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  Work Like a Charm - A Witches...

  Cate Martin

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  Amanda Clarke knows she’s a witch. She unleashed unstoppable magic to save her friends and catch a murderer. 
  But she only did it the one time. And now? Back to powerlessness. 
  Her friends insist that all she needs is proper training. Sophie wakes her before dawn for meditation and workouts designed to channel magic. Brianna buries her under books, so many books. 
  Amanda longs for a distraction. But when the woman who lives next door to Miss Zenobia Weekes’ Charm School for Exceptional Young Ladies turns up dead, and the murder weapon dates back to Prohibition, she gets more of a distraction than she bargained for. 
  But who in 1927 would want her neighbor dead in 2018? 
  “Work Like a Charm”, Book 2 in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series. This mélange of magic and murder mystery is sure to charm you.

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  Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Louisa May Alcott was born on 29th November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. 
   
  She is most definitely a writer of her own experiences.  Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter who founded, Fruitlands, a utopian community. Although poor, her liberal and progressive parents provided Louisa with much of her education, which was enhanced by many family friends that included Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson, a neighbour whose library she was often found reading in.    
   
  She started writing stories as a way of providing the family with some financial stability. Times were difficult and the effects of poverty were always close at hand.  During the Civil War she went to Washington to be a nurse and became ill with typhoid fever although she continued to write and build her success.  However, the treatment for typhus gave her mercury poisoning which caused further health issues for the rest of her life and eventually contributed to her death.   
   
  Alcott visited her father on his deathbed in Boston. Two days later on 6th March 1888 she also died resulting in a joint funeral.   
   
  Well-loved for her classic ‘Little Women’ she was a superb writer in difficult times for any woman, a strong advocate of women’s issues, the anti-slavery movement, temperance and social reform.    
   
  Her work often reflects on the rich experiences in her life and these poignant short stories are a fine testament to this. Additionally under pseudonyms she wrote dozens of gothic thrillers and sensation stories.  She is also famed for her children’s stories.

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  Unfinished Business

  Leye Adenle

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  Dead pastors. Corrupt government officials. And over 100 million dollars unaccounted for. Amaka is back in this electrifying third instalment in the Amaka Thrillers series.
  
  A frantic phone call interrupts Amaka Mbadiwe's new life in London. A renowned pastor has been assassinated in his hotel room while one of her girls, Funke, hid naked and terrified inside a sofa. Amaka is headed back to Lagos, and to a new world of private jets, money-laundering and mega-churches.
  
  With her trusted ally Police Inspector Ibrahim out of the country, and the hostile Inspector Musa breathing down her neck, Amaka must race against the clock to rescue Funke and untangle this twisted web of religion, power and politics.
  
  With a punishing intensity, full of twists and turns, Unfinished Business oscillates with scandal, corruption and sleaze.

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  PRIMAL Fury

  Jack Silkstone

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  One woman's fight for freedom. One team's mission to deliver justice. 
   
  When a ruthless crime syndicate kidnaps and enslaves beautiful young women, one victim fights back. She manages to enlist the help of PRIMAL, a covert vigilante team that operates where governments fear to tread. 
   
  With cutting-edge technology and razor-sharp combat skills, PRIMAL lays siege to a medieval-era castle, the syndicate's fortress of cruelty. As the notorious Yakuza close in, PRIMAL must confront not only the criminal underworld but also content with one operative's personal vendetta. His need threatens to jeopardize the lives of the entire unit and the prisoners they've sworn to protect. 
   
  In this gripping military thriller, Silkstone explores the depths of human resilience and the lengths one will go to fight for the oppressed. 
   
  PRIMAL Fury is the fourth instalment in the gripping, pulse-pounding PRIMAL Series with page turning action for fans of Bard Thor and Tom Clancy. 
   
   
  But as the team navigates the treacherous mission, one operative's personal vendetta threatens to jeopardize the lives of the entire unit and the prisoners they've sworn to protect.

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  Falling Girl

  R. Allen Chappell

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  An icy chill foretells a harsh winter for the Navajo people—and for perpetually down on his luck Harley Ponyboy the situation grows increasingly desperate. What evil is this that dogs his every step? 
   
   
   
  When a lucky lottery ticket comes his way, Harley uses the new resources to search for a lost love—only to find she has fallen to appalling depths. His stubborn resolve to help puts him on a collision course with her abusive companion . . . and with his own mortality. 
   
   
   
  Fast paced and unflinching, Chappell's knowledge and respect for the Navajo people shines through as listeners welcome back old friends, along with a surprise addition to the Navajo Nation family. 
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  Characters as unforgettable as a New Mexico sunset lead listeners on yet another journey through the color, mystery, and ethereal aura of that land which is the Diné Bikeyah.

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  The Shadow of Memory

  Connie Berry

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  As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century painting and verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium housed much more than priceless art.
  
  Kate is surprised to learn that Will had been the first boyfriend of her friend Vivian Bunn, who hasn’t seen him in fifty-eight years. At a seaside holiday camp over sixty years ago, Will, Vivian, and three other teens broke into an abandoned house where a doctor and his wife had died under bizarre circumstances two years earlier. Now, when a second member of the childhood gang dies unexpectedly—and then a third—it becomes clear that the teens had discovered more in the house than they had realized.
  
  Had Will returned to warn his old love? When Kate makes a shocking connection between a sixty-year-old murder and the long-buried secrets of the sanatorium, she suddenly understands that time is running out for Vivian—and anyone connected to her.

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