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  Before She Said I Do

  H.K. Christie

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  She came home to celebrate. She never made it to the front door. 
  Zoey Monroe planned to surprise her mother, PI Martina Monroe, with one final Friday movie night before her wedding—a cherished tradition since childhood. But after landing in the Bay Area, Zoey vanishes without a trace. Her phone goes dark. And Zoey is gone. 
  Desperate for answers, her panicked fiancé turns to Zoey’s stepsister, Selena. When the search yields nothing, Martina springs into action, rallying her team, the local police, and her former cold case partner, now-retired Detective August Hirsch. 
  It quickly becomes clear—this was no random abduction. It was sophisticated. Calculated. Personal. 
  As Martina and Hirsch dig into old case files, hunting for anyone with a score to settle, a shocking twist throws the investigation off course: the kidnappers finally make contact—but not with Martina or the police. The message is delivered to Zoey’s future mother-in-law. 
  What secrets are the Ashfords hiding? And could they be the key to bringing Zoey home—or sealing her fate? 
  With the wedding day fast approaching and time running out, Martina races to untangle a deadly web of past sins and buried truths. But the deeper she digs, the more one thing becomes clear: This wasn’t about Zoey. This was revenge. 
  A gripping psychological crime thriller perfect for fans of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Mary Stone.

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  The Streets - The Gangland...

  Jacqui Rose

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  The Streets is a hard-hitting gangland thriller from the bestselling author Jacqui Rose.Ten years ago, Jo Martin was released from prison after serving twelve years of a life sentence. She is now out on license – and she isn’t Jo anymore. Given a new identity by the courts, and with a different appearance, a ready-made history and even a change of age, Jo can pretend to be anyone . . .Cookie Mackenzie, is not only Ned Reid’s lover, but she also works for him. She supplies the girls – and boys – for Ned’s clients. There’s always some runaway kid who needs shelter.Natalie Ellis works at Barney’s bar. A fierce and loyal friend, she’s a shoulder to cry on, a listening ear – but should everyone really trust her to keep their secrets?Lorni Duncan needs to keep running, always looking over her shoulder, especially with a young child in tow. But how will she survive? The refuges are full, and the last thing Lorni needs is the authorities getting involved. Who is she trying to escape from?Everyone has something to hide and a lot to lose, but which of them did Jo become?

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  The Fatal Scroll - A Herculaneum...

  Eric Siblin

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  Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient Rome or perhaps an ancient recipe for personal tranquility, but it’s unreadable unless Marcus can figure out a way to unroll the scroll without destroying it. His quest takes him to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead. Marcus is interviewed by an investigative journalist, Kristi Grainger, and they find themselves on parallel paths leading to a Neapolitan trafficker in antiquities, a tech mogul obsessed with the distant past, and a clutch of academics searching for the lost library of Herculaneum. In a seaside city that is by turns lush and lethal, Marcus must confront the unraveling of more than a scroll.
  		 
  This novel is inspired by a real place — the Villa dei Papri, the only library from antiquity to have survived — and coincides with the Vesuvius Challenge, a real-life international competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls.

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  Wolf Bells - A Novel

  Leni Zumas

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  The acclaimed author of Red Clocks returns with a biting, lyrical novel about an intergenerational group home run by an ex-musician determined to make a place for those without one On a bluff above a river rises The House, where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who help out in exchange for free rent. The community is led by a former punk singer who never wanted to be responsible for anyone yet now finds herself the caretaker of this precarious collection of lives. It’s not a family, exactly, but it’s got the complicated, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious, dynamics of kinship. When two kids—Nola and her little cousin James—show up on The House’s back porch in need of refuge, the whole experiment is thrown into question. All are welcome here, or that was the idea. But the authorities are looking for these children, and The House’s finances are teetering on the edge.  Zumas’s long-anticipated third novel wrestles with America’s crisis of care in a taut, aching, polyphonic tale that moves as fast as the crackling comebacks that fly between The House’s residents over breakfast. As the rules of the outside world start to press in on this safe haven, readers will find themselves asking, what would the world look like if everyone had a place to belong?

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  Hallum

  Casey Morales

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  Double Gold Medal winner in the 2024 Global Book Awards & BookFest international book awards competitions  . . .  
   
   
   
  Captured or killed? Only the War knows. 
   
   
   
  Will Shaw and his friends are typical college students, enjoying dances and parties without much care for life beyond. When Thomas, a handsome Naval officer and newly arrived student, nearly stumbles into Will and his friends, Will's heart spins, though he doesn't understand why. Sparks of something new burst within, opening his eyes to possibilities he'd never dreamed. 
   
   
   
  In the giddy fog of a forbidden courtship and the safety of the campus bubble, the world's troubles seem far away. Until they aren't. German tanks roll through Europe, while Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. There's no safe place left to hide. 
   
   
   
  Compelled to do their part, young people enlist in record numbers. Will and his friends join the queue. But instead of a bus headed to basic training, Will is thrust into the world of shadows and secrets. 
   
   
   
  Of Shadows & Secrets is a slow-burn MM Romance wrapped in a thriller, a series that sets up many grand adventures to come. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Ingenious Mind of Rigby...

  Mr Punch

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  Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour. 
    
  Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective is lured to Stratford upon Avon following an explosion by a band of determined suffragettes.  Faced with the ingenious mind of Mr Rigby Lacksome, Max and his trusty servant Parkinson must solve the riddle of the missing body of William Shakespeare 
    
  “In no other play will you hear that Shakespeare went by train from Stratford-upon-Avon to Paddington. Not all of the Bard though. Just his bones... In Sue Rodwell's enjoyable dramatisation, everybody including a cockney manservant, quotes Shakespeare at the drop of a hat.”  The Times 
    
  “Good News... Simon Callow stars as the blind detective, Max Carrados, Lionel Jeffries as his servant and ‘eyes’, Parkinson.”  Sunday Times – Gillian Reynolds Choice 
    
  “Atmospheric and Great Fun.” Daily Express  
    
  Also available as part of the THRILLER PLAYHOUSE BOX SET, eight episodes featuring Max Carrados, Norman Conquest and Ben from the popular BBC Drama series.  
    
  Cast 
  Simon Callow as Max Carrados 
  Lionel Jeffries as Parkinson 
  Stephen Tompkinson as Rigby Lacksome 
  Lynsey Baxter as Moya 
  Oona Benson as Maisie 
  Deidra Morris as Miss Poppington 
  Ian Armstrong as Lost Property Man 
  Robert Oates as Doctor 
  & full supporting cast. 
    
  © & ℗ 2022 Mr Punch Audiobooks Ltd

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