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The Domino Factor
Two worlds collide! It is 1941, eighteen-year-old Katerina documents her harrowing flight from Ukraine and the Nazi occupation in her personnel journal.
81 years later, her grandson Ivan Kross and long-time friend Nikolas, meet after five long years. During a friendly game of chess, discussions turn to Ivan’s preoccupation with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, triggering a chain of events irrevocably changing his life.
Ivan and his family are drawn into a thrilling vortex of political intrigue, cyber-attacks, AI drone surveillance and covert infiltration. From Geneva to London to Moscow, his path crosses, retired British special forces Lieutenant Colonel Roger Aitkens and his SAS Black OPS team, as well as, outlawed, independent Russian journalist, Arianna Nekraslova, who’s audacity and resources will prove invaluable in navigating through the back alleys of Moscow.
The riveting chronicle unfolds into a shattering domino effect, shaking the foundations of the Kremlin and setting in motion ramifications threatening the rule of a Russian Federation on the brink of nuclear armageddon.
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The Dream Institute
Leif Hjernø, a psychologist of Argentine and Danish descent and the son of Danish immigrants, and his secretary, Olga Tretkova, share a common passion for exploring the mysteries of the subconscious mind through their membership in IASD (The International Association for the Study of Dreams). When Olga is tasked with writing a biography of Leif and his institute, she turns to his renowned dream archive for inspiration. As they collaborate on the project, an unspoken attraction between them grows.
However, their peaceful work environment is shattered when a man is found murdered in one of the dream cabins in the institutes cellar. The victim is none other than the person Leif despises the most, and the evidence points to Leif as the prime suspect. With his fingerprints found on the murder weapon, one of his own kitchen knives, Leif’s reputation and career are at risk. Olga must use her expertise to help clear his name, but the deeper they delve, the more they uncover secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
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The Dutch Institute
Survive long enough and you become the problem.
Dr. Marten Keyser has incurable cancer. With nothing to lose he survives by pursuing a drug regime of his own devising. Already unpopular with the powerbrokers in the dystopian healthcare system, he then develops a light-based therapy, but his low-cost innovation threatens the power balance and a cat-and-mouse game of survival ensues. In the face of mounting intrigue aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, Marten and his wife delve into high-level corruption, struggle to save their relationship, and build new alliances that might offer them a safe future.£3.50 -
The Eyes of Reba Lessing
Reba’s childhood memories are full of nightmares and visions that she struggled to understand, and she is isolated and lonely. Raised by a cold, damaged mother and a grandfather with secrets of his own, she was often frightened and confused as she discovers her special ‘gift’. Reba never knew the father who disappeared before she was born, and she can only sense the secrets that surround her.
The adult Reba has to contend with visions that are not always welcome, and after one episode in which she sees a vision of a missing boy, her life gradually spirals out of control as she is pursued by a mysterious group called The Authority, whose leader is convinced she holds information that her psychic powers could lead them to a fortune in looted Nazi gold. Meanwhile, Reba has to come to terms with a family history that starts in the concentration camps of Europe and a terrible crime.
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The Fire of Mars
At the latter end of 2006, a well-respected, married, church Deacon discovers the possible hiding place of a huge ruby named ‘The Fire of Mars'. He becomes obsessed by it and it drives his every thought, but when he meets and falls under the spell of the beautiful and bi-sexual Julie, his life begins to spiral to depths he never thought possible.
In November of the same year, historic researcher Naomi Wilkes and her husband Carlton, arrive in Charleston, South Carolina,
in pursuit of the same stone.
And nobody has any idea of the horrific discoveries
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The Forgotten Gun
A Metropolitan Police detective about to be dismissed is given a second chance by his old boss, who is now a police commander. He’s given a new unit to run and two misfit detectives to assist him. All three know their status is temporary.
Their first case together is an impossible double murder. Each murder is identical. Both victims are expertly shot in the head from long range, but the post-mortems reveal no bullets were used in the shootings. The CSI teams calculate that in both cases there was no place for the marksman to have fired from, unless suspended over busy roads.
Although it’s a case apparently impossible to solve, DCI Steve Burt reluctantly agrees to investigate with his new team. Their enquiries lead them into the murky world of greed, corruption, fraud and money laundering, but they are no nearer solving the murders.
The team is stumped until the DCI meets a retired army major and a WW2 veteran who unwittingly hold the keys to solving these impossible murders.
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The Gargoyle
Major Terry Knight, ex-special forces black-ops specialist, now recently retired due to injuries received during his last tour of duty, buys a very old and isolated manor house deep in the country, close to the sea and moves in with his family to enjoy the peace and quiet.
Unfortunately, things do not go to plan! A series of rumours, innuendos and worrying occurrences and the discovery of a hidden laboratory deep down below the house puts Terry and his family in harm’s way. He follows his intuition and finds that the house and surrounding area hide a terrifying secret kept for the last 20 years.
Persons unknown will stop at nothing to preserve and benefit from this. The body count, already high, continues to grow unabated.
Terry meets up with an old colleague who helps him work out what is happening and with support from a shadowy person from Group, the name of his old command. All of them are put in terrible danger before the truth is finally revealed in the old mine shafts and tunnels beneath the manor house where they confront their enemies and come face to face with the terrifying guardian protecting the secrets.
An explosive finale takes place at a nearby airfield before the plot concludes.
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The Gate in the Fence
The book is about two neighbours who live in houses separated by a fence with a gate in it. It was there before either of them moved in. The gate provides easy access between the two properties. One of the neighbours is an ex-war vet who lives alone and is struggling with life and relationships after his combat experiences. The other property houses a family: a bank manager and his wife. The husband, Michael moves in first to take up his new role at the bank, while his wife stays on to sell the old house. In his new role he inherits a PA who sees her new boss as a bit of challenge, in more ways than one. Katie, Michael’s wife finally settles in to life at the new home, until one morning there is an unexpected knock at the front door. Who is it, and what do they want? What happens next will change all of their lives forever. The twists and turns in the storyline will have you wanting to know what happens next. Love, deception, deceit, planning, scheming, strength, courage, murder, revenge – the story has it all. Where will it all end and where will they all end up? Or will it end at all?
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The Gene Genie
Do you ever escape emotional scars handed down by your parents?
Can you change the path of destiny?
It’s 1978. The winter of discontent brings Britain to its knees, the world’s first test tube baby is born...and the Sex Pistols play their last gig together. In a downbeat London suburb, teenager Emily Enderbie gives birth to twins, Annie and Bea. Separated at birth in shocking circumstances, the girls face very different futures. Raising vital questions about family, identity, pain and loss, the book explores the way the past stalks the present and the enduring heartache passed from one generation to the next.
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The Girl Unknown
Luck has never been on Lucie Palmer’s side. She feels her life is a cursed one, full of loneliness and cruel blows. How else can she explain being removed from the family she loved as a child? Or being imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit as a young woman? Her life isn’t fair…
But now it’s time to rebuild her life, to start afresh. Lucie attempts to learn the secrets of her family’s past, about the people she was never allowed to love. But does a curse shadow her existence even now? A curse ready to strike again? Maybe even destroy her for good? Can she finally piece together the emptiness in her life before it’s too late, to no longer be the girl unknown…?
With gripping twists, turns and a shocking ending, The Girl Unknown is unputdownable thriller fiction at its most electrifying.
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The Girl with a Parrot
In the second thrilling adventure of The Sloping Meadow trilogy, Lucy continues as the storyteller. She with her friends experience a series of adventures. The story’s exposition involves the saving of a drowning man. He is Bora, a very special man, keen to help his friend, Professor Mendoza; since he is ill, he will be sending his daughter first. This will be by a nuclear submarine.
The enigmatic daughter arrives and is taken by Lucy and her friends to Box Hill, but on the visit to a London museum, North Kortana has already tracked the submarine and now activates its most ruthless spy, Hye Booh. A drone tries to film them all in Sloping Meadow but they are helped by Helen Scott, an MI6 officer. They are all kidnapped when the professor arrives and are dragged to an abandoned airport, where Helen Scott tries to save them…
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The Healed
A woman wakes up with her arms and legs tied, realizing almost immediately she is lying on train tracks. And to make matters worse, she has no memory of who she is or how she got there.
As she tries to live her life, still unsure whether she should start fresh or keep looking for information about herself, she can’t shake the feeling that there is something different about her. And, slowly, some memories start coming back to her, but they only bring more questions rather than answers.£3.50