Philadelphia during Fourth of July weekend is no place for a young lawyer preparing to defend a high-profile trial. Anne Murphy thinks she can escape the mayhem to a quiet beach house until she sees her photograph in the paper...
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Author:THORNE, NicolaSummary:When Jocasta Oaks arrives in the Yorkshire village of Coppitts Green she is excited at taking up her new job as assistant schoolteacher - and at being reunited with her fiance, Peter Ryder. But Peter has disappeared without explanation...
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Author:ALLBEURY, TedSummary:Could the Soviet Union really get their own man elected president of the United States of America? Originally published in 1981 as 'The twentieth day of January'.
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Author:LA PLANTE, LyndaSummary:Suspicion and fear surround the disappearance of a movie star's daughter, and the race to claim the reward for finding her spirals into a deadly trail of voodoo in the French quarter of New Orleans. Policewoman Lorraine Page is on the...
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Author:FOLLETT, KenSummary:A man wakes up terrified. He does not know what has happened to scare him, but he feels as if he has been through a dreadful experience.
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Author:LLEWELLYN, SamSummary:When Camille, the sister of poet and bird artist, George Devis, is murdered whilst working for an aid project in Ethiopia, George is forced to get involved. Things get very deadly when, whilst sailing across the Atlantic, someone tries...
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Author:YORKE, MargaretSummary:Susan Trent is in her sixties. She ought to be well satisfied with her lot. Instead she lives in terror of her semi-employed, abusive, middle-aged son.
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At an airfield in Angola, two men board an aircraft; once airborne they kill the pilot and fly to parts unknown.
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Author:ROBERTS, NoraSummary:Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe needs to unwind after a grueling book tour. Visiting her sister whom she hasn't seen in months, seems the perfect solution. Grace returns home one night to find her sister dead, strangled...
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Author:ATWOOD, MargaretSummary:Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?)...
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A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night...
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Author:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSummary:Kay Scarpetta's work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end. Fearing that she is about to be fired by the governor, and hounded in the media for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy...
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Former journalist Bill Tyrrell charters his yacht to a charitable organisation which takes juveniles out of prison and out onto the sea. When a youth is killed and Tyrrell himself is attacked he begins to smell a rat and starts his own...
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The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett...
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Author:CUSSLER, CliveSummary:In the waning days of the Second World War, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure - a different kind of Kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the west coast of the United States, their cargo a...
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Author:CORNWELL, Patricia DanielsSummary:While Lucy Farinelli goes undercover in Miami to bring down a notorious criminal cartel, Dr Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino discover a body in a cargo ship recently arrived at Virginia's Deep Water Terminal in Richmond.
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Author:BROWN, SandraSummary:Alexandra Gaither is a state prosecutor who has the authority to reopen an unsolved homicide case. Twenty-five years ago Alex's mother was murdered and no one was ever tried for the crime. Now armed with new evidence that could...
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"Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely."—Kiersten White, New York Times -bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayer From...
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Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger, for safekeeping. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.
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Author:FORSYTH, FrederickSummary:A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered in the former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge.
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