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Dark Lies
Olive is living a quiet life with her young son Charles in a small town on the coast, but all is not as it seems. Strangers from the past come back to haunt her.
Life hasn’t always been easy for Olive, but just as she thought it couldn’t get any worse, she is left to work through a spiderweb of lies.
Throughout the story, Olive discovers that it can be the people who you think you know best that hold the most secrets.
When the lies and deceit take a hold on her, the innocence of her son keeps her sane.
After being trapped in the same chapter of her life for months on end, the truth helps Olive find clarity to finally move forward.
Whilst beginning to understand the truth, she realises there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Through the tests of love, loyalty and friendship, who would you trust?£8.99£6.29 -
Dark Revenge
Suzanne, once a resident of the Convent of the Golden Orb, finds herself drawn back to its echoing halls, now transformed into the luxurious Hotel Orb de L’Or in Switzerland. But a fateful trip to the hotel’s historic caves results in tragedy.
What does the cryptic ‘Count’s Revenge’ signify? And is there a cure for its menacing consequences?
Determined to unveil the truth behind Suzanne’s death, her former employer from International Viewpoint delves deep into the enigma. With a trusted circle of allies, he ventures into a web of secrets and shadows, racing against time to decipher a mystery that’s more intricate than it first appears.
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Fast Fashion and Flaneurs
Bill Wonder, the tyrannical billionaire fashion tycoon is found splattered on the pavement outside his fashion school in the West End of London.
Was he pushed from the balcony, did he jump, or it could have happened because of his high heel shoes?
The mystery of his death is stitched together by Sadie Silver, a hapless fashion history teacher, who needs to understand the incident to uncover her family’s sartorial secrets.
But wait, could she have killed Bill?
After all, she was the last person to see Bill alive, and he really seemed to hate her new look.
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His Mission Crossed His Path
A young man wakes up on a pavement with no sense of self and place.
His name is anonymous and his nationality is unknown. He doesn’t know his mother language even though he isn’t dumb. He is somewhere on earth but he doesn’t know the city in which he is lost and homeless. Moreover, he is looking for something he doesn’t know. It’s not an enigma but his life. At the first sign of the past a crime takes place. Flashbacks are enough to clear up somethings, but where is he? It remains a mystery and destiny aggravates it when it intervenes: divine retribution is sometimes a bequeathed mission to the descendants. Thus, he knows everything but he wishes he hadn’t known. Furthermore, he realizes that his war had already begun and now it’s the last battle.
A tale of finding one’s path, even if there is no idea where to begin.
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Jayne’s Secret Temptation
We all have a “moral compass”, learned either from parents, religious leaders, school teachers or peers. It is basically a set of rules we live our life by. Some of us are unwavering in our direction, others are more liberal in the interpretation of their core values.
This book attempts to explore what happens when these core values are challenged. It begs the question: “What would you do when confronted with huge risk or reward?” No matter what you say, it’s what you do that counts.
Jayne’s Secret Temptation introduces you to colourful characters with a novel and new approach with a degree of humour and realism.
It comes with a guaranteed surprise but is nonetheless a believable tale. You never know, it could actually happen!£9.99£6.99 -
King Solomon’s Gold
A rumour re-emerges about the fabled King Solomon’s mines, a legend about fabulously rich gold mines in Africa, immortalized in novels and movies. James Buchanan, an exploration geologist in Tanzania, who has already solved the mystery of the ‘plagues’ in America to help US President Caitlin Custer to prevent a national disaster, sets out to investigate.
James soon realizes from his research on gold mines in the Middle East and North Africa that there were no major gold deposits that could have been King Solomon’s mines during his lifetime. James works on the assumption that the legends refer to King Solomon’s Gold, a golden treasure hidden somewhere in Africa. Using his geological knowledge, he progressively eliminates the possibilities, but discovering the real location is more difficult and hazardous. Can he do it alone, or will he have to call in a favour from President Custer to seek her political help?
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Lasseter's Legendary Lost Reef
Headlines are made when a gold discovery that is claimed to be Lasseter’s legendary lost reef is made by the international company Krennerite Gold Corp. This is the most fabled lost gold reef in Australia’s long mining and exploration history, purported to have been discovered more than a century before. James Buchanan, a world-famous exploration geologist is intrigued because the region of the rediscovery is not known as a gold-bearing district but is frustrated in his efforts to access the discovery site to test his scepticism. Unexpectedly, James is approached by the Chinese chairman of the board of Krennerite, who is concerned about the veracity of the discovery and the damage to his reputation if any fraud is uncovered. He and James devise a plan which involves James and the chairman’s daughter Pearl posing as tourists in the Central Australian region near Alice Springs and Ayers Rock to remotely investigate the discovery site using a drone. How will they handle their contrasting western and Chinese cultures in the wild and dangerous Australian outback? Will conflict or romance evolve from their interaction? Will the reported discovery really represent Lasseter’s long-lost gold reef or are there more sinister motives and activities at play? Will rapidly evolving and challenging events played out in the Australian outback, in Western Australia, and China make positive or negative changes to the lives of those involved? Only time will tell!
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Lights Out for Granddad
Stephanie Golding takes licentious advantage of men. Or so it seems. Is that why she is brutally murdered at the crest of a quiet ravine, and with a weapon suggesting more torture than passionate death? Her fiancé vehemently denies involvement, so does everyone else.
The murderer in this apparently vengeful killing is investigated relentlessly by Detective Chief Inspector Charles Merstowe and his team of police and medical experts. Voyeurs, opportunists, friends of the victim, a mysterious white-haired man, shadows: all are suspect. Secrets must be uncovered, foibles exposed and explanations ruthlessly delved. Merstowe knows this, but the case fast becomes a losing challenge. Not much adds up. And what about upsetting machinations and revelations closer to home? There are unwelcome surprises there too. Even the police are disturbed.
An eventual ownership of the crime raises more fog than it diffuses. Perhaps only another death will clear the air completely of jealousy, hatred, blame, retribution and revenge. In the meantime, the veteran Merstowe is forced to question his own skills as a detective. His protégé questions his morals as well. His own doubts cast shadows over himself. Is he remotely on the right track? Was the victim in fact an angel? Or was she instead a cunning devil, too clever by half? Who were really her friends, and who her enemies? Most importantly, what’s wrong with the evidence? Stephanie Golding suffered in death. But why? It needs to be sorted out.
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Love Ever After
Everyone in town knows the Miller house and its occupant: old lady Miller. Local kids call it haunted while the adults just shake their head sadly thinking about poor Mrs Miller living all alone. Beyond that, no one gives it much thought, until the night Jason, his girlfriend, Erica, and a handful of friends venture off into the dark to check out the lake that borders her house. The lake is rumoured to hold the remnants of an earlier town lost to a flood. While checking out the forgotten town hidden in the murky water, the house seems to come to life.
With a dangerous storm coming, murderers on the loose and the mystery of the house looming over them, their small, sleepy town comes to life with imminent threats. Jason wants nothing more than to protect the love of his life, but with the group’s curiosity and a mystery to the Miller house that they just can’t let go, they are pulled into a tangled hunt that changes their lives forever.
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Magnet to Murder
In their quaint village, two retired ladies and their friend Jim, a retired policeman, find themselves irresistibly drawn to solving local mysteries. From Janie’s tears to an unidentified body in the park and the perplexing transformation of a cat, they become entangled in a web of enigmas. Seeking a break, they embark on a holiday, only to be confronted with another murder within their group. Accused by the police inspector of being magnets to murder, they must unravel the truth before danger strikes again.
In this captivating tale, these retirees embrace adventure, delving into secrets and peril that threaten their peaceful existence. As their bond strengthens, their determination to bring justice to their community intensifies. Can they solve the puzzles and prove their innocence before suspicion consumes them? The stakes are high as they navigate the twists and turns of their village’s mysteries.
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Mary Copeland: Victorian detective
Mary Copeland: Victorian detective examines the life of this young woman who is raised by her uncle and aunt in London in the late nineteenth century and who develops into a detective of stature who works on request for Scotland Yard. As a woman, however, it is almost impossible to fulfil a social function and so she has to do her job anonymously. She is assisted in this by employees of Scotland Yard, with whom she forms a secret unit over time.
The stories, which take place from 1888, include many painters from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The titles of the four stories are taken from paintings from that time. Swiers impressively manages to portray the London of those days, just after The Ripper Murders and before The London Dock Strike.
In the Netherlands, the first four books on Mary Copeland were published between 2019 and 2022 and subsequent volumes are in preparation.
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Melancholy of the Heart - Echoes on the Wind
From an early age Ruth had always struggled to fit in. Her only solace was provided by the abundance of nature she enjoyed living by the beautiful North Cornwall coast. She took pleasure in seeing the resilience of sea pinks, small pink flowers clinging to the cliffs and the warm coconut aroma of vivid orange gorse. As an only child she felt lost and isolated until her gift made itself known to her. This gift gave her a reason to live in a world she barely understood. She was not prepared however for the toll on her emotional and physical self her gift would exact from her, never knowing when she would be called upon to help those no longer of this time find forgiveness.
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