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  Dressed to Kill

  Peter Cheyney

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  Mario Zona, owner of the Silver Ring night club, was frightened. He thought he was going to be killed, so he called Rufus Gaunt, a private investigator. 
  Meralda Grey, the beautiful night club singer; her fiancé Michel Lorimer; Zona's secretary Wolfe Lanel and the pretty cigarette girl Geraldine are all involved in this vintage Peter Cheyney story of murder in London's West End. 
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  During the short period of fifteen years Peter Cheyney managed to write more than thirty books. Resulting in sales which run into millions of copies.  
  Cheyney's stories are about the grim, the slick, the seductive and the amusing – just true to life as Cheyney knew it. You will find plenty of strong meat, well spiced with humour in good measure. Detectives, gamesters, thieves, and hard-living beauties makes a glorious story of excitement, humour, suspense, crossing and double-crossing.

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  Shadow's Captive

  Mary Stone, Lori Rhodes

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  Want a puppy, little girl? 
  Former FBI agent Rebecca West came to Shadow Island to relax and clear her head, not step into a dead sheriff’s long worn shoes. Here she is, though, Interim Sheriff over a small department grieving for their boss and friend. 
  But not for long. 
  Before she can resign from the unwanted position, a little girl goes missing. On vacation with her parents, the eight-year-old was last seen outside her family’s vacation rental drawing on the sidewalk with a box of chalk. 
  Now she’s gone. 
  Did the girl wander off and get lost or maybe pulled out by the tide? Was she lured away? Or has she become the victim of something more sinister on Shadow Island, where a darkness simmers just below the paradisiacal surface? 
  When Rebecca discovers two similar abductions nearby within the week, she fears the worst. With a lot of ground to cover, few deputies to help, and the events surrounding Sheriff Wallace’s death haunting them all, can Rebecca and her team find the young girls before it’s too late? 
  From the gripping beginning to the startling conclusion, Shadow’s Captive—the second book in the Shadow Island Series by Mary Stone and Lori Rhodes—will ensure you always know where your children are.

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  The Case of the Missing Lady

  Agatha Christie

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  When a six-foot-tall tan giant of man comes into Albert Blunt's International Detective agency, Tommy and Tuppence—married couple and detective aficionados—are in for a treat. Not only has Mr. Stavansson emerged after a two-year Arctic adventure, but he's lost his fiancée Hermione too. What telegrams and scraps of information Tommy and Tuppence can gather are all the hope the adventurer has in finding her. But this information leads the duo into dangerous situations, investigating secluded country houses in the dead of night, and that's only the start of it….

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  Tales From The Village

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  TALES FROM THE VILLAGEby Quentin Drummond Anderson 
  POWER. TRADITION. SECRETS. CHANGE. 
  In Trenton Stable, a picturesque English village, centuries of history and hidden truths lie beneath the surface. Behind manicured hedges, a battle unfolds between preservation and progress. 
  Edward Sherston, eighth-generation squire, faces unprecedented challenges to his ordered world. Through eleven interconnected stories, witness his evolution as power shifts beneath his feet. 
  From "The Family Pew," where a ghostly presence signals unfinished business, to "The Carol's Echo," where a newcomer reveals buried connections, Anderson explores community power with precision. 
  Supernatural elements embody suppressed histories: an amber brooch granting longevity, impossible roses, ancient boundary stones revealed during a hunt. 
  When traditions are challenged—from carnival queen selection to development plans—Edward must decide if stewardship means control or embracing change. 
  Anderson's crystalline prose captures both village details and psychological complexities. His dialogue brilliantly conveys the English art of saying one thing while meaning another. 
  The village emerges as the most compelling character—a living entity with an identity beyond any individual's control. 
  For readers of rural British fiction, these stories examine how community structures are maintained, challenged, and transformed, bringing contemporary sensibility to countryside novels. 
  These tales will haunt—not merely through supernatural elements, but through insights into how power shapes lives and how established hierarchies contain seeds of transformation. 
  Available March 2025 from The Writers Collective Hardcover | eBook | Audiobook

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  You Made Me Do It To Her -...

  Tamara L Adams

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  Terry has a good life—or so it seems. A steady job, a comfortable home, and a loyal wife, Stacey. But beneath the surface, the marriage is unraveling. A bossy pregnant wife, fears of life unlived and a hot new co-worker cause a rift between the once in love couple. Terry gives into his desires but is racked with guilt and desperate to deflect suspicion, he begins projecting his own betrayal onto Stacey, convinced she’s the one being unfaithful. Terry's once perfect life turns into a living nightmare that is of his own making. 
  You Made Me Do This To Her is a fast paced, psychological thriller exploring the deadly cost of secrets, manipulation, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive..

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  Kenyatta's Last Hit

  Donald Goines

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  "The voice of the ghetto itself." —The Village Voice 
   
   
   
  The godfather of urban lit is back with the graphic, thrilling conclusion to Kenyatta's quest to reclaim his streets . . . 
   
   
   
  For Kenyatta, the living urban legend, the war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his army, he's ready to take down the drug pushers destroying his. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he faces off with his arch enemy in a brutal showdown in Vegas, high atop a glittering hotel. One bullet, one hit, one survivor—winner takes all . . . 
   
   
   
  "He lived by the code of the streets and his books vividly recreated the street jungle and its predators." —New Jersey Voice

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