Joseph O' Loughlin appears to have the perfect life
- a beautiful wife, a loving daughter & a successful career as a clinical
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Joseph O' Loughlin has the perfect life, a successful career as a clinical psychologist, & a beautiful wife & loving daughter. However, nothing can be taken for granted & soon he finds out that his perfect existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. When a strange case of a young woman is found with multiple self inflicted stab wounds, Joe is called upon to find out why. The body is all too familiar & turns out to be a former colleague & when a patient of Joe's alludes to his won involvement, Joe finds himself caught in a complex web of deceit. ...

It is midnight on 30th June 1860 & all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is surely one of their number
- the house was bolted from the inside. As Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day, arrives at Road to track down the killer, the murder provokes national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes
- scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness & loathing. This true story has all the hallmarks of a classic gripping murder mystery. A body, a detective, a country house steeped in secrets & a whole family of suspects
- it is the original Victorian whodunit.


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A sweeping story of love that stretches across the years.

The war has ended & Rita Fairweather is waiting for George

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Lottie Lane is all alone in the world...

As a chambermaid at one of London’s busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery

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Dr Andrew Marlow has a perfectly ordered life, full of devotion to his work & the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned artist Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery & becomes his patient. As Oliver refuses to speak, Marlow's only clue is the beautiful, haunted woman Oliver paints obsessively, day after day. Who is she, & what strange hold does she have over this tormented genius? Desperate to help, Marlow embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver, & to a dark story at the heart of French Impressionism ...

The coach started to move off. I felt frightened. All these weeks, looking forward to it, & now I didnt want to go. Please, Mum, let me go home. She was running alongside, waving her hanky & crying... Hed nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange, swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London. With a proper family. With a dad. But now it was all going wrong. ...

Details: When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson
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Details: Pythias is her father's daughter, right down to her intelligent, slate-grey eyes. Aristotle cannot resist a
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The Life is a saga about a criminal family with two psychopathic brothers with contrasting personalities who build up a criminal empire in London's East End. There are plenty of twists & turns in the plot as the next generation join the family business. It needs careful reading as the plot is complex in places with intrigues & betrayals. There is plenty of violence for those who like that. ...