What do you do when you think your ex-lover has murdered his wife? Thats the question Ursula Gretton an archeologist working on the Saxon burial ground on Bamford Hill puts to Meredith Mitchell in the hope that Merediths friendship with Cotswold Chief Inspector Markby might cast some light on her dilemma. But Markby is dismissive of Ursulas suspicions concerning the disappearance of Dan Woollards wife
- until a body is found in the rubbish dump near the site Woollard & Ursula have been excavating. Woollards team of archeologists arent the only ones to disturb the peace of the windswept hill. Much to the fury of a taciturn pair of local landowners a band of New Age travellers has set up camp on the hill only to disappear the day the bodys discovered. Markby is faced with a tangle of conflicting clues suspects & possible witnesses
- amongst the latter Meredith Mitchell
- & when a second body is found it is clear the web is growing evern more complex & destructive.


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True love friendship & luck
- a warm-hearted novel about where fate can lead you From naughty children to rebellious teenagers
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If you had a second chance at first love.. .would you take it? Its been three years since Adams love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it.. .and three years since Mia walked out of Adams life forever. Now living on opposite coasts Mia is Julliards rising star & Adam is LA tabloid fodder thanks to his new rock star status & celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself chance brings the couple together again for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mias home Adam & Mia revisit the past & open their hearts to the future
- & each other. Told from Adams point of view in the spare powerful prose that defined If I Stay Where She Went" explores the devastation of grief the promise of new hope & the flame of rekindled romance."
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Detective Catherine Mc Leod was always taught that in Glasgow they dont do whodunit. They do score-settling vendettas & petty revenge. & however she looks at it the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley means shes going to be busy. Meanwhile aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly
- & incompetently
- working for her uncle Jims private investigation business. When Jim goes missing Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real & her only lead points to a professional assassin who has been dead for twenty years. Soon Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption & secrets that leaves her running for her life.

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Detective Catherine Mc Leod was always taught that in Glasgow they dont do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do cant-miss-whodunit. Its a lesson that has served her well but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent of further deaths to come. Elsewhere in the city aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly
- & incompetently
- earning a crust working for her uncle Jims private investigation business. When Jim goes missing Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real & her only lead points to Glen Fallan a gangland enforcer & professional assassin whose reputation is rendered only slightly less terrifying by having been dead for twenty years. Cautiously tracing an accomplished killers footsteps Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption & decades-hidden secrets that could tear apart an entire police force
- if she can stay alive long enough to tell the tale.


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A fabulous drama of the Campion family struggling to stay together as World War Two rages over Liverpool Lou Campion has joined the WAAFs against the wishes of her parents & twin sister Sasha. Lou's always been a rebel but now finds that if she wants to succeed she'll have to follow extremely strict rules. Can she do this or will it all end in deep disgrace? Tragedy haunts the other members of the family as Katie's plans for the future are dashed Fran's young husband is close to death & Bella's impossible passion has to remain a close secret. Yet even in the darkest hour there is hope. The Campions find that they have a hero in their midst & while their city is crumbling their pride is intact. ...

Penelope Ashford may be rich but she also has a social conscience. As Portia Cynster's younger sister she is forceful wilful & blunt to a fault
- & she has for years devoted her considerable energy & intelligence to caring for the forgotten orphans in London's East End. But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing & in desperation Penelope turns to the one man she knows might be able to help her
- Barnaby Adair. Handsome scion of a noble house Adair has made a name for himself in certain circles where his powers of observation & deduction have seen him solve several unsavoury crimes. Despite his skills
- or perhaps because of them
- he makes Penelope distinctly uncomfortable but the stakes are too high. Throwing caution to the wind defying every rule for unmarried ladies she appears on his doorstep late one night determined to recruit his talents. However soon the pair are in more danger than they could have ever imagined.



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February 1941. Julie Harris is working in Londons East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destroys her family & the house she grew up in. All she has left is her motherless baby nephew William. Determined to uphold her promise to her sister to keep William safe until his father Bill returns from the war she accepts a post as a midwife in Cliffehaven on the south-coast of Engl&. Here they are taken under the wing of the Reilly family at the Beach View boarding house. But all too soon Julie learns that Bill is missing in action & William falls dangerously ill. As she begins the long vigil by Williams beside she fears she will lose the little boy she has grown to love as her own. ...

In November 1942 two nights after the Battle of El Alamein a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery the Allied Commander who had just inflicted the first serious defeat on the Third Reich... This gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy
- the same camp made famous by Eric Newby
- & of his subsequent escape. Having decided to risk making his way back to Allied HQ in the south he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory evading capture again & again & ultimately being saved by a family of brave Italian peasants who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to hide him. In the winter of 1943 a year after he disappeared he staggered back into Army HQ to be greeted by his now famous stepfather with the words ' Where the hell have you been?' This is a great adventure story
- a reminder of a lost age when in the face of terrifying challenges a generation rose to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.


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Amid Icelands wild volcanic landscape rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune but if the rumours can be believed there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life. Untangling murder from myth is Icel&-born Boston-raised homicide detective Magnus Jonson. Seconded to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after he runs afoul of a drug cartel back in Boston Magnus also has his own reasons for returning to the country of his birth for the first time in nearly two decades
- the unsolved murder of his father. & as Magnus is about to discover the past casts a long shadow in Icel&. Binding Icelands landscape & history secrets & superstitions in a strikingly original plot that will span several volumes Where the Shadows Lie is the first in a thrilling new series from an established master.
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