When the body of a missing staff member is found in the early hours on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for teens, DCI Vera Stanhope is assigned the case. The death seems linked to missing 14 year old Chloe, which is unsettling. Vera does not want to believe that a troubled 14 year …
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Alfred, a true Hitchcock fan, has opened a hotel themed after the movies by his favourite director, and it's full of memorabilia and references to films like North By Northwest, The Birds, Vertigo and more. When the hotel reaches it's first anniversary, he decides to invite his former college film studies buddies for a celebration, …
I was very excited to get my hot little hands on the latest volume of the Cesare Aldo series. This is a crime mystery series set in 1500's Florence, and A Divine Fury is the fourth book in the series. (For reviews or more information about the other titles, Ritual Of Fire HERE, The Darkest …
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Judge Belvin Perry Jr was nicknamed the Velvet Hammer during his time as chief judge in Florida, so called because he had the soft ease of velvet in the court room, but also served justice hard like a hammer. In this book, co-written with Amy Mitchell, he talks about his varied life experiences, from growing …
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The interconnected night time lives of different in habitants of Tokyo are explored in this slim book, with each chapter starting at 1AM. Mitsuki works at a movie prop warehouse and has to source loquat fruits in the middle of the night. Kanako works at a 24 hour advice call centre and has a brother …
In 1979, 9 year old Michelle Fortier, the child of a wealthy family, went missing without a trace from her home in a small town in Quebec. Years later, following her failure to launch a podcast about the mystery and start a new life in the city, Stephanie, the daughter of the town drunk, decides …
The new science of how hormones impact every aspect of our health. A lot has been said about hormones and how they can help and heal our bodies, or cause damage, but into all of this has been thrown a lot of pseudo-science and speculation. In this book, Dr Max Nieuwdorp, a University of Amsterdam …
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Coco does not know anyone on Nantucket, when she follows wealthy newcomers the Richardsons to the island where they have just bought a huge house and hired her as a concierge. They are also new in town, and their wild ways and wealth have everyone talking, right up until one night after a party, their …
The new Craig DiLouie is here and this time he's exploring the nature of horror and why we're drawn to these stories. How To Make A Horror Movie and Survive is set in Hollywood in the 80's, where movie director Max has just made Jack The Knife III, the latest in a very successful slasher …
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Conrad the talking calico cat is back, with Lulu, the retired detective. This time, they've taken their canal boat home up to Oxford, for a friend's birthday party in their country mansion, but plans go awry. On arrival, they find an art robbery and a murder have taken place, and they are out of party …
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