Espionage Novel MEGAPACK®: 4 Cl...

Chase Allan

The Espionage Novel MEGAPACK®: 4 Classic Novels

The Espionage Novel MEGAPACK® presents 4 classic novels of espionage and adventure. Included are: TIGER MILK, by David Garth The story of a lone-wolf fight against a Nazi undercover ring in the U.S. THE FIVE ARROWS, by Allan Chase High intrigue in South America, with the future of democracy on the continent at stake! THE SHOCKING SECRET, by Holly Roth "An astonishing book: don't miss it!" – Boston Globe. THE...

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Chase Allan

The Extraordinary Adventures of Ars...

Морис Леблан

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar - The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Book 1 (Unabridged)

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Морис Леблан

The Forgotten Sister

Nicola Cornick

The Forgotten Sister

‘A most engaging novel, full of intrigue and atmosphere’ Anne O’Brien ‘A real page-turner; I couldn’t put it down’ Tracy Rees ‘Weaves the past and present together skilfully’ Sarah Morgan ‘Transporting and imaginative’ Woman __________Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Thriller Award 2021One woman’s secret will shape another’s destiny…1560: Amy Robsart is trapped in a loveless marriage to Robert Dudley, a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Surrounded by enemies and with nowhere left to...

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Nicola Cornick

The Furies

Katie Lowe

The Furies

‘An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness’ THE TIMES ‘Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder…a guaranteed good read’ STYLIST ‘Witchcraft, murder, and adolescent passion’ HEATYou’d kill to be one of them.1998. A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on school property, dressed in white and posed on a swing. No known cause of death.Four girls know what happened.They’ve kept their silence.Until now.

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Katie Lowe

The Girl with the Pearl Pin

Lynne Connolly

The Girl with the Pearl Pin

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Lynne Connolly

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Arthur W. Upfield

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

Melbourne during the depression. A seedy, corrupt city. Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out. Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat, exposes graft and blackmail that reaches to the upper echelons of Melbourne society. His life and the...

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Arthur W. Upfield

The Guilty Abroad: The Mark Twain M...

Peter J. Heck

The Guilty Abroad: The Mark Twain Mysteries #4

Mark Twain is in merry old England to see his family. Wentworth Cabot, Twain's assistant, is looking forward to seeing the sights, and hopefully finding some peace and quiet – when not helping his boss with a new lecture series. But peace is the last thing they find when they bump into Slippery Ed, a con man from New Orleans and an acquainatnce of Twain's. Ed convinces Twain and his family to attend a seance. The famed author is skeptical of «spooks.» But when another attendee is...

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Peter J. Heck

The Hanged Man - A Mystery in Fin d...

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The Hanged Man - A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris, Book 2 (Unabridged)

Paris: July 1890. Inspector Achille Lefebvre and his wife Adele are enjoying their stay at a seaside resort-until a body found hanging from a bridge in a public park demands the Inspector's attention. Is it suicide or murder? A twisted trail of evidence draws Inspector Lefebvre into a shadowy underworld of international intrigue, espionage, and terrorism. Time is of the essence; pressure mounts on the Sureté to get results. Achille's chief orders him to work with his former partner,...

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The Hidden Women

Kerry Barrett

The Hidden Women

From the bestselling author of The Girl In The Picture comes a beautiful new timeslip novel.Berkshire, 1944 When Will Bates offers to take ATA pilot Lilian Miles to the dance, he sends her heart into a flutter. But as their relationship progresses, Lilian can’t help but get cold feet. Deep down she’s always known that the secrets locked in her past would weigh heavily on her future happiness… London, 2018 Helena Miles loves nothing more than digging into the back stories of celebrity families,...

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Kerry Barrett

The House of Cain

Arthur W. Upfield

The House of Cain

Upfield's first published novel 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne…

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Arthur W. Upfield

The Innocence of Father Brown (Unab...

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The Innocence of Father Brown (Unabridged)

First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction, Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest, has an uncanny insight to human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in stories such as Sherlock Holmes, the mysteries Father Brown solved were more local murders by small town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down to those in the area of the crime. The cozy mystery style that The Innocence of...

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The Killing Grounds: an explosive a...

Jack Ford

The Killing Grounds: an explosive and gripping thriller for fans of James Patterson

IF THE TRUTH DIES…. HE’LL KILL HER ALL OVER AGAIN. Ex-US Navy-turned-investigator Thomas J. Cooper is tortured by the past. A deadly fight with Somali pirates and a tragic accident at sea have left him struggling with PTSD and an addiction to prescription drugs. When he and his colleague Maddie return to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a plane, what they find is far more sinister and dangerous…

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Jack Ford

The Life and Death of Lord Erroll:...

Errol Trzebinski

The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder

The true story of the life and mysterious murder of the most talked-about and glamorous member of Kenya’ s notorious Happy Valley set.Since Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, was discovered dead in his car with a bullet through his head just outside Nairobi in 1941, speculation has not ceased as to the culprit and motive for his murder. The authorities seemed satisfied with the highly sensationalised trial of the only suspect, Jock Broughton, the cuckolded husband of Erroll’s last lover, Diana. A...

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Errol Trzebinski

The Man Upon the Stair - A Mystery...

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The Man Upon the Stair - A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris, Book 3 (Unabridged)

At the public execution of the anarchist assassin Laurent Moreau, the outgoing Chief Inspector warns his protégé, the newly promoted Lefebvre: «I've heard that some of Moreau's cronies have sworn revenge. You don't want to get killed your first week as chief.» Meanwhile, Lefebvre is charged with investigating the disappearance of the Baron de Livet, a brash millionaire with connections to Russian spies and a history of gambling, womanizing, and fighting in duels. The case is more...

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