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  Damn Straight

  Elizabeth Sims

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  After her narrow brush with death in Holy Hell, you'd think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down, but when a friend in crisis calls from California, Lillian jumps on a plane and wings her way from Detroit to Palm Springs—and danger. 
   
   
   
  It's the long weekend of the Dinah Shore golf tournament, one of the top women's sporting events in the world, when thousands of women descend on the desert and take over. At a pre-championship party, Lillian leaps into a romance with a top LPGA star. 
   
   
   
  But her superstar athlete has a secret: Someone is quietly terrorizing her. Lillian, eager to help, goes undercover as a high-profile reporter, an unhinged nun, and a professional caddie while uncovering layer after disturbing layer of the golfer's past. 
   
   
   
  Finally, with violence erupting at every turn, Lillian uncovers her lover's ultimate horrifying secret—and it is not at all what she had guessed. With this book, Elizabeth Sims presents another nail-biting thriller featuring her oh-so-human amateur detective. Damn Straight crackles and zings and will have you laughing through your shivers.

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  The Fairy Tale of Fr Brown - A...

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Despite his prosaic appearance and generally practical walk of life, Father Brown was not without a certain streak of romance in his composition, though he generally kept his daydreams to himself, as many children do. Amid the brisk, bright colours of such a day, and in the heraldic framework of such a town, he did feel rather as if he had entered a fairy tale. He took a childish pleasure, as a younger brother might, in the formidable sword-stick which Flambeau always flung as he walked, and which now stood upright beside his tall mug of Munich. Nay, in his sleepy irresponsibility, he even found himself eyeing the knobbed and clumsy head of his own shabby umbrella, with some faint memories of the ogre's club in a coloured toy-book. But he never composed anything in the form of fiction, unless it be the tale that follows:

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  Dark Mode

  Ashley Kalagian-Blunt

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLEY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION 
   
  SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA FOR GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 
   
  SHORTLISTED FOR THE DANGER AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION 
   
  Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide. Is it paranoia – or is someone watching? 
   
  For years, Reagan Carsen has kept her life offline. No socials. No internet presence. No photos. Safe.  
  Until the day she stumbles on a shocking murder in a Sydney laneway. The victim looks just like her.  
  Coincidence?  
   
  As more murders shake the city and she’s increasingly drawn out from hiding, Reagan is forced to confront her greatest fear. 
   
  She’s been found.  
   
  A riveting psychological thriller drawn from true events, Dark Mode delves into the terrifying reality of the dark web, and the price we pay for surrendering our privacy one click at a time. 
   
  ‘Thrilling and twisty – get ready to be paranoid’ J.P. Pomare, author of The Wrong Woman 
   
  ‘Absolutely terrifying! I turned every page with my heart in my mouth, utterly hooked by this explosive thriller. Ashley Kalagian Blunt taps into the dangers we face online every day and the monsters in our midst. Dark Mode is a powerful and disturbing story which will keep you thinking long after you’ve finished reading.’ Petronella McGovern, author of The Liars

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  Between A Wok and a Dead Place

  Leslie Budewitz

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  Pepper Reece, owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market, loves a good festival, especially one serving up tasty treats. So what could be more fun than a food walk in the city's Chinatown—International District? 
   
   
   
  But when her friend Roxanne stumbles across a man's body in the Gold Rush, a long-closed residential hotel, questions leap out. Who was he? What was he doing in the dust-encrusted herbal pharmacy in the hotel's basement? Why was the pharmacy closed up—and why are the owners so reluctant to talk? 
   
   
   
  With each new discovery, Pepper finds herself asking new questions and facing more brick walls. 
   
   
   
  Then questions arise about Roxanne and her relationship to Pepper's boyfriend Nate. Between her worries and her struggle to hire staff at the Spice Shop, Pepper has her hands and her heart full. Still, she can't resist the lure of the Gold Rush and its tangled history of secrets and lies stretching back nearly a century. 
   
   
   
  But the killer is on her tail, driven by hidden demons and desires. As Pepper begins to expose the long-concealed truth, a bigger question emerges: Can she uncover the secrets of the Gold Rush Hotel without being pushed from the wok into the fire?

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  Reason to Fear

  Craig A. Falconer

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  When the stars whisper, we have to listen … 
   
  An alien signal. 
   
  Of all the things I expected to uncover while trying to make sense of the Anomaly, this didn't even enter my mind. 
   
  But now, the signal has changed my understanding of everything. 
   
  The Anomaly that's suffocating Earth isn't natural, and decoding this message could be our one shot at saving the planet. 
   
  The trouble is, we don't even know where to start. 
   
  What will it take to decipher the alien signal and unlock the secrets of the Anomaly? And how should we reply when we decode their message? 
   
  A lot of people don't think we should trust the aliens who are reaching out to us. I can't pretend I don't understand why. 
   
  But with no other way of putting things right, we have to at least figure out what they're saying. 
   
  The clock is ticking until the Anomaly consumes us. The fate of humanity lies in my hands all over again. 
   
  And this time, the choices I make will echo through the cosmos …

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  The Celtic Stone

  Nick Hawkes

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  Chris Norman's dreams of being a commercial pilot are shattered when he crashes his plane in central Australia. His life hangs in the balance—a balance that is swayed by the intervention of an Aboriginal bushman bent on his own murderous mission. The bushman leaves Chris with a mysterious and incongruous legacy, a Celtic cross made of stone. 
   
   
   
  Partly blinded and in deep grief at no longer being able to fly, Chris finds his way to the Hebridean islands off the west coast of Scotland, where he seeks to unravel the secrets of the Celtic stone. 
   
   
   
  A blind Hebridean woman, shunned by many in her local community, becomes Chris's reluctant ally, along with a seven-year-old boy who is as wild as the storm-tossed seas that surround the islands. 
   
   
   
  It becomes apparent that the violence of the island's history has carried on into the present. Chris needs to recover from his grief, discover his identity . . . and right an injustice in Scottish history that has shamed an island community.

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