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  Hunted - The heart-pounding...

  Anonym

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  She can run, but she can’t hide...Bailey Morgan is being HUNTED. 
  Someone is out to murder Detective Constable Bailey Morgan before she can testify in an upcoming trial.Using her undercover skills, Bailey embarks on a dangerous mission to help the police catch this elusive killer before it’s too late. But it won’t be easy for she’s up against a cunning and ruthless adversary who will stop at nothing to eliminate her.A tense game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to a shocking revelation at the heart of which lies the key to Bailey’s survival.

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  Murder at the Garden Party - A...

  Sonia Parin

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  Long buried secrets come back to create havoc in a small village 
   
   
   
  Lady Woodridge and Tom Winchester offer the new Lady Evans their support during her first foray into local society. To their surprise, Evie's reputation as a lady detective has preceded her and she is engaged to solve the mystery of a theft. 
   
   
   
  Finding the culprit is easy enough and while, at first, the theft is dismissed as a callous act, it seems the person responsible might be involved in a more serious crime. 
   
   
   
  When a woman is found dead, Evie's attention turns to the people who have the most to lose. It looks like more than one of them is keeping a secret and revealing it could unravel their lives. 
   
   
   
  Meanwhile, back at Halton House . . .

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  The Short Stories of Franz Kafka...

  Franz Kafka

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  Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. 
   
  Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering entrepreneur of a father.   
   
  In 1889 Kafka was sent to the Deutsche Knabenschule, an elementary school in Prague. His father would only allow him to be educated in German-speaking schools and even went so far as to limit visits to the synagogue to four a year. 
   
  In 1901 he graduated from the classics-oriented Altstädter Gymnasium. Kafka did well there and across a large range of subjects.  He now enrolled at the Charles Ferdinand University, to study chemistry, but quickly switched to law for which he obtained his degree in June 1906 and then performed the mandatory year of unpaid service as clerk at the civil and criminal courts. 
   
  A job at an Italian insurance company left him little time to write and after a year he took another job with the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia where he stayed until ill health led to his resignation in 1922. 
   
  Although he saw work as a means to pay the bills and to allow him time to write, he received several promotions and was noted as a good employee. 
   
  By 1917 Kafka was suffering from tuberculosis, which required frequent periods of convalescence. Interspersed with this, were several intense affairs before he settled in Berlin with Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher who herself having left the ghetto now influenced Kafka's interest in the book of Jewish law, the Talmud. 
   
  Kafka’s on-going health was littered with problems. Apart from TB there were several other ailments, including migraines, insomnia, boils, depression, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains. He attempted to counteract all of this by naturopathic treatments, a vegetarian diet and consuming large quantities of unpasteurized milk. 
   
  His tuberculosis still worsened. He returned to Prague, where he died on 3rd June 1924. He was 40. 
   
  His literary works are few in number but towering in influence.  His masterpieces include ‘The Trial’, ‘The Metamorphosis’ as well as a number of short stories which reveal facets of humankind that truthfully could only be born from Kafka’s brain and pen. 
  01 - Franz Kafka - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  03 - Before the Law by Franz Kafka 
  04 - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka 
  05 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

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  From Southampton to New York...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roger...

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  From Southampton to New York: The famous master detective Sherlock Holmes and his medical counterpart Doctor Watson have barely tended to the wounds from their last case when the next adventure already awaits them. What was actually intended as relaxation in the middle of the open Atlantic becomes a 'working trip' for Holmes and Watson with much investigative work. Two masters of criminal history on the high seas bound for America.

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  The Surgeon’s Mirror

  Unrepeatable Beauty, Lena Elisabet

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  The Surgeon’s Mirror 
  by Unrepeatable Beauty 
  Not every scar fades. 
  Not every healing is complete. 
  And not every “thank you” tells the whole story. 
  In The Surgeon’s Mirror, we meet Dr. Emil—a traveling surgeon who does not settle for stars or silence. He asks for truth. He invites his patients to reflect—not just on the results, but on the journey. Through parallel feedback forms, shared reflections, and quiet conversations, he learns what most surgeons never hear: 
  – “I’m grateful, but I wish I’d waited.” 
  – “The care was kind, but the recovery was brutal.” 
  – “I love the result, but I miss who I was.” 
  This is not a book about perfection. 
  It is a book about honesty. 
  For surgeons, it is a reckoning. 
  For patients, a release. 
  For readers, a mirror. 
  Come closer. 
  You are allowed to speak freely. 
  You are already whole. 
  And soon, you’ll see why.

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  The Beach Babes - A Seashell...

  Judith Keim

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  Old friends are the best… 
  Catherine “Cate” Tibbs, Brooke Ridley, and Amber Anderson, friends since they were awkward thirteen-year-olds who named themselves “The Beach Babes,” are about to face their 40th birthdays. Because they haven’t been able to get together for some time, Cate arranges for them to rent a house along the Gulf Coast of Florida for a long weekend. She hopes it will give them the opportunity to celebrate and re-ignite their friendship. Cate, an author trying to finish a book, doesn’t know that Amber, a model, and Brooke, the mother of a boy in college and younger twin girls, are as worried about their own futures as she. Together, the three women support one another as they each face a crisis in her life, proving once again the strength of women’s friendships. 
  Another of Judith Keim’s series books celebrating love and families, strong women meeting challenges, and clean women’s fiction with a touch of romance—beach reads for all ages with a touch of humor, satisfying twists, and happy endings. Be sure to check out her other delightful books and series that readers adore.

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