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Destiny's Elbow
Working against the background of a campaign for Scottish independence, American undercover narcotics agent, Roz Tattarkowski, has to take over as lead investigator when her chief is killed in a mysterious accident in Edinburgh. From that time on, she receives minimal support from her organization in the U.S.A.Seemingly left alone to operate in a country she dislikes and struggles to understand, Roz relies on skills she learned as an aspiring but unsuccessful actor in New York. These enable her to track through political intrigue and deceit into a world of narcotics production, immigrant smuggling and trade in human organs. In the process, she becomes involved in further intrigue at the international level, when her acting talents are put to a final test: war will be the outcome if they fail.Throughout these events, Roz takes pride in her imagination and improvisation. But what appear to be actions taken freely and on personal initiative turn out to be plots scripted and directed by unseen hands.
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Delany's Challenge
Josh Delany had, in a previous life, been a Special Forces officer for many years, leaving the army after being seriously injured, indeed almost killed whist abroad on active duty, saving the lives of others, and forcing him to leave the army he loved.As a civilian, after witnessing very impressive police work by a friend, who brought the killer of his mother-in-law to justice, (described in the author’s previous book Delany’s Progess) he decided that his own future lay within that sphere.Because of his previous experience he was a master of intrigue and disguise, having the ability to infiltrate gangs of serious criminals, become an excepted member of those groups and work with them until eventually when the time was right bringing them crashing down. As time went on, he eventually had a very good relationship, indeed friendship with a lifetime small crook and old lag, Deuteronomy Golightly, who assisted him greatly on many occasions, sometimes in quite humorous circumstances. He is also a dedicated family man, loving his wife Wendy and his two daughters. This book leads into the start of the author’s book Beware My Shadow, when Wendy and one of his daughters met brutal deaths. Had the killers been aware of the capabilities of Josh Delany, it is certain that they would have been much more careful.
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Death of a Grey Man
Step aside Inspector Rebus, there's another crime solver stalking the not so mean streets of Edinburgh's New Town. This one comes with calculator, accountancy tables and a broken marriage. When Sandy Gray's father's murdered body is left in an Edinburgh tourist spot and the police investigation stalls he wants to know the reason why. He enlists the help of his erstwhile and much more worldly-wise friend Billy. Together they share the pursuit that moves the action from Scotland's Capital to the Border Country. This is a story that keeps the reader guessing and amused right until the end.
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Death Behind the Headlines
It is February 1986. Margery Moore, photojournalist and feature writer for the local paper, is unprepared for major news stories to unfold near her cottage, under the shadow of the mysterious and legendary Glebe Mound. When two of her acquaintances are found dying and historic documents go missing, Margery finds herself under suspicion. An eccentric recluse is arrested. Local gossip involves Margery’s Russian ‘fancy man’.Two inquests explain everything, or do they? Margery’s nosy neighbour is as perplexed as she is. Can it be down to the malignant spirits of the six witches of Havell-on-the-Marsh, who were hanged on the Glebe Mound four hundred years earlier?Angry demonstrations in the marketplace against the cancellation of the traditional midsummer fair, proposals for a bypass and plans to build on the green belt culminate in a fracas after the Valentine’s Ball. Can the detective from Scotland Yard enlisted by the mayor solve these mysteries? Or does his dismissive attitude to the provinces, legend and gossip blind him to the truth?
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CodeX
Sarah, a simple secretary, becomes the involuntary heroine of a story of political corruption together with her old love, Michael, who suddenly reappears in her life. She will find herself fighting to bring out the incredible truth. An ancient family pendant left by him in custody before disappearing again will soon prove to be an object of great importance and be a crucial point of the story.The sequence of events which follow one another at a rapid pace open the doors for Sarah to an unknown world made of intrigues and conspiracies that change her life, bringing her to various risky yet fascinating distant places in the search of Michael, who is soon discovered to be an agent of the secret service.
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Cadaver Crime Unit
Two dogs, Oreo and Trooper, are trained to find bodies in unusual places. They are part of a team that is unique. Watch as they unravel their very first case. They will be joined by their owner who will also go on a journey of his own. This very first book in the series will take you on a journey in their home county of Yorkshire. They might have to travel to find their clues. Why have these people been killed? There's also an international connection, but how are they involved? What is the motive? Its all to do with the keys and a trap door. Will Oreo and Trooper do their jobs well? There will be many twists and turns. Can you guess who the guilty person is before you get to the end? Who? What? Why? Is the key the link? Or is it just a red herring to lead the detectives the wrong way. Read to find out what journey the detective is going on.
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Born Guilty - Never Say Never
A family of four whose father loses his life after being trapped in a vicious cycle of narcotics. A time came the mother fell ill as well and needed funds to be hospitalised and the first son unknowingly fell in the hands of his old secondary school days’ gangs, which led to his immediate death.Will the changed identity of the last brother, Hausa Northener, help him to survive through the ill-fated spell his family went through?
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Blood in the Sand
Khalifa’s life couldn't get any worse. He’s a 30-year-old detective drowning in debt, struggling to quit smoking, and still living with his parents in Dubai. But when he stumbles upon a string of global killings with a mysterious connection, he sees a chance to turn his life around.Before he can share his discovery with the authorities, Khalifa’s life as he knew it is cut short by a devastating car accident that lands him in a coma. With no other options left, his parents decide to try an experimental cryonics procedure to preserve his body until a cure can be found.A hundred years later, Khalifa awakens to a world he doesn’t recognize, but one thing remains constant: the serpent killings continue. With a new lease on life, Khalifa seizes the opportunity to go undercover and infiltrate the dangerous serpent cult responsible for the murders.As he delves deeper into the secretive organization, Khalifa uncovers a web of conspiracy and corruption that threatens to unravel everything he thought he knew. Can he solve the mystery of the serpent killings and save the world from their deadly grasp? Or will he succumb to the same fate as those who came before him?
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Beware My Shadow
Delany has experience in lawful subterfuge and disguise, which he gained whilst being employed by the military and the police.When members of his family become victims of violent criminal acts and the offenders cannot be brought to justice because of the destruction of evidence and other inside interference, will such a man shrug his shoulders and walk away, or will he cast a vengeful shadow upon those he knows to be responsible?
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A Much-Weighted Reunion
Prepare to embark on an unforgettable journey with A Much-Weighted Reunion, where the weight of the past bears heavy on the present. As the reunion unfolds, guests who have long pursued success and happiness find themselves confronted with their deepest fears. Initially, their nightmares take on a strange and humorous form, lulling them into a false sense of security. However, nothing could prepare them for the true events that await, forever binding them together in a tangled web of intrigue, lies, and deception. Brace yourself for a captivating tale that explores the enduring consequences of the past and the unyielding bonds forged amidst a backdrop of suspense.
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Zero Recall
Imagine what it would be like if every single fragment of your memory is erased and all you know is that someone is trying to kill you.
When Jason Harper wakes up in hospital, he has no knowledge of who or what he is and, more importantly, who had tried to kill him and caused the bloodbath at his house. It seems that a bullet fragment lodged in the brain does that to you.
He has been informed of his name and that he is a psychiatrist by a disturbingly attractive detective sitting by his bedside. He assumes that he must have had patients, but knowledge of family and friends, colleagues, his past and his future is a total blank. He has nothing other than grim determination to help him piece together the puzzle that is his former life.
A suspenseful, frightening road of unravelling his past and the people populating it, enfolds with many unsuspecting twists and turns. Some information comes as a shock and it is only when he delves into the darker side of his past that he is able to make some sense of the present.
Harper will be profoundly tested on his ability to stay alive as well as his mental capacity to emotionally deal with his past.
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Zanadu
What do you get when you combine a phonetically spelt outback station, a sarcastic ex-Detective with the last name Standononeleg, a tag-a-long named Duncan and a clapped out old ute?
A Queenslander’s idea of humour, a sheep or two and a kangaroo, too many cups of tea, and a murder most foul (and covered in red dust. Everything is covered in red dust there. Check your grundies).
You will need to read the rest of the story or the author will make me cark it in the next one.£8.99