Thea Osborne & her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in the late Greta Simmonds' house which is currently between ownership. But when a body is discovered in a nearby field Thea finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation once again. After befriending undertaker Drew Slocombe she soon finds she's aligned herself with the police's only suspect. Believing him to be innocent Thea works together with Drew to clear his name although it slowly dawns on them that in a village simmering with secrets a means & a motive could be laid at anybody's door. ...

This is a murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne. Verity Browne & Lord Edward Corinth are attending the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Benyon killed a few months before when the Hindenburg airship burst into flames as it docked in New Jersey. As the congregation begins to disperse after the service Edward hears Miss Pitt-Messanger cry for help. Her father is slumped in his seat stabbed to death with an ancient Assyrian dagger. Edward has no wish to investigate the murder but Verity gets herself invited to Swifts Hill the ultra-modern house in Kent belonging to the millionaire Sir Simon Castlewood. His wife Virginia is one of Veritys school friends & she is looking after Maud Pitt-Messanger who is still grieving for her father. Verity quickly discovers that the old man was a selfish bully who had made his daughters life a misery & prevented her from marrying the man she loved. By coincidence Mr Churchill then asks Edward to investigate the Castlewood Foundation which Sir Simon has set up to fund medical research among other worthy projects. Churchill has received information that Sir Simons protege the eminent surgeon Dominic Montillo is using the Foundation to fund his own research into racial types
- the so-called science of eugenics. Then Maud Pitt-Messanger is herself stabbed to death with a dagger from Sir Simons archaeological museum & Edward & Verity join forces to find her killer
- but Veritys distrust of Winston Churchill & her growing attraction to the young German aristocrat Adam von Trott drives a wedge between them which brings them both unhappiness & endangers the outcome of the investigation.

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For fans of the contemporary urban fantasy series of Charlaine Harris Patricia Briggs Chloe Neill & Karen Chance Kalayna Price brings us Grave Memory" the third novel in the " Alex Craft" series about a kick-ass grave witch who can communicate with the dead. When the dead need to talk Alex Craft is always ready to listen... As a Grave Witch Alex solves murders by raising the dead
- an ability that comes at a cost & after her last few cases that cost is compounding. But her magic isnt the only thing causing havoc in her life. While shes always been on friendly terms with Death himself things have recently become a whole lot more close & personal. Then theres her sometime partner agent Falin Andrews who is under the glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off her best friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie. But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a string of suicides occur in Nekros City & Alex is hired to investigate. The shades have no memory of the days leading up to their brutal endings so despite the very public apparent suicides this is murder. But what kind of magic can overcome the human will to survive[unk] & why do the shades lack the memory of their deaths? Searching for the answer might mean Alex wont have a life to remember at all..." Grave Memory" is the devilishly brilliant sequel to " Grave Witch" & " Grave Dance" & not to be missed. Praise for Kalayna Price: " Yum. A rare treat intriguing & original. Dont miss this one". (" Patricia Briggs"). " Fascinating magic a delicious heart-throb & a fresh inventive world". (Chloe Neill). Kalayna Price is a writer a painter & a hula hoop dancer residing in the Carolinas USA. She draws ideas from the world around her her studies into ancient mythologies & her readings of classic folklore. Her previous books in the " Alex Craft" series " Grave Witch" & " Grave Dance" are also published by Penguin."
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Young beautiful & deadly. Trained as an assassin by the god of Death Ismae is sent to the court of Brittany where she finds herself under prepared
- not only for the games of intrigue & treason but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Deaths vengeance upon a target who against her will has stolen her heart? This is a dangerous romance full of intrigue poison & ultimately finding ones way.
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All is not well in the kingdom of Waldberg.. . The orphan Hans is desperate to escape his master the grave robber Knobbe the Bent. The young countess Angela von Schwanenberg must rescue her parents from the mad archduke. But when fate flings them together they find themselves on a daring quest hurtling through haunted forests racing down mountains in a coffin & sneaking along underground passageways with a travelling circus. & at every turn the archdukes Necromancer is there to thwart their progress. Will Angela save her parents? Will Hans escape his past & find out who he truly is? Or will the evil Necromancer capture them first? ...

When she was 15 Harper Connelly was struck by a bolt of lightning which left her with a spiderweb of red over her body headaches & episodes of weakness. Sometimes her right hand shakes. & she can find dead people. Its taken a while but at last Harpers pretty happy with her life: shes making a living using her unique talent to help people & shes got a lover
- her stepbrother Tolliver. That creeps some people out but though they grew up together & got each other through the real bad times
- their parents drug-use the abuse the disappearance of Harpers elder sister Cameron
- theyre not blood relatives. Then Tollivers dad arrives on the scene seeking forgiveness for the sins of their youth & the police get a tip-off that after all these years Camerons been spotted in a mall. With all this going on Harper realises life is getting a little complicated but she doesnt expect those complications to include Tolliver getting shot or watching a cop die taking a bullet for her. Harper can find dead people but now its clear someone wants her dead.. .


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In the searing heat of Guatemala Dr Temperance Brennan excavates the remains of a two-year-old child from a site that is said to contain the bodies of twenty-three women & children. Shaken by the discovery Tempe tries to harden herself against the horrors that she finds. & then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City... When a skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a rundown hotel only someone with Tempes expertise can deduce who the victim was & how they died. But her path is blocked at every turn. It would seem that some people would prefer that Guatemalas disappeared stay buried. & others want the missing girls kept the same way... ...

The award-winning & Number One bestselling Val Mc Dermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history heritage & heinous crimes. A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life & death. & it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District & heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian mutinous First Mate on the Bounty had secretly returned to England? Scholar Jane Gresham wants to find out. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth a friend of Christian's may have sheltered the fugitive & turned his tale into an epic poem
- which has since disappeared. But as she follows each lead death is hard on her heels. The centuries-old mystery is putting lives at risk. & it isn't just the truth that is waiting to be discovered but a bounty worth millions.. .
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In St. Peter Port Harbour on the Channel Island of Guernsey Detective Inspector Ed Moretti & his partner Detective Sergeant Liz Falla are called in to investigate the shooting death of arms dealer Bernard Masterson on the Just Desserts his luxury yacht. Why are Masterson his glamorous partner in crime Adele Letourneau & his thuggish bodyguard here on the island? & how are an ex-Folies Bergere dancer a former espionage agent & a wealthy sax-playing financier involved -- or are they? With the knowledge that theres nowhere to hide in a world now as small as his island & not knowing whom to trust in a mystery involving money & international intrigue Moretti goes to London in search of answers returning to Guernsey for a violent showdown on the Just Desserts. ...

Just because Grave Witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead doesnt mean she has to like what they have to say... As a private investigator & consultant for the police Alex has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though shes on good terms with Death himself nothing has prepared her for her latest case. Alex is investigating a high-profile murder when shes attacked by the ghost she is raising
- which should be impossible. Then someone makes a serious attempt on her life thwarted only by Deaths intervention. You know youre having a bad day when Death is saving your life... To solve this case Alex will have to team up with tough homicide detective Falin Andrews. Andrews seems to be hiding something although its certainly not his dislike of Alex. Despite all that Alex is going to need his help to navigate the tangled webs of real-world & paranormal politics & to track down a killer wielding a magic so malevolent it may cost Alex not just her life but also her soul...
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