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  The Khan

  Saima Mir

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  A once-in-a-generation crime thriller.' A.A.Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness 
   
  'Compelling and gritty.' Cosmopolitan 
   
  'Authentic, immersive and powerful.' Will Dean, author of the Tuva Moodyson mysteries 
   
  Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. 
   
  Jia Khan has always lived like this. 
   
  Successful London lawyer Jia Khan is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father, Akbar Khan, led the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate. Often his Jirga rule – the old way – was violent and bloody, but it was always justice of a kind. 
   
  Now, with her father murdered, Jia must return to take his place. The police have always relied on the Khan to maintain the fragile order of the streets. But a bloody power struggle has broken out among warring communities and nobody is safe. 
   
  Justice needs to be restored, and Jia is about to discover that justice always comes at a cost.

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  Edgar Allan Poe's Detective Stories

  Edgar Allan Poe

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   We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. 
  The Murders in the Rue Morgue 
  The Mystery of Marie Roget 
  The Case of the Purloined Letter 
  The Gold Bug

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  To Be a Spy

  Jessie Clever

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  Samuel Black must make a decision: to be a spy like his father or follow his heart. Either is likely to give his mother chest pains. 
  For Samuel is no longer a lad with the noble wish of being a lamplighter to keep the seedy streets of London safe. About to embark on university, his mind stirs with the thoughts of creating a policing force in London to safeguard its citizens. Daunted by his family’s legacy as spies, Samuel fears making his ideas known. 
  But when he stops a would-be purse-snatcher, his path unexpectedly veers into that of one Miss Penelope Paiget, and suddenly, Samuel must make a choice. 
  To Be a Spy is the first in the fast-paced, thrilling historical romance Spy Series Short Stories and picks up where the gripping, historical romance Spy Series concluded. If you love heart-stopping romance, spellbinding intrigue, and unexpected danger, don’t miss this captivating short story series from bestselling author Jessie Clever. Unlock romance and adventure when you pick up your copy of To Be a Spy today.

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  Original Secrets - A Whispering...

  Shawn McGuire

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  The Northwoods village of Whispering Pines used to be a safe haven for outsiders, but after three deaths in two months, it’s become a hotbed of murder. 
    
  Exhausted from being the only law enforcement official on duty, while also trying to open a bed-and-breakfast, Jayne O’Shea welcomes the escape she finds in her grandmother’s journals. Each entry gives her a deeper understanding of why her grandparents moved to the secluded spot so long ago. But as questions are answered, deeply hidden secrets are unearthed. 
    
  If Jayne can put all the pieces of this puzzle together, she’ll not only learn the truth behind her grandmother’s death, she’ll catch a killer whose been wandering the village for forty years.

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  Where the Wild Roses Grow

  Willow Rose

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  Inspired by a true story! All beauty must die.... With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She silently sank into the slow, flowing river. She was called the Wild Rose. Emma Frost is on a relaxing and romantic vacation in the small town of Enniskerry in Ireland with her boyfriend Morten, when they find a dead woman in the river. The small town of Enniskerry is shocked by this murder, but also by the secrets it threatens to expose. When another woman is found dead in the river with a rose between her teeth, Emma is plunged into a frantic chase for this serial killer, while she and Morten attempt to solve the mysterious riddles of this town’s painful past. The Wild Rose is an old Irish tale of a man courting a woman and killing her while they are out together. No one ever found her body, and as the years passed, her real name could not be remembered, so she was called The Wild Rose. It is what inspired the song by Nick Cave and now also a serial killer in Enniskerry, Ireland. Where the Wild Roses Grow is a pulse-racing mystery laced with terrifying nail-biting tension impossible to stop listening to! If you like a story with nerve-wracking suspense, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love the Queen of Scream Willow Rose’s, breathtaking stand-alone novel.

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  The Phantom

  William Mangieri

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  The Southside Restoration has been keeping Diana busy, but Jimmy knows it’s the phantoms in their past that are driving them apart. Jimmy agrees to act in a theatre production in an effort to draw closer, but a too-coincidental series of accidents won’t let his suspicions rest. Some more immediate phantom from their past is threatening more than their relationship – will Jimmy discover the threat in time? 
  “The Phantom” is a soft-boiled detective novella with some sci-fi and fantasy elements, sort of a The Rockford Files meets The Avengers (the old BBC series, not the superheroes.) It’s the tenth tale in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series.

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