Vienna 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg & her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish & just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS invades & disappearances become routine Franz must be concealed. With daring ingenuity Julia conjures a hiding place. In the shadow of oppression a clear conscience is a luxury few can afford & Julia finds she must strike a series of hateful bargains with the new order if she & her husband are to survive. A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s Night Falls on the City is a true lost classic & an unforgettable portrait of wartime. ...

Alisha Barbas dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again with her police career in limbo she receives a message from an old school friend Cate Beaumont who is eight months pregnant & in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper & deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdams red light district & into a murky underworld of sex trafficking slavery & exploitation. A gripping thriller with twists at every turn The Night Ferry is Michael Robothams finest novel yet. ...

On a blustery April day the wife of a doctor discovers that her husband has been having an affair. Moments later driving along a country road she fails to see sixty-one-year-old Ruth Mitchell up ahead riding her bicycle. She hits her killing her instantly & drives away. Horrified by what she has done she turns her attention to Ruths bereaved husband a man as unhinged by grief as she herself is by guilt. & as she insinuates herself into his life he starts to believe that for reasons beyond his understanding his wife has returned to him. ...

A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton & the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired & demoralized the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks & death threats a suspicious suicide burglaries pornographic videos poison-pen letters... In uncertain charge of the investigations is Detective Inspector Jack Frost crumpled slapdash & foul-mouthed as ever. He tries to cope despite inadequate back-up but there is never enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up & the vicious killings go on. So Frost has to cut corners & take risks knowing that his Divisional Commander will throw him to the wolves if anything goes wrong. & for Frost things always go wrong... ...

Gator Fontenot of the Special Forces paranormal squad can't refuse an urgent request to save the elusive Iris Johnson a victim of the same horrific experiments that warped Gator. Now unleashed she's a flame-haired weapon of unimaginable destructive powers a walking time bomb bent on revenge in the sultry bayous of New Orleans & hunted by a shadowy assassin. It's Gator's job to reel Iris in. But can two people haunted by violent betrayals trust the passion that soon ignites between them? Or is one of them just playing another seductive & deadly night game? ...

Anne Wynter's job as governess to three highborn young ladies can be a challenge
- in a single week she finds herself hiding in
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In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall & Washington an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community & the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up & be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall via northern Quebec & the Caribbean to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world. ...

Night Monkey & Day Monkeys worlds are as different as night & day! When they each spend time in each others opposite worlds they learn a lot. In laughing at each others misunderstandings they learn to be the best of friends. The CD

Includes:: a reading of this funny story to an original soundtrack action games to join in with & an original song.

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A lot of people who find something like that a stone's throw from their house would just pull up stakes & take off. Some people had skeletons in their closets; Maggie Fitzgerald had one in her yard. She's retreated from her fast-paced life seeking peace & solitude in the country. So she's horrified when landscaper Cliff Delaney uncovers human bones buried deep beneath her perfectly tended garden. The discovery shatters Maggie's peace entirely. A cold-blooded killer is still on the loose putting Maggie's life in terrible danger
- & her rural idyll is rapidly becoming a nightmare.
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From the bestselling author of Me Before You & two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. Isabel Delancey has always taken her gifted life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly leaving her with a mountain of debt she & her two children are forced to abandon their home & move to a crumbling pile in the country. With the house falling down around them & the last of her savings fast disappearing Isabel turns to her neighbours not knowing that her mere presence there has stirred up long-standing obsessions. As she fights to make her house a home passions & lives collide. Isabel will discover an instinct for survival she never knew she had
- & that a heart can play a new song.. .
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