Tag: August_2026
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Ballistic
by Frank Gardner MI6 operative Luke Carlton returns in his most exciting and unnervingly up-to-the-minute mission yet . . . this is the new edge-of-your-seat spy thriller from the bestselling author. In the dying light of an Arctic afternoon a monstrous black shape slips beneath the waters of Murmansk bay. Murmansk in the Arctic Circle…
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Invitation From A Dictator
by Rory Clements ON THE EVE OF WAR, A ROYAL GUEST IS LURED INTO HITLER’S DEADLY WEB . . . Munich, 1937. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have arrived in Germany for a historic meeting at Hitler’s mountain retreat. But recent attacks by ruthless Communist band, Red Freedom, has brought fear and bloodshed to…
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Kin
by Tayari Jones A yearning for their missing mothers pulls Vernice and Annie apart. It will take a devastating tragedy to bring them back together. Vernice and Annie are ‘cradle friends’, born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know their mothers. The girls are inseparable, bound by a friendship far deeper than…
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Death Writ Large
by Susie Dent A mysterious letter. A silenced scholar. A city paved with injustice. When mysterious symbols appear as graffiti around Oxford, lexicographer Martha Thornhill recognises them from an alphabet created by a deceased writer whose papers she once worked on. But this is no publicity stunt, and tensions intensify when further graffiti is found…
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The Country Road Murders
by James Patterson & Mike Lupica Cross Rivers is the kind of small town where everyone knows your name – and your secrets. Silas Tucker was destined for glory until a devastating accident brought him back to the place where his life fell apart. His father was gunned down on a deserted country road when…
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Who Pays The Piper
by Pam Keevil Who is the young man found floating in the river? The only key to his identity is a small tattoo on the wrist. Is it a case of suicide, a tragic accident or a suspicious death? When the victim is linked to a nearby eco-commune, the wealthy aristocrat who funds the place…
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Mad Mabel
by Sally Hepworth YOU CAN CHANGEYOUR NAME.BUT YOU CAN’TCHANGE YOUR PAST . . . Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick lives a quiet life in the suburbs. Few would guess that Elsie, aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, harbours a secret she’s worked hard to bury. Because when it comes to murder, no one…
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Icarus 17
by Charles Cumming Lachlan Kite should have left fieldwork behind by now. As director of covert intelligence agency Box 88, he’s at the apex of his espionage career. But when Martha Raine – a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty years – begs for his help, Kite finds himself back in the game, racing to…
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May We Feed The King
by Rebecca Perry She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur. He is…
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One Final Turn
by Ashley Weaver The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs.Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin…