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      • Fiction
        March 2016

        A Coin for the Hangman

        by Ralph Spurrier

        Booksellers never know what they might find in an estate sale. When our man finds the tools of England’s last hangman, along with the diary of a man he executed, he knows he has a mystery to solve. Was there a miscarriage of justice? Did the wrong man die at the noose? And just who is telling the truth?  A mystery that has readers guessing to the very last page.

      • Fiction

        Oracle

        by Julie Anderson

        Justice will be done, but what kind of justice? High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, near the ancient Temple of Apollo, a group of young idealists protest against the despoiling of the planet outside a European governmental conference. Inside, corporate business lobbyists mingle with lawmakers, seeking profit and influence. Then the charismatic leader of the protest goes missing.The next day the body of a local woman is discovered in a temple building, placed like an offering to the old gods. Attending the conference Cassandra Fortune, civil servant, former GCHQ investigator and envoy of the British Prime Minister, is co-opted onto the case by the Professor, a senior Greek politician. She is to work alongside Ministerial Security Chief Iraklidis and local policeman Alex Ganas, who are soon joined by Major Lykaios from regional police headquarters. But the police do not trust each other, each fearing that the others are members of a banned, right-wing organisation, Golden Dawn. And they see no reason to trust Cassie.Only a day later another corpse is found, bloodied and broken, at the foot of the cliffs which tower above the Temple, from which blasphemers once were cast. At the behest of the Professor Cassie and her interpreter, Helena, begin questioning the conference goers and quickly discover that some have their own, hidden agendas and reasons to deceive.As a storm closes in, strange lights are seen on the mountain.Cassie, meanwhile, believes that someone is stalking her, watching her every move. She is followed on the lonely walk to the conference centre at midnight and high above the Corycian Cave, inhabited since the Bronze Age, show signs of more recent occupation. Who is the walker in the mountain mist?When an avalanche isolates the conference centre and all power is cut, preventing communication with the outside world, it is up to Cassie and the others to find the killer. Are primal forces reaching out from the past and will the ancient and brutal Furies claim their blood vengeance? Or will the forces of law discover the key lies in a tangled, modern web of tragedy and guilt as relentless and fatal as in any Greek drama. Like the famously cryptic Oracle of Delphi, Cassandra Fortune must provide answers before the conference ends, or fail in her first mission for the Prime Minister. And Cassie herself has her own furies, or demons, to face.When the characters in the drama transfer to Athens where the public inquiry into the deaths takes place, the stage is set to reveal a story of youthful rebellion, desire and betrayal and there are further surprises in store for Cassie.Oracle is about justice, from the brutal, archaic form of blood vengeance prevalent in early human societies to modern systems of law and jurisprudence, set in the context of a democracy. This is the law and equality under the law which allows democracy to thrive and underpins the freedoms and safeguards for individuals within it. The story is interlinked with Greece's past, as the ancient cradle of democracy and source of many of western ideas of government, but also to its more recent and violent past of military strongmen and authoritarianism in the twentieth century.Oracle also considers, in the form of a crime thriller, the politicisation of the police and the justice system and how that will undermine justice, especially following the banning of Golden Dawn, the now criminal organisation which wrapped itself in the mantle of politics. It touches on the new academic discipline of zemiology, the study of 'crime' through the prism of the harm it does to people, especially those without power.

      • Fiction
        May 2022

        CHOCOLATE BURNOUT

        Chocolate 4 Life

        by Emunah La-Paz

        Chantel Reed is a successful human resources professional in Seattle who has a hard time with relationships. She has drifted from her friends Astrid and Serenity after the death of their friend Alison; her oldest sister, Daria, the family’s maternal figure, is prickly and controlling; and she finally breaks up with her slacker boyfriend, Cameron, after she finds him cooking dinner for another woman in her apartment. Astrid and Serenity have different ideas about how Chantel should move on after the breakup. Chantel, who has always dated black men, is initially hesitant when Brandon, a white guy, asks her out. She quickly falls for him, and they come close to marriage despite push back from her family and racism from his. But when Brandon and Daria ask an attractive black man to test Chantel’s loyalty, her trust in everyone is shattered. Chantel enters a self-destructive spiral that wreaks havoc on her professional and personal lives in search of the history behind broken relationships past and pressent, within her secrative family. Emunah La-Paz brings this cast of characters to life on the page, with each one somehow more memorable than the last. They bring to light a comment on interracial relationships that is just as enjoyable to read as it is poignant. An intro to the prequel.  Featuring Chocolate Recipe and upcoming chocolate website from the characters. Redvelvetseattle.com

      • Fiction

        Le Coquelicot - Poppy Flower

        by Pavlo Matyusha

        After the breakout of war on the East of Ukraine, a young financialmanager is getting ready to leave his country, not able to live through theloss of love of his life However, he stays to join the PresidentialAdministration on the proposal of his childhood friend, another financierwho returned from Frankfurt to support the new political leadership Ajourney begins, full of aspirations to help the country but also deliria of thepast and conspiracy on the highest level The protagonist finds himselflocked in the world where wolves in sheep’s clothing get out hunting Willhe succeed to understand who is who while reassembling himself to begina new life?

      • Fiction

        The crying Man

        Die Zeit der Vergeltung

        by Jando / Christopher Groß

        Nach dem Tod seiner Familie durch einen rechtsradikalen Attentäter, verschwindet Tom auf einer Hallig in Norddeutschland im Untergrund. Von dort aus operiert er mit Jimmy Blue und China die Einsätze gegen die Hintermänner des verurteilen Mörder seiner Familie. Um nicht erkannt zu werden legt er sich eine Tränenmaske für seine Missionen zu. Schnell wird er zu einem stilisierten Helden der Medien und der Bevölkerung. Sie geben ihn den Namen: „Crying Man“. Nacheinander schaltet er die Gruppe von Neo- Nazis und Reichsbürgern aus und entdeckt dabei, dass die wahren Strippenzieher ganz oben in der Regierung und der Polizei sitzen. Durch den mächtigen Apparat der Regierung kommen sie Toms wahrer Identität immer näher und sein Team gerät selbst in große Gefahr. Wird Tom es schaffen die Machenschaften rechtzeitig aufzuklären, oder steht das Ende des „Crying Man“ bevor?

      • Fiction
        September 2015

        The Man from Hamburg

        The Vatican Conspiracy

        by Heinz-Joachim Simon

        "This story blows up the Vatican ...",  the Hamburg attorney Dieter Prätorius notes, when his friend, the Hamburg investigator Serge Christiansen dictates the Vatikan protocol. Christiansen is on the trail to reveal one of the greatest mystery of the Catholic Church. He is commissioned to find a disappeared Padre, who has dedicated himself to the mission of thwarting the machinations of the Vatican Bank. The man from Hamburg encounters the conspiracy of a fascist secret society, the Mafia and reactionary courier cardinals ... together with the Vatican Bank.   When John Paul I becomes pope, the world hopes for a reformation of the Church. However, he dies in office under mysterious circumstances after only 33 days. The man from Hamburg becomes the feared opponent of the wire-pullers behind the scenes. But the mafia has already sent a killer to Rome. Can Christiansen help justice to victory and unmask the murderer?   A thriller as mysterious and frightening as the catacombs.

      • Fiction
        March 2022

        THE FACES OF THE APOCALYPSE

        by GIOVANNI MAGISTRELLI

        The life of Inspector Rigoberta "Ribe" Daverio is shocked when her mother Anna is killed during an attempted robbery gone wrong. Three years later, Ribe is no longer a member of the Police and makes a living as a private eye in Milan. Commissioner Stefano Sanna, then her superior and now her occasional lover, asks her to investigate in an unofficial way on a murder happened in the surroundings of the city: an esteemed psychologist was found dead with a message left on his naked and torn body, a passage taken from the Book of Revelation of the apostle John. Starting from this clue, Ribe Daverio will enter step by step into a reality where evil is a palpable presence, composed of different shades that swirl around a single word: Apocalypse.

      • Fiction
        March 2020

        Perdition's Child

        by Anne Coates

        Dulwich library is the scene of a baffling murder, followed swiftly by another in Manchester, the victims linked by nothing other than their Australian nationality. Police dismiss the idea of a serial killer, but journalist Hannah Weybridge isn't convinced. She is drawn into an investigation in which more Australian men are killed as they try to trace their British families. Her research reveals past horrors and present sadness, and loss linked to children who went missing after the Second World War. Have those children returned now? Once again Hannah finds herself embroiled in a deadly mystery, a mystery complicated by the murder of Harry Peters; the brother of Lucy, one of the residents of Cardboard City she had become friendly with. It soon becomes clear Lucy is protecting secrets of her own. What is Lucy's link to the murders and can Hannah discover the truth before the killer strikes again? Anne Coates gripping thriller is the perfect read for fans of Emma Tallon, K.L.Slater and Laura Marshall.

      • Fiction

        Blue Room Hotel

        by Roberto Monti

        The mayor of Tap Town, Jasmine Brune, issues a special decree that prohibits the use of paper and ink and favors digital publishing, now the only legalized medium. As it always occurs, there come those who, under cover of darkness, continue to write on paper, though it is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Among them, Billy Ray is the smartest and most uncatchable of all. To eliminate paper writers once for all, the police chief, Philipe Gore, organizes roundups everywhere. Several paper writers are found killed and something connects them to the most famous hotel in town: the Blue Room Hotel. Preface by author Barbara Sarri. ---  Il sindaco di Tap Town, Jasmine Brune, con un emendamento speciale, proibisce l’utilizzo di carta e inchiostro a favore della pubblicazione digitale, unico mezzo legalizzato.Come per ogni cosa, nell’oscurità vi è sempre chi, in modo clandestino, continua a scrivere sulla carta, sempre più difficile da reperire.Fra questi, Billy Ray è il più astuto e irraggiungibile di tutti.Per debellare definitivamente gli scrittori di cartacei, il capo della polizia, Philipe Gore, organizza rastrellamenti ovunque per sequestrare tutti i libri cartacei presenti in città riuscendo ad impedire anche l’importazione dai centri abitati limitrofi.Oltre all’azione della polizia, diversi scrittori di cartacei vengono trovati uccisi e qualcosa li lega al più famoso albergo della città, il Blue Room Hotel, all'interno del quale vi è una misteriosa camera: la Stanza 14.Quando anche la morte di Billy Ray sopraggiunge, conseguenze oscure per il destino dei libri e della carta prendono a materializzarsi.Un noir che sfocia nel giallo, dal ritmo coinvolgente e dalle atmosfere cupe, dove i bassifondi la fanno da padrone, dove solo chi è invisibile riesce a sopravvivere.

      • Fiction
        October 2020

        Spare The Heir

        by Meta Valentic

        Forget the Sexiest Man Alive. Prince James is the Sexiest Spare Alive, having just married beautiful, mixed-race former actress Emma in a blockbuster wedding. The younger brother in the famed Lacy dynasty, James outran the classic curse of the spare by becoming half of the most beautiful power couple on earth. Prince James and Princess Emma have it all: looks, style, and a burning desire to use their considerable platform to change the world. Which makes them entirely too hot for the Palace to handle.   Prince Chester is the dull, dutiful heir to the British throne. When James’s celebrity starts to eclipse his own, he helps engineer a campaign to run James and Emma out of London. And it works. The couple flee the intense press attacks, institutional racism, and toxic family drama for a better life in Toronto. They spend a year launching a global charitable foundation and more importantly, living life on their own terms. They are never coming back.   Then, a call from the Palace changes everything in an instant.   Her Majesty has an urgent message: Prince Chester has disappeared. Desperate to keep the news under wraps, James and Chester’s mother Queen Cordelia summons them back to London to help find Chester and distract the press with their presence. James and Emma find themselves playing detective while getting pulled back into the Palace life they desperately wanted to escape. The sooner they track down the wayward heir, the sooner they can get back to their real lives. But The Firm is still dysfunctional and Chester does not want to be found. Facing the possibility of having to rejoin Royal life, the couple battle the Palace while playing detective with their staff and a reluctant investigator from Scotland Yard. Chester’s disappearance plunges James and Emma into a mystery that will send the couple on an unexpected journey of discovery. What they find is both shocking and liberating...and will change the Monarchy forever.

      • Fiction
        February 2018

        Eye of the Moon

        by Ivan Obolensky

        Built upon the fabric of the author’s background as a member of the 1%, yet woven from whole cloth, Eye of the Moon is an enchanting web of multigenerational intrigue, secret love affairs, sumptuous black- and white-tie dinner parties, potential murders, Egyptian occultism, vicious curses, unexpected magic, and secrets that break, or reshape, lives. It is peopled by characters like Russian dolls, with shocking elements revealed in layers over the five-day house party in Rhinebeck. Though the opening chapters are perhaps benign, readers and reviewers alike rave that they become ensnared in the story and can’t put the novel down, even if it means they burn their dinner or stay up to 4 am. Percy, the narrator, begins as someone raised on the fringes of the elite, quasi-abandoned by his traveling parents. He is abruptly reunited with his pseudo-brother and pulled into his hijinks. They stumble upon the dark story of Johnny's Aunt Alice, the legendary socialite who had died mysteriously twenty years earlier. Her letters and journals bring a more sinister world to the light and the two men dive headlong into the shadows. This inadvertently involves everyone at the estate, including the butler, Stanley, who was the only confidante of Alice with hidden knowledge of what happened behind closed doors before her death. She still lives in the places lit with magic, her narrative woven tightly with Percy’s. What will be the cost of revealing the truth? Where does Percy ultimately belong?

      • Fiction
        March 2021

        The Takers and Keepers

        by Ivan Pope

        Where do the disappeared go? The girls and women who vanish, sometimes never to resurface. Allen Kimbo, a freelance journalist, thinks there is a circle of keepers – men who guard their taken. An email invites Allen to Belgrade, to a meeting of the Takers and Keepers. Allen’s girlfriend Emily pleads with him not to go, but he believes he can uncover more about this network. In Belgrade, Allen sees more than he had thought possible. However, back at home Emily is missing. 60,000 words

      • Fiction
        October 2020

        The West House

        by Erik Dussere

        When Kese, just out of college, starts his summer job in a small New England town, he finds himself trying to unravel a mystery. Charlotte West, rich and imperious, has been baffling the locals since she arrived in the town more than twenty years ago. Does she have a dark past—or is she just an excuse for Kese to indulge an obsession, or to avoid the encroaching boredom of his days? His investigation takes him back through the history of the town and of America itself, with its borders of class and race and bloodline. A work of literary fiction with an American mystery at its center, The West House is about the traumatic pasts that haunt the book’s characters, and about the stories that it is possible for us to tell about those pasts, those hauntings.

      • Fiction
        October 2019

        Monk

        by Chris Parker

        Dan Brown meets Andy McNab in Chris Parker's gripping new thriller series. Early in its history, the Roman Catholic Church established a secret sect of elite spies and killers tasked with protecting the Church, its secrets and its treasures - the Mystiko Kataskopos, shortened to the MK. Members of the MK are, to this day, contemplative monks highly trained in both mystical practises and spying and assassination. They do whatever the Church demands. One such mystical assassin is Raphael Ward and he is secretly charged with tracing the 'real' version of the legendary Turin Shroud, unbeknownst to the world to have been stolen by the Nazis in WWII. As Raphael pursues new leads and deciphers the code that will lead to the Shroud, his mission forces him to engage with the world's darkest, most violent underbelly. As he faces threats to his life - and threatens those of others - he begins to question the very faith that has sustained and driven him for so long. Monk is a compelling, clever and page turning thriller in the best traditions of Dan Brown and Michael Byrnes.

      • Crime & mystery
        July 2020

        Turn to Dust

        A Detective Kay Hunter murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        When the body of a naked man is found in the middle of a barren field, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.   Discovering that someone is offering money in return for information about the dead man and anyone connected to him, Detective Kay Hunter realises there is a dark side to the victim’s past.   When a key witness disappears and a web of deceit and lies threatens to derail the investigation, she fears the worst.   Can Kay and her team of detectives find out who is behind the man’s murder before another victim is targeted?   Turn to Dust is the ninth book in the Detective Kay Hunter series by USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett, and perfect for readers who love fast-paced murder mysteries.   Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/kay-hunter-series/turn-to-dust/

      • Crime & mystery
        March 2020

        None the Wiser

        A Detective Mark Turpin murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        What if some secrets were never meant to stay buried?   When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.   New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer who shows no remorse for his victim, and leaves no trace behind.   After a second priest is killed, his broken body bearing similar ritualistic abuse, the police are confronted by a horrifying truth – there is a serial killer at large with a disturbing vendetta.   As fear grips the once tranquil countryside, Mark and his team race to uncover a tangle of dark secrets and lies before the killer strikes again. In doing so, Mark finds out that the truth is more twisted than he could ever have imagined…   None the Wiser is the first book in a new murder mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.   Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/detective-mark-turpin-crime-novels/none-the-wiser/

      • Crime & mystery
        October 2020

        Her Final Hour

        A Detective Mark Turpin murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        What if the perfect friend was hiding a deadly secret?   When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning’s training ride, the local racing community is shocked to its core.   Everyone says she was the perfect friend, the perfect daughter and the perfect fiancée.   However as Detective Mark Turpin delves into the girl’s fateful last hours, he discovers a past full of lies and mystery. Investigating the truth behind her savage death, Mark uncovers jealousy and ambition within the tiny community, accompanied by a disturbing reluctance to help the police.   When another death takes place only days later, Mark realises he is running out of time to stop a killer who will do anything to keep a dark secret hidden...   Her Final Hour is the second book in a new murder mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.   Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/detective-mark-turpin-crime-novels/her-final-hour/

      • Crime & mystery
        December 2016

        Scared to Death

        A Detective Kay Hunter murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        "If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully."   When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong.   But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the ransom money still in his possession. When a second schoolgirl is taken, Kay’s worst fears are realised.   With her career in jeopardy and desperate to conceal a disturbing secret, Kay’s hunt for the killer becomes a race against time before he claims another life.   For the killer, the game has only just begun…   Scared to Death is a gripping fast paced murder mystery from author Rachel Amphlett, in a series introducing Kay Hunter – a detective with a hidden past and an uncertain future...   Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/kay-hunter-series/scared-to-death/

      • Crime & mystery
        April 2017

        Will to Live

        A Detective Kay Hunter murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        Your next journey could be your last...    When a packed commuter train runs over a body on a stretch of track known to locals as ‘Suicide Mile’, it soon transpires that the man was a victim of a calculated murder.   As the investigation evolves and a pattern of murders is uncovered, Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter realises the railway’s recent reputation may be the work of a brutal serial killer.   With a backlog of cold cases to investigate and attempting to uncover who is behind a professional vendetta against her, Kay must keep one step ahead of both the killer and her own adversaries.   When a second murder takes place within a week of the first, she realises the killer’s timetable has changed, and she’s running out of time to stop him…   Will to Live is the second book in a thrilling police procedural series featuring Kay Hunter – a detective with a hidden past and an uncertain future...   Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/kay-hunter-series/will-to-live/

      • Crime & mystery
        June 2017

        One to Watch

        A Detective Kay Hunter murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        Sophie Whittaker shared a terrifying secret. Hours later, she was dead. Detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are shocked by the vicious murder of a teenage girl at a private party in the Kentish countryside. A tangled web of dark secrets is exposed as twisted motives point to a history of greed and corruption within the tight-knit community. Confronted by a growing number of suspects and her own enemies who are waging a vendetta against her, Kay makes a shocking discovery that will make her question her trust in everyone she knows. One to Watch is a gripping murder mystery, and the third in the Detective Kay Hunter series. Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/kay-hunter-series/one-to-watch/

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