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How To Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This time it just happens to be a Last Will & Testament. Great story, entertainingly executed FRANCES ALWAYS SAID SHE’D BE MURDERED…SHE WAS RIGHT. In 1965, when Frances Adams was seventeen, a fortune teller told her that one day she’d be murdered. Thus began a lifetime of trying Read more
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The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E. – Claire Parkin
Taking FRENEMIES to a whole new level. Toxicity and humour abound. Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparable since they were little, they’ve shared everything; unable to be without each other, even after the most vicious of fights. Now fate has left them living together in a North Read more
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The Best Revenge – Gerald Seymour
A meticulously woven web of spies… Even the most ardent of espionage fans will love it. On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People’s Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath a young Chinese woman Read more
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I Let Her In – Maria Frankland
When you’ve finished screaming at Cassie for being too timid, too trusting and ultimately naive, you’ll enjoy unravelling all the secrets. I tread quietly up the plush carpeted stairs. There’s no-one here to see me as Cassie and Jon’s bedroom door creaks gently open. I’ve watched them from afar for so long. Now I’m finally Read more
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The Excitements – C J Wray
Nonagenarians with attitude, an agenda and a very specific set of skills. Delightfully entertaining Revenge is a dish best served old… Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain’s most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their nineties, Josephine and Penny are in demand, popping up at commemorative events all over the country. Despite their age, they’re Read more
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Jericho’s Dead – William Hussey
(spoilers) he’s not, he’s actually discovering how the recently deceased came to be that way, while simultaneously failing to detect what is wrong with his relationship. Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him. That is until a vicious serial killer Read more
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Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect – Benjamin Stevenson
Murder on the Aussie Express cast with folk who figuratively murder people for money Yes, I read it on a train, because who wouldn’t? SIX WRITERS. FIVE DETECTIVES. FOUR DAYS. THREE WEAPONS. TWO MURDERS. ONE TRAIN . . . When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the Read more
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Eliza Mace – Sarah Burton & Jem Poster
Pass the hammer… Eliza is intent on shattering a glass ceiling that in 1870 is at the same height as a coffee table. Ultimate Uppityness! A twisty Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted detective Eliza Mace In the first of a thrilling new Victorian detective series, Eliza Mace, on the cusp of adulthood, is battling for her Read more
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Sometimes People Die – Simon Stephenson
Sometimes funny, sometimes dark, sometimes emotive, completely addictive The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff Read more
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