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With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuter's correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens. With little to go on, except her witnessing a savage attack on a prostitute, Connie believes a foreigner is responsible.
2) Wild fire
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Shetland mysteries volume 8
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Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, an English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate, knowing that it will mean the return to the islands of his...
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Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiance, Fran, to his parents. When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair, the islanders react with fear and anger. With no support from the mainland and only Fran to help him, Jimmy has to investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of...
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Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective Pieter Vos disappeared three years ago. Her distraught father's desperate search reveals nothing and results in his departure from the police force. One day, while Vos is wasting time at the Rijksmuseum staring at a doll's house that seems to be connected in some way to the case, Laura Bakker, trainee detective from the provinces, visits him. She's come to tell him that Katja Prins, daughter...
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Roy Grace novels volume 9
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A tie-up burglary at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly lady owner dying and millions stolen in valuables. But, her family tells Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, there is just one item that they are determined to get back above all else. Soon, he finds himself in a race against the clock on a murderous trail across two continents, chasing a killer driven by the power of one man's greed and another man's fury.
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Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Costa, Peroni and Leo Flacone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when, in a museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory, the are faced with the sudden appearance of a shirt with fresh bloodstains belonging to a missing boy.-- Provided by publisher.
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Vera Stanhope novels volume 3
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During a heatwave on the Northumberland coast, Inspector Vera Stanhope investigates two stylized murder scenes, in which the victims have been laid out in water strewn with flowers.
8) Wrong girl
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Pieter Vos is on duty in Amsterdam when the first grenade hits. As Sinterklaas prepares to address the crowds a terrorist outrage grips the heart of the city. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But the abducted child isn't the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. She's the daughter of an impoverished Georgian prostitute. As the security forces and the police clash over the ensuing investigation...
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Vera Stanhope volume 9
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Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope becomes disorientated and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Somewhere a young woman lies dead and Vera knows immediately she has a new case. Could she be the child's mother, and if it...
10) Absolute proof
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What would it take to prove the existence of God? And what would be the consequences? This question and its answer lie at the heart of this thriller from bestselling author Peter James. The false faith of a billionaire evangelist, the life's work of a famous atheist, and the credibility of each of the world's major religions are all under threat.That is if investigative reporter Hunter can survive long enough to present the evidence.
11) The long call
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Two rivers volume 1
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In North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn is back to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets...
12) Left you dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 17
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"Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in Brighton. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day . . . However, most weeks they also end up bickering about something or other. This...
13) Stop them dead
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Roy Grace novels volume 19
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In the dead of night, a farmer hears a suspicious noise. It's everyone's worst nightmare: a break-in. When he confronts the intruders, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left lying in a pool of blood. But the chilling truth lies not in the act itself, but what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace senses something amiss. This is no mere botched robbery; it's the tip...
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Welcome to Fethering! Carole and Jude spring into amateur detective action when their favourite pub is targeted by a killer in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery.
Jude and Carole get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified, and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor.
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15) The rising tide
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Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the...
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Carole Seddon hates Christmas. So when her best friend Jude, drags her along to go shopping at a local store called Gallimaufry, she can feel her inner-Scrooge knocking. But the sales are on and even Carole can't resist a bargain. Then a few days later, Gallimaufry is burned down and a body is discovered in the ashes. With a host of suspects, the lady detectives know they have their work cut out for them in the next installment of the Fethering series....
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Welcome to Fethering! The race is on to find a killer when Jude stumbles across a body at the bookies in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery.
Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole, on the other hand, thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of fellow customer Tadeusz Jankowski after placing a bet, the odds of finding his killer don't look good. No one seems...
18) The heron's cry
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North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though,...
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Welcome to Fethering! Sleuthing neighbours Jude and Carole uncover secrets and lies in the horsing community in this quirky, light-hearted British cozy mystery.
When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening - to meet her unusually horse-shaped new client and his owner Sonia Dalrymple - she does not expect to stumble across a man lying in the darkness. Walter Fleet, co-owner of the stables, has been viciously stabbed to death.
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20) Cold earth
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Shetland mysteries volume 7
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In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide. Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before...
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