Gerard Doyle
1) Bad actors
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Slough House volume 8
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English
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In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster--a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate--has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana...
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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 15
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English
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While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know abouttheir world and those they trust most.
4) Dead lions
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Slough House volume 2
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English
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When a Cold War-era colleague is murdered far from his usual haunts, a team of disgraced MI5 spies under the leadership of Jackson Lamb uncovers secrets that lead to a man who hides his dangerous powers behind a false identity.
5) Spook street
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Slough House volume 4
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English
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"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services...
6) Real tigers
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Slough House volume 3
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English
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When one of their own is kidnapped by a vengeful former soldier, the "slow horses"--disgraced MI5 operatives reassigned to administrative jobs--find themselves back in the game when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very future of MI5 itself.
7) Joe Country
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Slough House volume 6
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English
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"If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process....
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 6
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English
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In the sixth novel to feature Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Tony meets his most twisted adversary to date-a killer with a shopping list of victims, who is unmoved by youth and innocence and driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realizes it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group...
9) Slough house
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Slough House volume 7
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English
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"At Slough House-MI5's London depository for demoted spies-Brexit has taken a toll. The "slow horses" have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House wiped from Service records-and fatal accidents keep happening. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew is feeling paranoid. But are they actually targets? With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's...
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 14
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English
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When an Olympic rowing hopeful and a detective with the Met is found dead in the Thames, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid is submerged in a complex case involving ethical issues that put both his career and reputation on the line.
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It's 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister's arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan's cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the...
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 5
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English
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Confined to a hospital bed after an attack by a mental patient, psychologist and profiler Dr. Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragmentary information that reaches him in the aftermath of two staggering crimes. A star soccer player has been poisoned and, shortly afterward, the local stadium is rocked by a bomb blast, leaving dozens dead and more injured. Meanwhile, his customary ally, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, is being pushed...
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The latest mystery from a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award
Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and he's been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. He's barely managing, but his troubles intensify when the body of one of his parishioners washes up on the coast of Halifax.
Meika Keller came to Canada after escaping past a checkpoint in the Berlin Wall. An army colonel is charged with her murder, and defense lawyer...
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The last roundup (Roddy Doyle) volume 3
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English
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After thirty years in America, Henry Smart returns to his native Ireland in this powerful and moving finale to his story.
The Dead Republic opens in 1951 with Henry returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die — only to be discovered by director John Ford, who recognizes a fellow Irish rebel — a boy volunteer at...
The Dead Republic opens in 1951 with Henry returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die — only to be discovered by director John Ford, who recognizes a fellow Irish rebel — a boy volunteer at...
15) Cross And Burn
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 8
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English
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#1 bestselling author and queen of psychological suspense Val McDermid takes readers on an exhilarating, terrifying journey into the world of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan in her most accomplished thriller to date. Cross and Burn picks up where Val McDermid's #1 bestseller The Retribution left off: following the best crime-fighting team in the U. K. -clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan. Guilt and grief have driven a wedge...
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As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and "peace walls" segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasefire. So, it's as good a time as any for Monty Collins and Father Brennan Burke to visit the city: Monty to do a short gig in a law firm, and Brennan to reconnect with family. And it's a good time for Brennan's cousin Ronan to lay down arms and campaign for election...
17) Charmed life
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 1
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English
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Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.
18) London rules
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Slough House volume 5
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English
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"London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in...
19) The Grim Company
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Grim Company novels volume 1
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English
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The Grim Company, a shoddy band of misfits that includes a crippled Halmage, two orphans, and a manservant, must fight the Magelord Salazar, the Augmentors, the White Lady, and demons in an effort to save the world.
20) Conrad's fate
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.