One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti & Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair & he sees a small foot
- together he & Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But inconceivably no one has reported a missing child nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity her family & for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children
- be they innocent or guilty. From the canals & palazzi of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainland Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice & entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

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Cas Lowood is no ordinary ghost hunter
- he's in love with a dead girl. Her name is Anna Korlov. Anna Dressed in Blood. The girl
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Just a few months ago Tom Boyd was a multi-million-selling author living in LA in love with a world-famous pianist. But after a very public break-up hes shut himself away suffering from total writers block with only drink & drugs for company. One night a beautiful naked stranger appears in Toms house. She claims to be Billie a character from his novels who has fallen into the real world because of a printers error in his latest book. Crazy as her story sounds; Tom comes to see that this must be the real Billie. & she wants to strike a deal with him: if he writes his next novel she can go back to the world of fiction; in return she will help him win back his beloved Aurore. What does he have to lose? ...

Why has a secret from 1914 caused a century of heartache? Troubled by recent loss Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland & the arms of her loving family. & it is here on a cliff edge that she first meets a young girl Aurora who will profoundly change her life. Mysteriously drawn to Aurora Grania discovers that the histories of their families are strangely & deeply entwined... From a bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York from devotion to a foundling child to forgotten memories of a lost brother the Ryans & the Lisles past & present have been entangled for a century. Ultimately it will be Aurora whose intuition & remarkable spirit help break the spell & unlock the chains of the past. Haunting uplifting & deeply moving Auroras story tells of the triumph of hope over loss. ...

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy decent but boring husb&. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun the dank & gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her. But then Michael begins to change. It starts when he thinks he sees in a picture the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes life becomes so much more fun & Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last. But who
- or what
- is changing Michael.. .?

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Jane Logan is a stranger to Berlin & she finds the city alive & echoing with the ghosts of its turbulent past. At six months pregnant shes instructed by her partner Petra to rest & enjoy her new life in Germany. But while Petra is out at work Jane begins to feel uneasy in their chic apartment. Screams reverberate through the walls lights flicker in the derelict building that looms over the yard a shadow passes on the stairs... Jane meets a neighbours daughter a girl whose life she tries to mend but her involvement only further isolates her. Alone & haunted Jane fears the worst...but the worst is yet to come. Louise Welsh the acclaimed author of The Cutting Room delivers another masterful suspense novel. The Girl on the Stairs is a powerful psychological thriller packed with twists & turns to keep you reading well into the night. Read it or be left in the dark. ...

Jane & Petra have been together for six years & after deciding to have a child they move to Petras hometown Berlin. But things do not quite go according to plan. Jane at six months pregnant finds herself increasingly isolated & preoccupied with the monuments & reminders of the Holocaust which echo around the city
- imagining the horrors that happened in the spaces around her. She becomes uneasy in the apartment & conceives a dread of the derelict backhouse across the courtyard. She also begins to suspect their neighbour Alban Mann of sexually assaulting his daughter & places a phone call to the police which holds more significance than she can ever have known.. .
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What happens when a robot designed to be a boys ideal companion develops a will of her own? This is a compulsively readable novel from a hot new talent in YA. Hello David. My name is Rose. Its a pleasure to meet you. We are now entering minute two of our friendship. According to my Intimacy Clock a handshake is now appropriate. David & Charlie are opposites. David has a million friends online & off. Charlie is a soulful outsider off the grid completely. But neither feels close to anybody. When Davids parents present him with a hot Companion bot to encourage healthy bonds & treat dissociative disorder he cant get enough of luscious red-headed Rose
- & he cant get it soon. Companions come with strict intimacy protocols & whenever he tries anything David gets an electric shock. Severed from the boy she was built to love Rose turns to Charlie who finds he can open up knowing Rose isnt real. With Charlies help the ideal companion is about to become her own best friend. In a stunning & hilarious debut John Cusick takes rollicking aim at internet culture & our craving for meaningful connection in an uber-connected world. A strong boy read that girls will love too: sexy hilarious high-tech & full of pop-culture nods to everything from Blade Runner to Buffy.
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An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena & an artists servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights & battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young ma ...

Wilhelmina Silvers world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse her monkey & her best friend every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold & Will is sent away to boarding school in England the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions & hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls. Where can a girl run to in London? & will she have the courage to survive? ...