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  • Wicked Game - Matt Johnson - 3D book cover
    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    Wicked Game – Matt Johnson

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    Engrossing plotlines, treacherous games, and a tormented police officer… the perfect ingredients for an exciting, gripping, and captivating thriller: Wicked Game! Robert Finlay #1 The Book 2001. Age is catching up with Robert Finlay, a police officer on the Royalty Protection team based in London. He’s looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life with his new family. But fate has other plans. Finlay’s deeply traumatic, carefully concealed past is about to return to haunt him. A policeman is killed by a bomb blast, and a second is gunned down in his own driveway. Both of the murdered men were former Army colleagues from Finlay’s own…

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  • Behind Her Back - Jane Lythell - 3D book cover
    Contemporary,  Fiction,  Women's Fiction

    Behind Her Back – Jane Lythell

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    Tales from the TV frontline! StoryWorld #2 Introduction When Liz, the television producer of the UK’s favourite morning show, returns from her holiday, things have changed at StoryWorld – and not for the best. Secrets, manipulations, and hidden alliances are dividing the once so strong team into two camps. What will happen to tv-star Fizzy and will Lesley, the new host, step aside? What is newcomer Lori’s role in it all and how much do her marketing tactics influence the show? With a scam builder, a teenage daughter who has a habit of blaming her mother for everything, an over-indulgent ex and.. a new love interest, Liz’s life is pretty…

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  • Letters to the Pianist - S.D. Mayes - 3D book cover
    Fiction,  Historical

    Letters to the Pianist – S.D. Mayes

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    Letters to the Pianist is S.D. Mayes fascinating, gripping, emotive, and harrowing tale of a family torn apart in wartime London – of a plucky daughter on a quest to keep her family together, to find her father – of a man without memory, who discovers his talent and falls into a bed of roses. Roses have ugly thorns though and in this case, carry a gruesome legacy… Introduction London, 1941. Despite the danger, Joseph Goldberg is adamant their family, with their three children, Ruth, Hannah, and Gabi, stays together. One fateful night, the family home is bombed. Life changes dramatically for the children – without parents, they have to live with an aunt and uncle. Unluckily…

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    ‘Savage LIes’ is a brutal, gritty, dark and twisted thriller featuring John Savage, former SAS, used to kill people but devastated when the doom of death hits his family. His life is about to turn another angle and somehow, it is connected to a devious but rather dumb criminal transporting body parts through London… Introduction John Savage Thriller #1 Minchie has found a way to trade in his dull job as a debt collector for being part of a dark and criminal organisation. So better not mess up this important assignment, right? In the back of the (stolen) van, there are body parts wrapped in plastic for him to dispose…

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  • Judge Walden Back in Session - Peter Murphy - Book Cover
    Humour

    Judge Walden Back in Session – Peter Murphy

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    Judge Charles Walden resides at Bermondsey Crown Court and in this second book in the Walden of Bermondsey series, he presents us with five cases – and so much more! From his copious and many dinners with his spouse, invariably mentioned as ‘the Reverent Mrs Walden’, to the inner court dealings and the ‘Grey Smoothies’ in this humorous, sometimes sarcastic, but always informative as to the depths of human nature, insightful and delicious book! Introduction Walden of Bermondsey #2 Bermondsey, the London-based town, has its own court with Judge Charles Walden in residence. With our beloved judge, what can go wrong? Apparently, quite a number of things. The five cases…

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    Historical,  Non-Fiction

    The Million Dollar Duchesses – Julie Ferry

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    The Million Dollar Duchesses offers the reader fascinating insights into the lives of American heiresses, eager to marry into the British aristocracy. With names we all recognise as Churchill, Cunard, Astor, and Vanderbilt, this book shows us how these marriages were arranged and how, in the end, only a few of these marriages were happy, based upon love and respect.  Introduction  Set in 1895, this is a description of the life of the New York society matron, Marietta Stevens, and her daughter, Minnie Paget, accomplished society hostesses very successful in bringing American heiresses in contact with eligible British bachelors – eligible in the sense that above anything, a title was…

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    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    The Kiplock Affair – Malcolm J. Roscow

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    With ‘The Kiplock Affair’ Malcolm Roscow gives us a fascinating, yet deprecating and shocking insight into the world of business, where money and power can make and break you – as Bill Smith is about to find out when the rich American businessman Gerry Kiplock proposes him the deal of his life… Introduction  We find ourselves in a Florida hotel room with Angela and Gerry as they are about to perform the age-old actions of lust. How did they end up there in that Florida hotel? To understand, we go back in time, eight months to be precise. To that fateful day,  when Bill Smith, living in the vicinity of…

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    Interviews & Guest Posts

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  • You're Next - DS Scarlett Macey #2 - Michael Fowler - Book Cover
    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

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    Scarlett Macey is devastated when ‘the Lycra rapist’ walks out of court a free man. She is determined to put him back behind bars but he has other plans… Introduction  Just before James Green, the vicious criminal also known as the ‘Lycra rapist’ will be tried in court, he is acquitted because the main witness has committed suicide rather than to be confronted with her attacker and testify in court. Detective Sergeant Scarlett Macey is shattered – she had put so much time and effort in getting her suspect, putting him behind bars with the help of an undercover operation, involving a female detective as a target for the rapist.…

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    Romance

    Zenka – Alison Brodie

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    Combine a London mobster with a feisty Hungarian pole-dancer, a soft-hearted male nurse and many more crazy, likeable, over-the-top characters et voilà you have ZENKA: a quirky, dark, and romantic comedy.  Introduction What have a London mobster by the name of Jack Murray, an exotic Hungarian pole-dancer named Zenka, a soft-hearted male nurse Nicholas, Trevor, a frustrated accountant and a couple of tough guys in common? And there is more… For instance, Jack never knew he had a son but sort of adopted a psychopath, Lloyd, a sadistic low life whose Jaguar is now owned by Nicholas! A script, heading for disaster. Zenka does everything she can to direct Jack…

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