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The Resurrection
World-renowned scientist and Nobel laureate, Sir Francis MacLeod, is about to make a startling revelation – a revelation that would challenge everything scientists have thought about DNA – when he suddenly collapses.What happens next is a bizarre chain of events that puts science and religion on a collision course and spurs an international murder investigation.Set in Cambridge in the mid-2020s, The Resurrection is a fast-paced mystery thriller that exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church, corruption within the pharmaceutical industry and proposes answers to some of mankind’s most profound questions.
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The Puppet Tears
Marianna Pascal discovers a secret drawer in the basement of her home – a drawer filled to the brim with hexes and spell-settings that seem in some way related to her and her partner, Samuel. She is unaware of the ramifications her discovery will have on the course of her happy existence.Lying in the core of the drawer are dolls of her and Samuel, bound and stitched together, with hair that can only have grown from her head, and clothes made from garments believed lost or misplaced. She breaks the bonds and removes the doll, and thus begins the undoing of the spells that have controlled her life and her love for the past two decades.Samuel must act fast to prevent losing everything he’s embroiled into his skewed existence, stepping further into the world of the occult than he ever has before to prevent losing everything he’s contrived into his undeserving life, but to what end?The Puppet Tears takes you on a journey inside a warped mind, a mind that long ago rejected a reality that denied it the life it craved. But all things in life must come at a price. Is Samuel willing to pay the piper?
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The Phoenix Project
The 1960s saw great upheaval in the West, with social change giving rise to civil disobedience, no more so than in the student movement. By 1968 the government has become concerned that communism may be a factor and calls on Polly Bottomley for advice. Mrs Bottomley, a retired MP, has unrivalled experience of Soviet conspiracies, having been involved on two occasions with their attempts to conspire, both in Britain and in Europe.However, her life will be put in grave danger and an emotional and romantic attachment will become a distraction over which she has no control and will change her life forever.The Phoenix Project paints a vivid picture of how political ambition can be exploited for personal reasons and can soon spiral out of control.
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The Odessa Connection
2008: Almost three years have passed since the tumultuous events outlined in The Mendelssohn Connection, which thrust the unwilling Isaac Menshive into a position of global responsibility as the head of a fabulously wealthy family trust. Isaac now lives quietly, if luxuriously, in a dacha in the west of Russia with his new family: his young wife Sophie, heavily pregnant with their second child, and his infant son. While Isaac’s marital contentment has put paid to his former philandering ways, it is his old friend and most trusted adviser Will MacIntosh who finds himself emotionally unmoored — at exactly the moment when events conspire to put the immense burden of the trust squarely on his shoulders.Still in danger from unknown forces that will stop at nothing to get their hands on the trust’s considerable assets, Will and his team continue to investigate its origins and the extraordinary fortune that it has accrued over the centuries. The team’s researches point them in the direction of the city of Odessa and the early 20th century, and the unexpected involvement of two men: the first a very familiar figure from Russian history; the second hailing from Will’s own backyard on Prince Edward Island…Moving between Russia, the Ukraine, London and the Mediterranean, this second instalment of the trilogy that started with The Mendelssohn Connection finds our protagonists Will and Isaac tested as never before. Now that he has so much to lose, Isaac experiences the extremes of joy and despair, while Will, weighed down by ever more responsibility, finds his stolid self- assurance evaporating as he discovers betrayal lurking around every corner.
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The Meddling Ghosts
In turns both hilarious and tragic, two worlds collide in The Meddling Ghosts.A cast of inept ghosts, some of them centuries old, and a modern, dysfunctional family, hooked on technology and social media, co-habit Cuckoo House, a former inn. Meet the Berridges: Elaine and Hugh – teetering on the brink of a marriage break-up – and their teenage children, Leah and Jake. Elaine is chronically depressed, and spends most of her time asleep or on Facebook. Hugh has become dependent on alcohol. Leah seeks solace in a perilous online world, Jake on his Xbox.The ghosts – a disparate bunch led by Colonel Pine, who still looks at everything as a military operation – have a mammoth task on their hands to stop the Berridge family from self-destructing. But will their meddling be enough?
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The Man Without A Name
In picking up this book, you must have felt intrigued by the flavour of mystery. Mostly, it is so. Who killed Kennedy? Who was King Arthur? Did Diana die by accident? They are ready instances – all Anglo-Saxon compulsions, but other nations and cultures have theirs. The pages you have in your hands provide answer to the greatest mystery of all. Vital, far-reaching and outstanding for almost 2000 years. Why was the tomb of Jesus found empty? Who was the unnamed man who wrote the gospel called ‘John’ – an account different to all the others? The most knowing. Jewish and giving a vitally different understanding. The flow of questions arising out of his almost contradictory account makes for an evermore intriguing quest. The conclusions for an answer to the mystery that has stood before everyone, for so long, as by far, the mightiest of all.
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The House at Plum Bay
With his life collapsing around his ears – his divorce recent and raw, and facing financial ruin – Oliver has to sell his house to pay crippling business debts. He finds, to his amazement, he has inherited from his alcoholic father, a house in the hitherto unheard of, Plum Bay.Where the hell is Plum Bay? And why did old Bill have a house there? Before he knows it, Oliver finds himself forging a new life in the isolated, windswept south coast hamlet. He meets the mysterious Ruby and unearths some remarkable facts about his late father…and himself.
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The Funicular
A senior detective from the Victorian Police attends a symposium in Madrid. Afterwards, he takes a holiday in Bilbao in the north of Spain, especially to visit the famous Guggenheim Museum.Whilst riding the funicular to the top of the mountain that overlooks the city, he witnesses a shooting in the descending train as it passes. After reporting the incident to the local police, he is invited to assist them in tracking down the killer.At the same time, a major art work that was destined for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum is stolen from a warehouse and the two crimes are found to be connected.So begins an adventure for our detective that takes him on an exciting journey to Russia, Brazil, Chile and, ultimately, back to Australia. Is the mastermind behind the crimes apprehended and the stolen painting recovered?
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The Fisherwoman
In 1957, in a small town in America - where life can sometimes be prejudiced and even a little judgemental - Pearl Fisher is raped and as a result, she has a baby. The good people of Stirville, unaware of her circumstances, are indulging in a hearty bout of malevolent gossip, the full force of which is interrupted by the unsatisfying announcement of Pearl's death.For the young Tom Carter, Pearl had been someone to protect. For his friend William Kendall, Pearl had been the luminescence of the county, a desirable prize for any young man. For the coroner Paul Beddows, accustomed to the sophistication and indulgences of the city, Pearl Fisher's death is a tedious, parochial bore.But, for the self-righteous bigots of Stirville, the inquest is a splendid occasion to dress up and rejoice, an opportunity to justify their persecution and denunciation of the wicked young girl. Tom Carter squeezes himself into the packed courtroom with only one question in his mind: who in this community killed Pearl Fisher?
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The Fischers, Vol 2 Married to Mayhem
Pyah and Mark Fischer are taking some well-earned time off to celebrate their first wedding anniversary in Africa. Unfortunately, their holiday is cut brutally short when they find that a bounty has been put on their heads.Suspecting this is the work of an old enemy after revenge, they find themselves joined by their boss Carl Sinclair, his girlfriend/PA Sarah and their MI6 friend Lacey, to try and take care of their enemy before they find themselves killed by villainous mercenaries, only too keen for the bounty money.But things are not all they seem as a simple revenge plot warps into something much more sinister, and the Fischers and their friends must try and work out friend from foe in an increasingly dangerous set of circumstances before it is too late - for themselves and for the world.
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The Fischers Vol 3: Wedded Blitz
On their third outing, Mark and Pyah Fischer find themselves up against insurmountable odds. A convoluted plot of violence and debauchery. Can they save the day and their friends? Risk is an incalculable factor when the game is all or nothing. Espionage. Treason. Lust. A tale of carnage, both in the streets and in the bedroom.
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The Final Chapter for Some
In a quiet town where the most dramatic stories are found on bookshelves, a real-life horror unfolds.The local library, once a sanctuary of knowledge, now becomes the epicentre of a chilling mystery as staff members meet untimely ends. These were ordinary individuals, deeply embedded in their daily routines, now silenced forever.Yet, every death tells a story. Behind the façade of daily transactions and book returns lurk secrets desperate to remain unread. Someone harbours a truth so dark, they’re willing to kill to keep it.Who holds such a deadly secret? And who will be the next to reach their story’s ominous conclusion in The Final Chapter for Some?
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