The death of Charlie Parker in a car accident exposes a web of deceit and changes the lives of three women. Lauren discovers that her marriage was not what it seemed.
Mystery fiction
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Author:WOODS, JanetSummary: -
Author:GREGSON, J. MSummary:In an area famous for the Lancashire Witches four centuries earlier, it seems that witchcraft still flourishes. When a body is discovered in a derelict farmhouse, it is partly mummified, a pathetic ruin. Although an identity is...
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Author:BRADBY, TomSummary:Russia, 1917: St Petersburg, the capital of the glittering empire of the Tsars and a city on the brink of revolution. For Sandro Ruzsky, chief investigator of the city police, even this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new...
- Author:Chesterton, G. K.Summary:
"G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of...
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Author:COBEN, HarlanSummary:One slip was all it took to rob Matt Hunter of the life he had so well mapped out. A fight, a friend in trouble, a slippery pavement and the dull crack of someone's skull on the concrete cost him four years in jail and a small...
- Author:FORSYTH, FrederickSummary:
A contemporary story of suspense and murder as the infamous assassin "The jackal" prepares to assassinate General De Gaulle of France.
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Author:BARCLAY, TessaSummary:Laura Wainwright works as a genealogist near Oxford, in partnership with her father Ronald. When Laura receives an enquiry from a Canadian named Neil Crandel, in England to investigate his forebears, her professional curiosity is...
- Author:Braun, Lilian JacksonSummary:
Newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his two cats, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate a suspicious fire which killed a woman in her nineties. The 20th volume in the series, the novel introduces a new character, a swearing parrot.
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Author:Carter, AlanSummary:Meet Cato Kwong - disgraced cop and ex-poster boy for the metropolitan police force. The world is in economic meltdown but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town’s population exploding, it’s...
- Author:COOK, RobinSummary:
A taut novel of a young doctor, Marissa Blumenthal, who uncovers a terrifying plot to deliberately spread disease for profit.
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Author:CHRISTIE, AgathaSummary:A tense drama of jealousy and murder centred on a group of archaeologists. Poirot is called in.
- Author:GOWER, IrisSummary:
At the age of 14, Llinos Savage becomes the owner of a Welsh pottery. Two men in her life complicate things and as she fends off one and tries to cope with the other her life unfolds in a tale of love, tragedy, mysticism and romance....
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Author:Barclay, TessaSummary:When the ex-Queen Nicoletta of Hirtenstein, Gregory's redoubtable grandmother, summons him to Rome, he is powerless to refuse. She is redecorating the villa of an Italian politician, Signor Ardicci. A Russian painting, belonging to...
- Author:MOSS, TaraSummary:
Two and a half years after her ordeal at the hands of the 'Stiletto murderer', Ed Brown, Makedde Vanderwall must face her demons once again as she flies to Sydney for Brown's trial - and faces her one-time lover, the...
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Author:Patricia CornwellSummary:The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta...
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Author:TODD. MarilynSummary:It is 466 BC. Blackmailed into spying for Sparta's hated secret police, High Priestess Iliona has no option but to play along with its ruthless commander, Lysander. But as the purpose of the mission unfolds, Iliona comes to realize...
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Author:ARMSTRONG, VivienSummary:Fay Browne is a middle-aged solicitor living with her family in the small village of Renham. One fateful night, Fay witnesses a woman's apparent suicide in front of a train and becomes deeply involved with the inquest. Did she...
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Author:BARCLAY, TessaSummary:His Serene Highness-otherwise known as plain Gregory Crowne-is on his travels, this time in Avignon to play a classical music concert for the Winter Festival. Much to his delight, girlfriend Liz Blair has found time to join him. But...
