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 …
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 …
Detective Roy Grace looks into a cold case of an art dealer with financial worries who was bludgeoned outside his home, while at the same time, a local couple find a painting at a flea market that Antiques Roadshow tells them may be worth millions, setting off a train of events in their lives. This …
A new Vera Stanhope mystery is here! After a bonding exercise/trip away in high school, a group of friends meet every five years on the island where the retreat was held, and where one of their number died in an accident. Now fifty years have past and the group are in their late 60's, meeting …
In a boarding school in Norfolk, UK, the wealthy son of local gentry, who also happens to be the school bully, is murdered. The school hopes it will all blow over, a young boy fears for his safety, and others are hiding secrets that will soon come to light. On the case is a detective …
Continue reading The Murders At Fleat House by Lucinda Riley
Alia is sent to Dehli to live with her grandparents and go to an expensive school, where she manages to catch the eye of Sabah and Noor, the cool girls, who are impressed she is from London . She wants so much to be a part of their shiny friendship. But something goes horribly wrong. …
When Paul Pringle got a tip about an overdose at a fancy hotel and the involvement of a medical man, he thought the story would be a quick one to complete. But the man at the hotel was Dean of Medicine at USC, Carmen Puliafito, and the University had it's fingers in a lot of …
Continue reading Bad City: Peril and power in the city of Angels by Paul Pringle
Rilke is an auctioneer in Glasgow, and attending a friends wedding when he's given a friendly tip about an upcoming estate sale. When the man who gave him the tip turns up dead the next day, the police dismiss is as another overdose by a man living a "risky lifestyle" (aka, gay), but Rilke can't …
Norway. In 2003, Liv is a troubled young woman who lives with two friends in a flatshare, when she falls in love with a snake. In 2017, Mariam, a successful business woman, leaves her 11 year old daughter at the store as punishment for a fight over a comic book. When the little girl fails …
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