On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, & photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered & branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal & heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal & return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. ...

On an ordinary day in 1941, a letter arrives on the doormats of five young women, a letter which will change everything.

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In the Phoenix Munitions Factory, everyone has their secrets...

As WWII rolls across Europe, Kitty boards a ship

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Annie & Terry Eccles seemed to have it all. Until a masked attacker crept into their home, brutally murdering them in their beds.

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The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's number 1 bestselling crime writer. In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, & at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? & whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, & her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time
- against an enormously powerful & cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
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A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. & Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated her closest circles. ...

No crime can stay hidden forever.

When a hurricane hits the Carolinas it uncovers two bodies, sharing uncanny similarities

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In Phillip Noyce's gripping thriller, Denzel Washington is Lincoln Rhyme, a decorated New York City police officer & successful author of crime novels. After a freak accident on the job, Rhyme is left paralyzed from the neck down (except for his index f ...

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper & killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide & puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes & ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left
- his astonishing mind
- & slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose
- around Lincoln Rhyme.


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