When James Taylor was in school, he and his two best friends were known as the Three Musketeers because they were inseparable, but as they grew up, they also grew apart. As the novel opens, James is at Barnie's funeral, thinking that his friend didn't turn out so well and he's only attending for old …
Continue reading One Of Us Is Dead (Roy Grace #21) by Peter James
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 …
Continue reading The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #11)
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, …
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 …
Set in London in the 90's, Ordinary Human Failings is the story of Carmel and her family, Irish immigrants whose youngest member, 10 year old Lucy, has been involved in the death of a neighbors 3 year old on their housing estate. Tom, an ambitious and amoral reporter, hopes to exploit the story of the …
Freya Lockwood was an antique hunter twenty years ago, finding stolen artifacts and returning them to their rightful owners, but a tragedy made her leave that life behind. Now, her once mentor has been killed and he's left a trail of clues in his antique store leading her to an retreat at a mansion in …
Continue reading The Antique Hunter’s Guide To Murder by C L Miller
Blackthorn Ashes was a housing estate near Cornwall, overlooking the sea, but due to poor planning, six weeks after they moved into their new builds, six people died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The whole estate had to be abandoned and sits empty, with people's things still inside, just the way they left them on evacuation. …
Set in the mid-90's on the stand up circuit, a trio of comedians set off on a tour of smaller comedy clubs in Canada. Dale is an old hand at the job who needs some extra cash, Rynn is an ingenue from Ireland with a big future ahead of her, and Hobie is their driver, …
English former movie star Lana invited her friends to her private Greek island each year to escape the long, dark British Winter. Elliot, our narrator and her closest friend, tells the story of the last trip to the island, where a murder takes place during a furious gale that cuts them off from civilization. He …
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
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