Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine & Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs cash weapons people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation & what is being moved is infinitely stranger & more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone that is except private detective Charlie Parker who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in mens hearts. But the soldiers actions have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod a man with a taste for the strange. & where Herod goes so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other the killer known as the Collector.. . ...

This book features the worldly wise DI Brock & his wry sidekick DS Poole. When Jimmy Spotter Gould is shot dead within seconds of emerging from Londons Stone Mill Prison at the end of an eight-year sentence for armed robbery DCI Brock & DS Poole are faced with yet another baffling crime. As enquiries continue an embezzling solicitors clerk a dodgy undertaker & a dubious motor trader all come into the frame. Added to which a Bosnian doctor & Her Majestys Revenue & Customs also feature in a tale that eventually culminates in the uncovering of a complex smuggling operation & the arrest of the murderers of Spotter Gould & two other players in the scam. ...

A gruesome discovery leads Libertus on a dangerous quest...
- " Wealthy Volus ex-lictor to the Imperial Governor of Gaul
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A short holiday with his mother turns out very differently for Joe than he could have imagined when he left home. Soon he is embroiled in a world of witchcraft a world where the kind & innocent witches of Britain are facing a wicked foe. Can Joe & his young friend Twiggy put an end to the cunning plot or will they like their witchy friends find the baffling mystery too hard to solve? ...

The Whispering Wind is a moving story of two lovers set on the beautiful island of Sardinia where Elise goes on holiday to escape a loveless & violent marriage. Whilst there she meets & falls in love with Beppe a local Sard. Despite religious & cultural complications they embark on a romantic & passionate affair. Beppe shows Elise his island & introduces her to the welcoming culture of the Sardinians & Elise soon falls under the spell of both the island & its people. But after weeks of blissful happiness Elise has to return unexpectedly to England to face all the problems she had been so desperate to leave behind... The Whispering Wind is a work of fiction that will appeal to women who are romantics at heart. ...

At a camp filled with vampires werewolves & fairies Kylie Galen has always struggled to figure out what she is. Now she finally knows the truth
- but shes left with more questions than answers. She doesnt have a clue what her heritage means or how to harness her newfound powers. All she knows is that she needs to sort out her feelings for Derek the sexy half-Fae who just confessed his love & Lucas her werewolf boyfriend who seems more committed to his pack than to their relationship. All the while Kylies dealing with a group of underground rogues who want her dead & a mysterious grandfather who makes it clear he doesnt trust the FRU...or Shadow Falls. Soon Kylie will have to choose: Will she stay with the new family shes formed at Shadow Falls or will she leave with her grandfather & embrace her destiny?
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Whispers in the Graveyard" is a gripping powerful & haunting story. Solomon is bullied by his teachers & feels let down by his parents: his father drinks too much & his mother has left him. His refuge is in the local kirkyard among ancient graves that lie in the shadow of the rowan tree the only thing that grows there. Then workmen uproot the tree & as it decays a strange power is unleashed. Solomon hears whispers & first-grader Amy Miller dreams of a strange lady with an alluring song. Solomon finds out the kirkyard was both the site of a witch hunt & the burial place for small pox victims. Did the witch leave a curse for the miller's descendants? Solomon must uncover the mysteries of the past & save Amy." ...

From the bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes Whispers in the Sand set in richly mysterious Egypt where past & present collide. Recently divorced Anna decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother made in the nineteenth century: a Nile cruise from Luxor to the Valley of the Kings. Anna carries with her on the voyage two mementoes of her great-grandmother Louisa: an ancient Egyptian scent bottle & the diary of that original Nile cruise which has lain unread for a hundred years. As she follows in Louisas footsteps Anna discovers in the diary the chilling secret of the scent bottle & is pursued by the same terrifying spectres as her great grandmother. ...

For West London girls Sal & Ann Storey 1957 should have been one of the happiest years of their lives. Instead the sisters world is turned upside down when two family tragedies strike in quick succession. Left to run the familys sweetshop with their grandmother Sal discovers she has a flair for business
- but it doesnt make up for everything she & Ann have lost. When Sal meets handsome taxi driver Bob Beck & falls deeply in love it seems that her luck is changing. Bob becomes her one constant as she struggles to keep the business afloat & as Ann finally uncovers the guilty secret shes been carrying for so long; a secret which could have explosive consequences for the sisters. The last thing Sal needs is for Bobs scheming ex-fiancee Kate to reappear in his life
- especially as Kate is preparing to make a stunning revelation; one which could destroy their relationship for good...

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When the rector Peter takes his family to Africa for a year so that he can work in a Mission the villagers are bereft. What's more the locum Anna has rather modern ideas & the parishioners determined to keep an eye on her. Then she brings a down-&-out petty thief into their midst sparking conflict within the community. The Women's Institute comes up with the idea of raising funds for Peter's Mission & holds an upmarket pyjama party midnight skinny dipping & an afternoon's horse racing. Then a message arrives from Peter with the most devastating news
- & the villagers are more determined than ever to raise a substantial sum for the Mission.
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