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  After Dark

  Wilkie Collins

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  After Dark is a captivating collection of short stories by Wilkie Collins, one of the pioneers of mystery and sensation fiction. First published in 1856, this work showcases Collins's mastery of suspense, psychological tension, and intricate storytelling that would later define his most famous novels.
  
  Framed by a unique narrative device, the stories are told to cure a young woman's insomnia, with each tale unfolding after nightfall. As the evenings progress, readers are drawn into a series of gripping narratives filled with secrets, moral dilemmas, unexpected twists, and moments of quiet terror. The collection includes the celebrated novella "The Queen of Hearts," a story that blends romance, intrigue, and social commentary with remarkable emotional depth.
  
  Collins explores themes of love, betrayal, justice, and the hidden darkness beneath respectable Victorian society. His characters are vividly drawn, often caught between conscience and desire, while his plots skillfully balance realism with melodrama. The atmospheric settings and carefully constructed suspense reflect Collins's talent for revealing how ordinary lives can be disrupted by extraordinary circumstances.
  
  After Dark stands as an early and influential work in the development of detective and mystery fiction. Elegant, tense, and psychologically rich, it offers modern readers a compelling glimpse into the origins of the sensation novel and remains essential reading for fans of classic mysteries, Victorian literature, and masterful storytelling.

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  Matricide

  Jennifer Burke

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  Baiae, 59 AD. 
  Aemilius Valerius promised Junius Atreus a holiday, and what better place to take one than the glittering resort town of Baiae, as famous for its hot springs and ocean views as it is for its drunken debauchery and moral decay? Not that Valerius and Atreus have time to enjoy any of that, because a young patrician woman is murdered and they are tasked to find her killer. 
  Between weird cults, underground grottos, dinners with the emperor, and the chaos of Mad Uncle Maro in party planner mode, it’s a race against time for Valerius and Atreus. Not only do they have a murder to solve, but Nero’s mother, Agrippina, is also coming to Baiae—she hates Valerius, and she’s killed better men than him before breakfast. 
  What happens in Baiae doesn’t stay in Baiae. What happens in Baiae is going to change the course of an empire, whether Valerius and Atreus survive it or not.

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  Dead Water - A Cornish Crime...

  Berrick Ford

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  It’s Tamsyn Poldhu’s first day as a police constable in her home town of Penzance in Cornwall. She already knows that life can be cruel, but she has no idea how tough it’s going to be. 
  Detective Inspector Rob Rego has just transferred to the coastal southwest from Greater Manchester Police, and he gets seasick just looking at a boat. 
  When a body washes up on a remote Cornish beach, Tamsyn’s involvement in the case goes deeper than she could ever have imagined.

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  Incel

  Lori A. Witt

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  Walker & Arruda, Book 1Detective Damian Arruda thought his partner was just too distraught to accept his wife’s murder as a random act of violence. Then the devastated widower got too close to the truth, and now Damian is grieving his best friend. As his conscience threatens to eat him alive, he’ll stop at nothing to find the killer.Special Agent Melissa Walker’s partner met a violent end as well, and his death is almost certainly connected. When she joins forces with Damian, the investigation takes them into the vile underbelly of the Internet: the incel community and its toxic forums full of misogynists who consider themselves “involuntarily celibate” and feed off each other’s vitriol and hatred.As the pieces come together, there’s no denying the three deaths and the poisonous, cultlike community are part of a wave of murders, grisly assaults, and bombings. Damian and Melissa are running out of time to take the killers down before more innocent people fall victim—and before someone decides that one victim at a time isn’t enough.

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  The Knock - An explosive...

  Jessie Keane

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  A young woman finds herself on the wrong side of the law in The Knock, a gripping gangland thriller from top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane.Dora O’Brien had a good start in life, but things went bad when she began to mix with the wrong company. Pregnant by her gangster lover, she found herself on the streets and then in the grips of a bent copper called Donny Maguire.When her daughter Angel is born, Dora is already under the influence of drink and drugs, and handed around to Donny’s mates. Growing up in the shadow of her mother’s abusive relationship, Angel is nothing like her mother, but when matters turn murderous, Angel is forced to grow up fast and survival becomes the name of the game.For some, being on the wrong side of the law is the safest place to be . . . No one uncovers the underworld like Jessie Keane.

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  Maisie Dobbs

  Jacqueline Winspear

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  Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household whenshe was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan’s  
  friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. 
   
  The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found—and lost—an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her  
  own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something different. 
   
  In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving  
  The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade.

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