Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. ...

When amateur sleuth detective Kate Shackleton receives a dawn telephone call from her cousin James, his news soon snaps Kate into wakefulness. The India Office seek her on-the-spot help in finding a Maharajah, last seen on the Bolton Abbey estate. He has with him a hugely valuable diamond. Investigative successes & good family connections put Kate in the highly trusted category. Perceived as 'establishment', Kate feels an outsider in her sympathies. One thing she is sure of: her own skills & insights. Qualities that she is sure will help her unravel the latest disappearance on that fateful summer's day... ...

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time...

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal

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October 1854. As crowds of passengers rush to make the departure of the London to Brighton Express, a man watches from the shadows nearby... Chaos, fatalities & unbelievable destruction are the scene soon after when the train derails just outside the Balcombe Tunnel. Could it simply be a case of driver error? Detective Inspector Colbeck thinks not. But digging deep to discover the intended target of the accident takes time, something Colbeck doesn't have as the killer prepares to strike again. ...

Books Cosy Crime The first novel in the sensational The Sequin Mysteries series, from world-renowned dancer & Strictly head judge Shirley Ballas.  Behind the sequins & the sparkles, the competition is about to turn deadly... When a promising young dancer collapses during the opening tango of a major competition, Lily Richmond, dance legend, teacher & one-time world champion, is convinced that murder is afoot. There’s only one person who can help Lily solve the mystery: her former student, now turned private detective, Susie Cooper. But Susie vowed she’d never return to the ballroom... As the competition gets fiercer & the bodies pile up, Susie will be forced to go undercover in Blackpool & come face to face with a man she thought she’d left behind. Can Lily & Susie unravel the rumours from the rumbas & expose the murderer’s identity before they strike again? Sex, lies & ballroom dancing. Murder on the Dance Floor is a backstage pass to a world where the most ambitious will stop at nothing to win.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008558000 •†Author: Shirley Ballas & Sheila Mc Clure  •†Publisher:  HQ •†Format:†  Hardback •†Pages:† 432 •†Dimensions:†15.9 x 3.7 x 24 cm ...

Lambing season always brings the unexpected… But no one expected murder. Jude Gray never thought she’d find herself widowed & running a working farm full-time, but here she is, living in the small Malvern village her husband Adam spent most of his life in. After a particularly gruelling lambing season, she is looking forward to some time off, but there’s no rest for the wicked, especially when she finds the body of one of Adam’s oldest friends on her farm. Unimpressed with the local constabulary’s efforts, Jude starts an investigation of her own. But as the body count rises, danger creeps ever closer to Malvern Farm. A killer is on the prowl. & all that stands in their way is one woman – & her dog. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836564645 • Author: Kate Wells • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 344 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.98 cm ...

It is 1941. While the 'war of chaos' rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder & the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the 'horrors of secretarial work' don't appeal to Molly Lefebure, she's intrigued to find out exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door. Capable & curious, ' Miss Molly' quickly becomes indispensible to Dr Simpson as he meticulously pursues the truth. Accompanying him from sombre morgues to London's most gruesome crime scenes, Molly observes & assists as he uncovers the dark secrets that all murder victims keep. With a sharp sense of humour & a rebellious spirit, Molly tells her own remarkable true story here with warmth & wit, painting a vivid portrait of wartime London. ...

Books Mystery Books A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. It’s September 1907 & George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Posing as a passenger, Dillman is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line to keep an eye out for petty crimes. But after some uneventful days aboard, the ship’s blueprints are stolen & then a body is found.  As Dillman works to get to the bottom of the crimes, he makes an unusual friend, first-class passenger Genevieve Masefield, & the two uncover secrets aboard the ship that prove explosive.  Staring on the maiden voyage of the Lusitania, a ship that was sunk in 1915 by a German U-Boat off the coast of Irel&, killing 1, 198 passengers & crew.  Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9780749027490 •†Author: Edward Marston •†Publisher:†Allison & Busby •†Format:†Paperback  •†Pages:†288 •†Dimensions:†19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm   ...

Chef Charlie Hunter’s arrival in the beautiful Chilterns is the fulfilment of a long-held dream: to open her own restaurant in an idyllic countryside location.  The Old Forge sits on the village green (complete with duck pond & flint-faced houses) & seems just the place for the high-quality cooking she wants to be known for. But instead of rural peace & a chance to lick her wounds, Charlie finds something ugly stirring under the chocolate box perfection. When a prominent local builder is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Charlie the outsider becomes a suspect. & the only way to clear her name seems to be to find out who the real killer is. Luckily she has allies: her student waitress, a kitchen porter making up in muscles what he lacks in brain & a briskly efficient clairvoyant. Using all the craft Charlie’s learned in kitchens – discipline, timing, preparation & grim determination – she will be as relentless in her quest to bring a murderer to justice as she is in... ...

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. 

The luxurious train is surprisingly

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