Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
A deliciously dark and powerful novel about secrets, lies and risking it all, that will have you hooked from the first page
For the ultimate betrayal, will they pay the ultimate price?
Felix Cramer has it all: a glittering career as a bestselling author, fame, money, and a devoted wife, Elizabeth. But what he desperately craves is excitement, usually in the form of extravagant affairs. Gripped by the feeling that his best days are behind him, Felix...
Author
Language
English
Description
Manchester's Bowie Boys confront a dark secret
Fifteen years ago Jake Powell was hustling on the fringes of Manchester's gay Village: running wild with a crowd of rentboys, purse-snatchers and disco trash; sleeping with anyone and everything. Now he's the boss of a smart West End casino. But, inside, he's living a life fogged by regret.
When Detective Inspector Davey Green takes a sudden and unexpected interest in his past, Jake is forced to confront...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This flaming historical adventure, book seven in the Matthew Quinton Journals, is perfect for fans of C. S. Forester
London is burning, but who set the fire? In the weeks leading up to the Great Fire of 1666, Matthew Quinton, master of the H.M.S. Sceptre, is sent into the heart of London, seething with foreign plots and political paranoia, on a dangerous mission: to stop a terrorist ring from destroying the capital.
Quinton is the only man that...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Who do you turn to when there's no one left to trust? Epic sea battles and treasonous betrayals…
In the heat of a gigantic battle against the Dutch, the English fleet is mysteriously divided. A large portion of their resources is sent to meet a French threat which never materialises. Thousands are slaughtered. Could there be a traitor in the Royal Navy?
As popular fury erupts, Captain Matthew Quinton is given the unenviable task of uncovering...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Corsairs, gold and sabotage off the coast of Africa… Naval adventure perfect for fans of Julian Stockwin and John Drake
1663: Captain Matthew Quinton is thrilled to capture a corsair from under the nose of menacing Maltese Knight Montnoir. But his triumph is short lived. The 'pirate' is in fact the infamous Irish adventurer O'Dwyer, who comes with talk of a vast West African gold mine...
Ordered by the avaricious King Charles to accompany O'Dwyer...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Secret missions on the cold North Seas…
Winter, 1666. England is again at war with the Dutch, and Matthew Quinton is once more called to serve his King.
On a mission to the Swedish court, he must secure crucial support in the war against Sweden's old enemy, the Dutch Republic. He is accompanied by the mysterious Lord Conisborough, who, unbeknownst to Quinton, has a secret mission involving the notorious regicide John Bale, the man who signed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Joe Hunter has been Marked for Death in his most explosive outing to date. It should be a routine job. Joe Hunter and his associates are hired to provide security for an elite event in Miami. Wear a tux, stay professional, job done. But things go wrong. Hunter is drawn into what appears to be a domestic altercation. When he crosses the mysterious Mikhail however, he soon finds something altogether more sinister…Before long this chance encounter...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this emotional novel, a woman hoping to make amends for her past returns home to learn no one wants her there-and her mother no longer remembers her.
How far would you go to make amends?
When Emma fled her home at Foxglove Farm, she'd let down and hurt those who cared for her most. But now, two years later, she's ready to face up to her past; she's ready to go back.
But Emma's unannounced return causes more problems than she could have...
10) Jello Salad
Author
Language
English
Description
A dangerously moreish mix of Tarantino violence and Almodóvar camp
They're opening a new restaurant in Soho tonight. Susan Ball's the owner, and she's funding the joint with the money she ripped off from her gangster husband, Frank 'Ballistic' Ball.
Hogie's the cook. He's from Manchester and his long blond locks have made him a natural TV chef. The trouble is, he's also a screaming pervert.
Cheb's the Maitre D. He's just back from Goa and he might...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What price justice?
Jack Kowalski is a young barrister who finds himself working on the biggest drugs trial in British history. He argues a savage 'cut-throat' defence – a risky tactic where the defendants blame each other.
As the son of Polish immigrants Kowalski has always found it hard to fit in, with a sense of inferiority denting his performances in Court. Now he must face his demons and fight not only for his clients, but also for his future.
When...
12) Other Women
Author
Language
English
Description
Sophie thought she and Jonah were happy, bringing up their small daughter, until one summer's day, she discovers that Jonah is far from the man she thought he was. Sam - an attractive English teacher - seems to offer her some comfort, and new friendships are a support.
But is Sam really who he says he is? Where have her new friends appeared from? Is anyone telling the truth? As Jonah's lies threaten Sophie and her daughter, can anyone be trusted?...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two desperate criminals. Something she never saw coming. A searing suspense thriller from bestselling author Nick Louth
In Manchester, two hardened gang members on the run take Catherine Blake and her one-year-old son hostage at gunpoint. She is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Held in a Transit van, Catherine needs a plan fast. But it means diving into her captors' risk-drenched world, and playing them at their own game.
Catherine has been...
Author
Language
English
Description
A search for the world's most sacred relic leads to a desperate race for survival in the international bestselling author's "utterly spellbinding" series (Euro Crime, on The First Apostle). Detective Chris Bronson and museum historian Angela Lewis are on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant. Their search has brought them all the way to Ethiopia, but now it looks like their luck is running out. Until, that is, a new avenue springs open in southern...
15) Bonaparte's Sons
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A fallen aristocrat must prove himself in the furnace of Napoleon's army...
1795: Confusion and fear reign in the French Republic. With her troops facing starvation and annihilation on three fronts, France is killing her patriots.
Alain Lausard, an aristocrat whose family were massacred in The Terror, rots in prison. But in a desperate move to save the Italian campaign, now commanded by a young Napoleon Bonaparte, the Directory enlists condemned...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An exhausted Grand Armeé must battle both foe and elements in this thrilling historical adventure Poland 1807: As the Grand Armeé continues its march ever eastwards, Napoleon faces his most difficult challenge to date… Sergeant Alain Lausard and his loyal dragoons have never known a campaign like it. Anything but fresh from their victory over Frederick's Prussian forces, Napoleon orders his men onwards into Poland, and headfirst into battle with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Napoleon's mighty army face the inferno of the Egyptian desert in this thrilling historical adventure
Seventeen thousand French troops leave Toulon harbour in May 1798 unaware of their ultimate destination. Barely three months after taking Rome, Napoleon Bonaparte has rewarded his finest regiments with a place among the Army of the Orient, bound for Egypt.
Alain Lausard, along with his cavalry unit are on board the frigate L'Esperance. Their first...
18) Operation XD
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Eddie Dawson returns in his most explosive outing yet-a World War II thriller based on true events from the author of Right and Glory and To Do or Die.
If an officer wants to talk, something's usually wrong. Plucked from his unit, Eddie Dawson knows trouble awaits.
The Netherlands is under Nazi invasion from land and sea. Amsterdam is besieged. But the Nazis aren't interested only in conquest; they want the enormous Dutch oil reserves...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lausaurd must prevent a plot against Napoleon himself in this thrilling historical adventure. It is September 1803, and the uneasy peace between Bonaparte's France and his great rivals looks ever more precarious. The English are suspicious that Napoleon's motive for signing the treaty of Amiens was to buy time to mobilise his forces – and they were right. 200,000 soldiers are arriving on the French coast, readying for invasion. Amongst them is Alain...
Author
Language
English
Description
A strange note sends a desperate mother searching for her daughter ten years after her disappearance in this heart-stopping thriller debut.
On the tenth anniversary of her daughter Autumn's abduction, Francine receives an anonymous note containing just five words: I KNOW WHERE SHE IS.
When a young woman approaches her the next day claiming to have sent the letter, Francine wants to dismiss it as a cruel, twisted joke. But the stranger knows things...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request