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  Murder Sky High - The DCI Gawn...

  Linda Hagan

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  After a plane passenger fails to reach his destination alive, DCI Gawn Girvin must once again chase a dragon 
   
  When pathology reports that a passenger found dead on arrival on a flight from Amsterdam to Belfast passed due to natural causes, it should be an open and shut case for the police. 
   
  But detective Gawn Girvin, adept at smelling a rat, digs deeper and discovers that far from being clear cut, the man’s death is indeed suspicious. 
   
  After interviewing his fellow passengers, and shaking lose inconsistencies in their stories, she heads to the Netherlands intent on nailing the killer. 
   
  Yet despite teaming up with her counterpart in Holland, rather than solving the mystery she soon has another murder on her hands. 
   
  Gawn must see through the smoky haze of the Dutch capital to pinpoint exactly who is playing a deadly game. 
   
  MURDER SKY HIGH is the second book by Linda Hagan, featuring headstrong sleuth Gawn Girvin. It can be enjoyed entirely on its own, or alongside the first, THE PERFUME KILLER.

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  The Dragons of Ederstill

  Christopher Benner

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  Calarela grows up having to be the provider for her family. She gets some money and food from her hunting, but every day is still a struggle to be able to put enough food on the table. 
  When her father dies, she gets to see a dragon for the first time, and from that moment on, she dreams about becoming a Dragon Trainer. 
  The problem is that as a female, she is not allowed to become a Dragon Trainer despite the fact that she has a knack for working with the dragons, and years of experience in the woods learning how to survive. 
  To be able to help feed her family, she goes into the service of the King for one year. This year is marked by a simple gold earring. She can't help but dream, that she will be able to replace the small, round, gold earring that serves as a reminder of her service to the King with a dragon earring marking her transition into the role of a Dragon Trainer. 
  When the dragons disappear following the Festival of Peace, she is left alone to take care of the dragons that remain while the others go on their search for the missing dragons. Little does she know that there is someone who is working to get the dragons for himself, and she is standing in his way. 
  She must battle a plague that quickly spreads through the dragons by herself which leads her to go to the dark side of the planet to get the answer. Frightened, and often alone, she must do what she knows to be right, instead of waiting to see what she is allowed to do.

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  Killer Insight - A Kaitlyn Kruse...

  Karoline Anderson

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  When a missing person's case becomes a hunt for an active serial killer, Detective Kaitlyn Kruse must use her greatest asset: a supernatural ability to remember her past lives. But the killer may be closer to home than she's willing to believe. 
   
   
   
  When a local woman's body is found in a shallow grave on one of Seattle's pristine hiking trails, Detective Kaitlyn Kruse and her partner Joe Riley are under pressure to find her killer as swiftly as possible. But more than one body is recovered at the site, and—alarmingly—they all look a bit like Kaitlyn. 
   
    
   
  Fortunately, Kaitlyn has a secret weapon. She dreams of her past lives, and their memories are always eager to help her solve the crime at hand. But Kaitlyn's dreams are getting more desperate every night, like one of her past selves is trying to tell her something . . . and a shady black sedan is tracking her every move. It may be too late to stop the inevitable—but Kaitlyn is determined to get justice for the dead before she becomes one of them. In this rousing crime debut with a touch of the supernatural, the first in her Detective Kaitlyn Kruse series, Karoline Anderson proves she's got a knack for the thrill.

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  The Autobiography of My Mother -...

  Jamaica Kincaid

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  Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry. 
   
   
   
  Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. 
   
   
   
  Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack LaBatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and motherlessness.

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  The Tomb

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Title: The Tomb 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1917 (first published 1922) 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 26 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Tomb by H. P. Lovecraft is a tale of ancestral obsession, forbidden curiosity, and the thin veil separating memory from madness. It follows Jervas Dudley, a solitary dreamer fascinated by an ancient mausoleum belonging to the long-dead Hyde family. Drawn by an irresistible pull, he becomes consumed by the mystery of the tomb — and by the eerie sense that his destiny is entwined with the dead within. 
  Through Lovecraft’s early mastery of gothic atmosphere and psychological unease, The Tomb explores themes of hereditary memory, morbid fixation, and the haunting persistence of the past. What begins as mere curiosity descends into a dreamlike horror, where identity and sanity unravel among the shadows of the grave. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance evokes the dark romanticism and creeping dread of Lovecraft’s vision — a descent into the spectral corridors of the mind. While the text resides in the public domain, this narration is an original work and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to reviving the classic works of horror and the uncanny, The Tomb bridges gothic tradition and cosmic dread — a haunting meditation on the lure of the past and the peril of those who cannot let the dead rest. 
  Listeners should prepare for a story where fascination becomes fate, where dreams trespass upon death, and where the past itself refuses to stay buried.

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  Wendy's Winter Gift - A totally...

  Debbie Viggiano

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  Everyone has secrets but some are bigger than others. 
   
  Wendy Walker can count on two fingers the number of birthdays until she’s fifty. She can also count on six hands the number of years she’s been married to controlling Derek. Whatever happened to the boy she used to lark around with in the back of a Ford Escort? Just like Derek’s hairline, that lad has gone. 
   
  Wendy yearns for freedom but is resigned to her lot. After all, there are others to think about. Like daughter Ruby who – as a teenage single mum still at home – needs supporting, especially since abandoning her hopes of being on Love Island and achieving fame as a reality star. 
   
  But secrets dare to spill at the most inopportune moments. 
   
  Ruby is nurturing a mystery romance that she frets about her mother discovering, while Derek finds himself under the spotlight in the most disastrous of circumstances. 
   
  But just when Wendy thinks her world is falling apart, she discovers that sometimes unexpected joy is just around life’s corner…

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