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Whistling in the Dark
Samuel was 15 year old boy living in the affluent Stockbroker’s Belt of London with his rich parents Eugene and Annabelle Pritchard.Eugene was a very successful merchant banker who had to work exclusively from his study due to a serious heart condition… Annabella was 20 years younger than Eugene… Samuel adored his father but hated his mother who was in his eye a ‘whore’ on account of her indefinitely. Eugene’s love for Anabella was so strong that he would accept any lies which she told him.Heartache comes to the Pritchard household with the sudden death of Eugene due to a heart attack. Annabella tragically dies two weeks later due to an unexplained household accident… Samuel suffers a serious mental breakdown and is sent to an institution for a mentally ill.After 10 years in the institution Samuel resumes life with an inheritance worth millions… As he settles into his recently purchased country mansion. Samuel employs a butler named Thomas. Samuel and Thomas are both like-minded people and a bond is quickly established between them.This new life will test Samuel and all around him.
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Quake Day
Tom is a young man from the traveller community who has a six-year-old sister, Luckry (Lucretia) who's a bit of a pain, and a ‘girlfriend' (don't say that or she'll slap him) Nat. All is going well in a kids growing up kind of way until fracking starts in the local countryside when Tom gets his nickname ‘Blotch' owing to the burns he gets from corrosive chemicals stored in the mining company's yard.But the Travelling community has some beliefs that are not held by everyone and such strong family ties that even death cannot separate generations. And when Luckry swears she's received instructions from dead Big Gran involving throwing money in a wishing well she just has to do it, even if means bringing on an earthquake ...Robert Dawson's Tuesday, Wednesday Quake Day is an endearing adventure story for children which has a central theme of acceptance and a big brother looking out for his little sister.
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The Woman in the Wind
Julia is married to a successful psychiatrist, and they live in a beautiful house in Palm Beach, Florida. She is hoping to fall pregnant and life couldn’t be better. When her husband Todd begins regularly visiting a troublesome patient at night, she wonders about his fidelity. Delving into his records at the home consulting room, Julia finds disturbing news of something much bigger than expected. One of the patients harbours a terrible secret and the woman Todd regularly visits seems somehow involved. Julia begins to notice a woman watching her from amongst the dunes, who disappears when Julia approaches. In the meantime, a stranger has been following Julia, and her life descends into a chilling search for what is really happening. Eventually, she must not only deal with a dangerous mystery but also something she discovers about herself.
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The Tin Soldiers
Raphael Undu is 13 years old, a farmer’s son in Congo’s rebellious, mineral-rich east. When war scatters his family, he must protect his little sister, Keisha, and try to reunite them. He is a tough and resourceful boy, but ranged against him are rebels and a renegade army, vying for control of mineral wealth beyond imagination.While Raphael’s personal crisis spirals out of control, photographer James Falkus follows clues to the Congo, hoping to piece together the puzzle surrounding his birth parents. James, however, is opening a Pandora’s box, with devastating and far-reaching consequences for everyone around him.All the while, the lives of ordinary people are being manipulated by powerful national and global forces locked in a struggle for control of the country and its natural riches, and playing a high-stakes poker game for global influence. Only one thing is certain—nothing and no one here are what they seem.
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The Time Detective - Book 1 - Discovery
Marshall Bellows is a present day crime fighter and Allan Besley his alter ego in 1956 (after the discovery of a wormhole during the chase of a sick, perverted serial killer). Can Marshall/Allan survive this double life in two times, two seemingly different worlds and two loves or will one the worlds pull him in deeper, where he finds it harder and harder to leave? This first book, Discovery, begins the fight for Marshall in both worlds. A man with strong convictions with no qualms about “getting his hands dirty” if that is what’s required. Is he judge, jury and executioner? Strange and desperate times require certain measures and Marshall is the man for the job, in both times.
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The Sweet Taste of Death
In The Sweet Taste of Death, Tom Pierce has produced an intriguing and absorbing tale which is more than just an account of a retired police superintendent's holiday in the South of France. Matthew and his wife, Beth, become accidentally involved in a dramatic attempt to smuggle priceless historical artefacts out of France. Blundering into the middle of these events Matthew is forced to re-examine his priorities and his commitment to his wife, after a life spent fighting crime, often to the exclusion of all else. The beautiful but savage scenery and extraordinary story of medieval sacrifice provide a stunning theatre for this satisfying read, which is highly recommended as an absorbing book which successfully combines the suspense, history, travel and detective genres.
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The Souring of Sweet Charity
Still grieving after the tragically early death of her beloved husband, Gina returns to her island home of 15 years to find that her criticisms about the administration of the Angelus Charity of which she used to be a trustee have not been acted upon in her absence. Money is going missing and Gina finds that in this closed community she has no idea who to trust and who might be involved with the heartless criminals. Her increasingly desperate attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears until an old acquaintance, Maxim, a philanthropist millionaire, steps in. With his help in investigating the irregularities, she finds that the charity has been infiltrated by an organised gang of fraudsters who will stop at nothing, including murder, to cover up their misdeeds. Could a change in the island's law help bring the miscreants to justice?
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The Sicilian Favour!
Indulge yourself in a world of intrigue, drugs, murder and the criminal underworld in Peter Oredsson's The Sicilian Favour! The human condition is brought very much into sharp focus with the author's defining characterisation which demonstrates the twin governing principles that often dominate in life, fear and greed. A clever plotline weaves all the threads together resulting in an unexpected and impossible to predict conclusion, linking together seemingly unconnected people with dramatic and devastating results. The Sicilian Favour! has an international setting and is a compelling tale which will keep the reader's attention to the end via a mix of horrible fascination and personal empathy with the plight of some of the main characters. For those readers that believe in luck both good and bad and fate, there is a liberal sprinkling of all of these too as the plot twists and turns through to its dramatic ending. The Sicilian Favour! Is a real page turner from an established author who knows just what it takes to keep the reader's attention.
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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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