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The wolf at the door
by Jack Higgins
A new Sean Dillon thriller by this
evergreen author. Someone is attempting to kill the cream of
American and British security advisors. The common factor to all
these assassins is the IRA prayer card in their wallets, and their
Irish associations. But Dillon suspects that behind the incidents
is the shadowy power of the Russian secret service. |
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The lost book
of Salem
by Katherine Howe
The famous 1692 witch trials at Salem continue to
fascinate historians. Harvard postgraduate student Connie Goodwin
is looking for material for her dissertation when she comes across
the key to a physic book owned by her ancestress, Deliverance Dane,
one of the accused women. Was she innocent or guilty? |
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Silent scream
by Lynda La Plante
Glamorous young film star Amanda Delany is found
stabbed to death in her mews house in Belgravia, where she lived
alone. D.I. Anna Travis is given the case, and immediately finds
that Amanda’s beautiful exterior concealed an ugly life of drug
using, promiscuity and a disregard for the feelings of others that
gave many a motive for murder. |
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The heart of the night
by Judith Lennox
Middle
class London girl Kay Garland takes a post as companion to the young
aristocratic Russian émigré Miranda Denisov in the spring of 1936.
When Miranda’s father discovers his daughter has a secret boyfriend,
he sacks Kay, and for some years the girls live widely separate
lives. It is the war that brings the friends together again, and
the book describes their very different experiences. |
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Too many
murders
by Colleen McCullough
Twelve
in one day, to be exact, which is any amount of bodies for any
murder mystery fan. The Australian author of The Thorn Birds makes
a fair fist of an American cop drama featuring her character Captain
Carmine Delmonico. The Captain takes the more interesting cases for
himself – several poisoning victims and the student killed by a bear
trap. |
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Worst case
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwinge
The
teenage children of high profile wealthy New Yorkers are being
kidnapped and killed. The perpetrator first tests their knowledge
about the downtrodden of the world, a test that the first rich kids
he grabs inevitably fail. Then he kidnaps a young girl whose
passion is volunteering to help the poor of the world, and he
releases her when she passes the test. Thus Mike Bennett and his
new sidekick, FBI kidnapping expert Agent Emily Parker, finally
identify the killer and have a chance of stopping him. |
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The other family
by Joanna Trollope
When Richie Rossister suddenly dies of
a heart-attack, he leaves behind him two families. His estranged
but not divorced wife Margaret and her grown-up son in Tynemouth,
and Chrissie with their three teenaged daughters in London. Not
only do the dynamics within each family change with Richie’s death,
but the two families have to communicate with each other for the
first time. |
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