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Book Description: Having attended a Murder Mystery evening at Goldsborough Hall, DCI Cyril Bennett returns to the station to find his team involved in a missing persons’ investigation. He is initially perturbed as this area of crime would not normally fall within their jurisdiction.In total, five people have disappeared with no pattern to age nor gender. Bennett… Continue reading Trapped Secrets by Malcolm Hollingdrake @MHollingdrake
Book Description: When you’re meant to be together forever, you want forever to start today. Zoe and Ed were made for each other. After meeting at college and having a whirlwind romance, their lives travel on separate, parallel paths, but always destined to meet. When love does finally strike, Zoe and Ed are sure they… Continue reading Before You Go by Clare Swatman @clareswatman @BoldwoodBooks
Book Description: When hundreds of birds fall from the sky into Slayton's lake in a terrifying freak event, the waters are dredged - revealing a dark, long-held secret.An old pram is pulled from the depths, with the bones of a baby still strapped inside.It's the moment that new mother, Cora, has been dreading since she moved… Continue reading The Bone House (A Slayton Thriller Book 3) by Caroline Mitchell @Caroline_writes @emblabooks
Book Description: She promised not to tell. They made sure she couldn’t…At her surprise 40th birthday party, Kate Granger feels like the luckiest woman in the world but just hours later her fifteen-year-old daughter, Caily, is found unconscious underneath a bridge when she should have been at school. Now, Caily lies comatose in her hospital… Continue reading The Fall by Louise Jensen @Fab_fiction @HQstories
Book Description: You can tell a lot about a person from the library books they borrowLonely library assistant June is much more comfortable with books than people. When her mum - the beloved local librarian - passed away, June stepped into her shoes.But shy June has always felt that she could never live up to… Continue reading The Last Library by Freya Sampson @SampsonF @ZaffreBooks
Book Description: In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up.In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note.They've been dead for several days.Who has been looking after the… Continue reading The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell @lisajewelluk
Book Description: From NY Times best selling author of the Justice series, M A Comley, who has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.A killer with a gruesome agenda.A detective on a mission to prevent the killer from taking more lives.A member of the team in danger whose life is left hanging in the balance.When Hugh… Continue reading Son of the Dead by M.A. Comley @ComleyMel
Book Description: Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure . . .Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly ninety-year-old Veronica make an unlikely pair of friends.Fiercely independent and impeccably dressed, Veronica has lived an incredible 87 years. Most of them alone, in her huge house by the sea. But with the arrival of brave and resilient Daisy… Continue reading Call of the Penguins by Hazel Prior @HazelPriorBooks @TransworldBooks
Book Description: Because Paris is always a good idea... Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children flying the nest, it's time to get it back! So she puts on her best red lipstick, books a cosy attic apartment near… Continue reading Thirty Days in Paris by Veronica Henry @veronica_henry @orionbooks @RandomTTours
Book Description: 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.'Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her… Continue reading The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Freidman and Malcolm Brabent @QuercusBooks
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