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Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies – Catherine Mack
Snarky and fun, Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum) meets Benjamin Stevenson (Everyone in my family has killed someone). Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating Read more
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The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle – Nick Louth
One of those books you will slam shut with a satisfying thud. Solid foundation for a new series. Fifty years. Two deaths. One detective to solve an impossible case… DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in the quiet Devon town of Ilfracombe. The female occupant has been found dead, her body impaled with Read more
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The Beacon – P A Thomas
Son of a media mogul! Meet Australia’s answer to Myron Bolitar. Twisty and fun, with serious series potential Jack Harris, the disgraced son of Australia’s most powerful business tycoon, has just been exiled to Byron Bay as a junior journalist at his father’s smallest regional newspaper, The Beacon. His arrival coincides with the disappearance of Read more
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His Last Wife – Ruhi Choudhary
A marvellous masterpiece of misdirection, with an excellent twist and a half added for good measure. “Do not go in there, Anna. Never go in there.” The words ring in my head as I pick the lock to the only room in the house that the man I love tells me I’m not allowed to Read more
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The Baby – A J McDine
A stark depiction of alcoholism, controlling behaviour, the correlation of such dependencies, and how they manifest in reality. Unsettling but ultimately gripping. The harsh light streams into the living room. On the worn rug sits an out-of-place wooden drawer and swaddled inside, with rosy cheeks and large round eyes, a baby looks up at me. Read more
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Three Drowned Girls – Emily Shiner
A small community, a massive crime, undertaken in a shockingly unbelievable believable way. When Freya Sinclair was a little girl, she had no idea what her parents were hiding in the basement of her childhood home… After five years away from her hometown of Fawn Lake, Detective Freya Sinclair isn’t expecting a warm welcome from the people Read more
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Grave Expectations – Alice Bell
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)* for the new generation. Fab Fun. *Non Gen X-ers Google It Claire and Sophie aren’t your typical murder investigators . . . Claire Hendricks is a hapless 30-something true-crime fan working as a freelance medium. When she is Invited to an old university friend’s country pile to provide entertainment for a Read more
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The Anniversary – Cole Baxter
The devastating fallout of marrying a man with a messiah complex – Absolutely Bonkers (but good). I gaze across the candlelit table into the eyes of the man I love. It’s our anniversary dinner, a celebration of our marriage, of how far we’ve come. But within hours our romantic date has ended in murder… When Read more
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The Gathering – C J Tudor
Tense and claustrophobic, in this small Alaskan town it’s not just the vampyrs who are out for blood! WELCOME TO DEADHART. ALASKA. POPULATION 673. LIVING. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and the blood drained from his body. The brutality of the murder of chillingly echoes a killing Read more
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Noise Floor – Andrew Cartmel
With drug highs, crazy drives and relationship wrangles, the Fab Four are back and leaving no tone unturned in this latest offbeat mystery The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more. The Read more
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