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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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From the Village of Lucca
What connects a brutal robbery in the Tuscan village of Lucca, to murders that occurred in the American Southwest? And how could a killing that took place in an Arizona bordello be related to what happened in a grim asylum nearly a lifetime later? Paul Rankin is about to learn the answers-and much more. The young lawyer has been practicing barely a year, but already hates it. He's been hoping for the thrills of the courtroom, but the firm's wealthy clients have infuriating whims about a lawyer's role-the last one paid five hundred an hour for him to walk her dog! Enter Louisa Locke, a tiny, dying widow with a mysterious missing person case. The brittle woman already spent staggering sums on useless investigators, but will stop at nothing to find out what happened to a tragic, childhood friend named Laura. With little time left she offers a fortune if Paul's firm can find out. The work has all the signs of another dog walker task, and then Paul discovers his firm's retired founder may hold the clues. But that's Paul's own father, and they're estranged. Worse yet, the old man suffers from Alzheimer's, and the keys to Locke's puzzle seem to be falling away from his crumbling mind. Paul's already fractured relationship with his father gets only worse when he learns of the bond Locke had with her friend, and the touching reasons for her obsession. He begins ignoring rules to find out more, until he reaches a dangerous crossroads. He makes a stunning decision, and starts down a trail of murder and deceit that leads halfway around the world. Within just a few months of getting this ‘dog walking' assignment he'll get his wish for courtroom work-in an ancient Florentine courtroom, no less. But there's a catch: It's the kind of trial most lawyers have nightmares about.
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Sun Burn
Set on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Ibiza, Sun Burn is a steamy thriller which revolves around the island's drug-fuelled club scene. Leaving behind her dead-end life in London, Stacey follows her dancer friend Lucia to Ibiza, finding work in the island's world-famous nightclub Amnesia. Very quickly she and Lucia get drawn into the dangerous underworld after a mistake involving a large consignment of drugs. The girls fall out and Stacey goes it alone in Ibiza's busy West End district until she reconnects with Aaron, a handsome stranger who helped her on her first night on the island. However, Aaron is not all he seems and the mystery over the drugs consignment comes back to haunt them, eventually threatening their lives.
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Thank You Ma'am
Gezirah Du Mortier's life began in tragedy when her mother died while giving birth to her. Little did she know the spiral of events that had been put in motion on that fateful day. Her father, John, a wealthy and powerful man, showed little affection to Gezirah as he held her responsible for his wife's death. He eventually got remarried to the beautiful and sophisticated Anne. But is she all that she seems?Becoming increasingly jealous at how Gezirah is blossoming into a beautiful young woman, Anne plots to have her kidnapped and shipped to America. After arriving in America, terrified and alone, Gezirah is first bought and then forced to marry James Black, a hard and brutal cowboy. She is then taken to his ranch in Arizona.Will Gezirah adapt to her new life or will she try to escape back to her homeland?
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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 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 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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Withstanding
Marcia, an experienced agent of MI6 is head of a specialised annex in Streatham known as ‘The School.’ She is suspicious of the presence and death of an MP on a Worcestershire golf course, miles from Westminster and his constituency in Cheshire.
Following that, three atrocities were perpetrated in one day in Britain with considerable loss of life.
Investigating, Marcia and her co-workers believe there is a plan by a group of international entrepreneurs to cause civil unrest and bring down the government and then replace it with an oligarchy.
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Things We Do for Love
The moment Meg’s closest and only friend was abused and abducted; her mind changed gears.
Alone and physically weakened in a Spanish speaking country, she had to harness who and whatever to fight the overwhelming enemy.
Sacrifices had to be made.
The question is, would that be enough to save her loved ones?
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How to Beat School Bullies
Young Peter High, a studious 15-year-old schoolboy, only wanted to learn. But in late junior school, he found himself mercilessly bullied by a small group of students led by Nathan Whitehawk. Despite many complaints to the Headmaster, Peter quickly realized those in authority were powerless. Whitehawk followed Peter to high school, escalating the torment. After one brutal assault that left Peter stripped naked and without his clothes, he reached his breaking point. On the verge of taking his own life, a mysterious man appeared, befriending Peter. This new confidant revealed himself as a Doctor of the Occult who coached Peter on exacting revenge upon Whitehawk and his gang. Peter proved a quick study, soon acquiring mystical abilities to turn the tables. Before long, a series of uncanny events left Whitehawk’s gang bewildered as the school erupted with laughter. Though transformation came at a cost, Peter found himself empowered to face once unimaginable threats.
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The Gate of the Burnt One
Based on an intriguing alternative history hypothesis, this novel imagines a world where the Moors never left Southern Spain after their 800-year reign but instead expanded their empire across Europe. This fascinating premise is explored through the chaotic lens of a bumbling film crew in the Sahara desert. The director, lost in a haze of Moroccan kif, has embraced the local culture a little too enthusiastically. With the scriptwriters gone and the leading actor in a perpetual sulk inside his Airstream, the production is at a standstill.
Enter Tinctorio Indigolin, a bitcoin billionaire on the run from a Shakespeare-quoting Irish assassin. In a bid to leverage a tax loss, Indigolin acquires the film rights, injecting a new lease of life into the project. Mysteriously, a captivating screenplay begins to appear on set, page by page, night after night. Penned by an enigmatic writer, the script proposes a world where the Moors didn’t just resist expulsion in 1492 but went on to dominate Spain, France, and Italy, creating an Islamic State of Europe.
As the screenplay unfolds, it transforms the lives of everyone involved in the film.
The narrative weaves through a labyrinth of twists, assassinations, and narrow escapes, employing the most unexpected methods, only to culminate in the most uplifting conclusion you’ll encounter this year.
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Waiting
An experimental clinic in Buckinghamshire is suspected of having ties to drug importation from East Africa, facilitated through the Mediterranean island of Gozo, where there are hints of Russian influence and potential money laundering. Hugo Stratton, Marcia, and agents from Britain’s Secret Services delve into these possibilities, while Group Captain Reginald Young investigates the ‘Clinic’ on UK soil. As the plot unfolds, a Russian ‘cell’ operating in Poland is uncovered, leading to the shocking revelation of a long-suspected traitor within the British establishment.
This is the third and final book in a trilogy: Watching, Withstanding, and Waiting.
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