Set during WWII, this is the story of a child being sent to America to escape the bombing in London, and how that choice impacts the lives of two families forever. 11 year old Beatrix is sent by boat to Boston in 1940, where she stays with the Gregorys, going from her working class parents …
Darby Kane's latest is the story of two women impacted by a strange, shady organisation of women known as the Foundation. Gabby's ex-husband is found dead of suicide, but she feels certain that it's murder, and Jessa is a divorce lawyer who used to be her friend, but who will do anything to make it …
25 year old Lizzie grew up in the care system and became a social worker, when a work incident pushes her to take a travel break. While away, she has a quick fling, but arrives home to find that the man she slept with has died, and left her a sum of money and a …
When Keith returns to his dying home town in Taiwan, after being released from prison in Germany, his homecoming coincides with the Ghost Festival, when the gates of Hell are opened (as the book describes it). His return brings a lot of ghosts, from the literal ones of family members who have died, to the …
When Natasha and Rob take a holiday to rekindle their failing marriage, they accidentally leave their infant daughters beloved toy cow behind. Back in the Cotsolds, Natasha goes online to try and track it down, and a man called Duffy just happens to have it. But he's on his way to the Himalayas. Duffy promises …
I wanted to be a ballerina for a while when I was a kid. I studied ballet from about 5 years old til I started high school, and though I haven't done ballet since then, I still love it and love to go see ballet whenever I can. Sadly this year I couldn't go see …
"The untold story of the six women who in programmed the world's first modern computer"When Kathy Kleiman came across photographs of the earliest computers, she saw women posed in the pictures. Told that they were just "refrigerator models", posed there just to make the machine look good, she wasn't convinced. Something about them looked professional …
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is the star witness in a polarising case that's creating civil unrest, when the sister of the presiding judge is murdered under strange circumstances. The body shows no sign of physical violence and there are also dead plants, insects and small animals. As Scarpetta begins her investigation, she meets resistance …
Continue reading Livid: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell
At the reunion of an elite school in London, an alumni who is now an MP is killed in the bathrooms and found with cocaine around his nose. Cassie, a former friend and a member of the London police force, finds herself embroiled in the case, not just because she was at the party, but …
I am so excited that Cesare Aldo is back in DV Bishop's latest historical fiction/mystery The Darkest Sin! It's the Spring of 1537 in Florence, and Casare Aldo is sent to investigate a claim that a man has been seen infiltrating a convent in the North of the city. With the many secrets and ambitions …
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