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  Fatal Scores

  Mark de Castrique

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  A river gives up its dead, but not its secrets . . . 
  Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson, private investigators in Asheville, North Carolina, are hired when a local environmentalist dies while monitoring water quality in the nearby Pigeon River. With no soil or water samples found near the body, his widow doesn't believe his death was an accident. 
  In fact, witnesses reported a public altercation between the environmentalist and local mill heir Luke Kirkpatrick just two days prior. Could Luke or his father, Ted, have committed murder to secure their proposed business expansion? Meanwhile, preparations for a local festival suffer violent setbacks, and the investigators worry the events are related. Can Sam and Nakayla identify the killer and serve justice before Asheville is threatened once again? 
  The eighth book featuring Private Investigators Blackman and Robertson, Fatal Scores is a timely mystery perfect for fans private eyes and anyone with a taste for regional history.

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  A Terribly Strange Bed - A man...

  Wilkie Collins

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  Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.  
   
  The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him. 
   
  He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington.  Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances: the school bully would give him no peace until he had been told a bedtime story.  This ‘little brute’ helped create one of England’s greatest writers.  
   
  On leaving school, in 1841, he became a clerk at a tea merchant before, 2 years later, publishing his first short story.  However, his first novel was rejected and remained so during his lifetime.  
   
  A brief stint at Lincoln’s Inn to please his father and to acquire a steady income was halted by his father’s death.  Collins then wrote and published his fathers’ memoirs.  He then completed his legal education though he would never practice.  
   
  In March 1851, he was introduced to Charles Dickens and there now started a period of sustained literary output and a remarkable lifelong friendship.  His stories were published in Dicken’s magazines, and he toured with Dicken’s theatrical before the two of them travelled to the Continent. 
   
  By the early 1860’s worrying signs of ill-health appeared with rheumatic gout.  As it worsened, he sought respite and cures in German spa towns and gave up writing to help his recuperation. 
   
  His personal life had become very complicated.  He was living with the widowed Caroline Graves and conducting an affair with a much younger Martha Rudd.  With the serialised release of ‘The Moonstone’ and vicious attacks of gout Caroline left him and married another.  Collins was now prescribed opium and was soon its lifelong dependent.  Martha bore him two children and with the return of a now divorced Caroline Graves he now divided his time between the two women. 
   
  In 1874 he set aside writing to tour North America on a reading tour. 
   
  Throughout his later years he continued to write and publish.  In all 30 novels, 14 plays, 60 short stories and over a 100 non-fiction essays as well as many more collaborations with Dickens. 
   
  In 1884 the Society of Authors elected him as it’s Vice-President. 
   
  Wilkie Collins died from a paralytic stroke on September 23rd, 1889, in London. He was 65.

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  Happenstance

  Joel Austin

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  A dead friend. A dirty town. And one man who won't back down.Captain Frank Sherman rolls into a dusty Northern California town to visit his oldest friend—only to find him dead and the sheriff's story full of holes.The deeper he digs, the more bodies pile up. Crooked cops. A corrupt sheriff. A town so rotten it's begging to be burned down. And Sherman? He's just the man to light the match.What starts as a simple visit becomes a full-blown reckoning, as a special forces vet turns his skills loose on anyone who stands between him and the truth.Happenstance ignites the Frank Sherman Thrillers series with no-nonsense grit, explosive action, and a hero readers call "Reacher on steroids." If you love relentless justice and a body count that just keeps rising—this is your next obsession.

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  Under A Red Delta Sun

  Sinmisola Ogunyinka

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  In Under a Red Delta Sun, three teenagers fight for survival under the least likely circumstances in a world ruled by evil men. There is 15-year-old Asabi Ajayi, who is so close to getting away from her abusive stepfather; her best friend, and ally, Temly Cole, who suddenly goes missing without a trace; and Fela Peter, whose Christian family treats like an outsider. Alone and afraid, the three must make a daring journey to freedom.

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  A pretty cage is still a...

  Brittany Renee Annis

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  Prepare yourself for an audiobook that will seize your attention from the first word and refuse to let go. This is a masterfully crafted journey into the darkest corners of the human psyche, delivered with a performance that will haunt you long after the final chapter. Every twist is a gut punch, every revelation a gasp. If you're looking for a relentlessly gripping and unforgettable listen, this is it.

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  First Edition Murder

  Tessa Kelly

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  Winner of the 2023 BookFest Award 
   
   
   
  "Tessa Kelly has me hooked! The depth of her characters is amazing and the story is so interesting. I was surprised at the outcome." —Vicki W 
   
   
   
  Something borrowed. Something blue. Someone's dead. 
   
   
   
  For Sandie James, working at her sister's bakery is a way to pay off college debt while her literature degree collects dust. But when she accepts a last-minute wedding booking, she doesn't expect the chaotic night to end in murder. 
   
   
   
  When a guest is found dead, and her father is standing over the body with the murder weapon, Sandie will stop at nothing to prove her dad's innocence. Especially if she can get a little help from Marlowe, the family's springer spaniel, who is all too eager to leap into the action. 
   
   
   
  With rumors breeding fear and the killer still on the loose, it's a race against time to clear Dad's name and find the killer before the killer finds her. 
   
   
   
  If you enjoy the thrilling mystery of Agatha Christie's novels, you'll love this suspenseful, fast-paced cozy mystery.

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