Published By: Lake UnionPages: 303Released On: 01/01/2025 In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England to seek a navigable route across the top of the Americas. He and his 128 men never returned. Four years later, Royal Navy Lieutenant Frederick Robinson and Assistant Surgeon Edward Adams are determined to find theContinue reading “Bitter Passage – Colin Mills”
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A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage – Asia Mackay
Published By: WildfirePages: 400Released On: 14/01/2025 Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re ex-serial killers. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to kill. Not many power couples know how to get away with murder. Then HazelContinue reading “A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage – Asia Mackay”
In Want Of a Suspect – Tirzah Price
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 352Released On: 05/12/2024 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that London’s first female solicitor in possession of the details of a deadly crime, must be in want of a suspect. The tenacious Lizzie Bennet has earned her place at Longbourn, her father’s law firm. Her work keeps her busy, but luckily itContinue reading “In Want Of a Suspect – Tirzah Price”
The Lost Past of Billy McQueen – Neil Alexander
Published By: Embla BooksPages: 304Released On: 01/12/2024 The past has never left Billy. It’s just been waiting for him to come and find it…It’s been over thirty years since Billy last called Northern Ireland home. Back then, his secret love for schoolfriend Conor was the only shining light that kept him going during troubled times.Continue reading “The Lost Past of Billy McQueen – Neil Alexander”
The Silver-Haired Sisterhood – Judy Leigh
Published By: BoldwoodPages: 344Released On: 02/12/2024 ‘We’re celebrating life,’ Rose said. ‘Life, every single minute of it. Tell me, girls – is there ever anything better to celebrate than that?’ Five years after seventy-something Tess jetted off to Paris with her best friends, Jen, Rose, Della and Pam – the Five French Hens – forContinue reading “The Silver-Haired Sisterhood – Judy Leigh”
The Ice Retreat – Ruth Kelly
Published By: PanPages: 400Released On: 21/11/2024 HEALER?Meet Hollie Jenson, presenter of the smash-hit docu-series Bad Medicine, which exposes the perils of extreme therapies. Her next target: a new retreat run by wellness guru Ariel Rose, who claims to have discovered the secret to healing pain through her three-day ice rebirth treatment. LIAR?Acting on a mother’sContinue reading “The Ice Retreat – Ruth Kelly”
City of Silk – Glennis Virgo
Published By: Allison & BusbyPages: 352Released On: 21/11/2024 Justice in sixteenth-century Bologna is like the fine silk which the city produces: something only the rich and powerful can afford. Elena Morandi is a supremely talented seamstress, at home among the bolts of fabric and cutting shears of her trade. However, she is determined that herContinue reading “City of Silk – Glennis Virgo”
Escape For Christmas – Phillipa Ashley
Published By: PenguinPages: 400Released On: 07/11/2024 Sophie used to adore everything about Christmas. Hot chocolate and velvet bows, fairy lights and mince pies. Until the December her fiancé jilted her. Since then, Sophie opened Sunnyside Hotel, a quaint guesthouse nestled deep in the Cumbrian countryside. And, though it might be winter at Sunnyside, it’s neverContinue reading “Escape For Christmas – Phillipa Ashley”
Brightly Shining – Ingvild Rishøi
Published By: Grove PressPages: 192Released On: 19/11/2024Translated By: Caroline Waight Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa’s dreamer of a father is out of work again. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job at a Christmas tree stand near where the family lives in central Oslo, she thinks it might be theContinue reading “Brightly Shining – Ingvild Rishøi”
The Christmas Stocking Murders – Denzil Meyrick
Published By: BantamPages: 432Released On: 07/11/2024 A case shrouded in secrets.It’s just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in the remote village of Uthley’s Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a stocking wound tight round his throat. A festive mystery for one and all.Hundreds ofContinue reading “The Christmas Stocking Murders – Denzil Meyrick”