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  Osprey - an action-adventure...

  M. L. Buchman

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  Russia teeters on the brink of collapse, spoiling for a battle to end all wars. All it needs? One thin excuse. 
  World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. World War II launched with the invasion of Poland. As for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine… 
  A Russian flyby of an American CMV-22 Osprey tiltrotor goes desperately wrong over the North Sea. Will the tipping point for World War III break the moment a favored daughter of the Oligarchy goes down in flames? 
  When the NSA’s secret military base at Menwith Hill in the UK needs specialized expertise, they call in Miranda Chase. She and her elite team of air-crash investigators must avert a crisis like none before. A crisis that unravels her past, batters at her autism, and threatens to crush her team in the ultimate grinder of East vs. West. 
  "Miranda is utterly compelling!" - Booklist, starred review 
  “Escape Rating: A. Five Stars! OMG just start with Drone and be prepared for a fantastic binge-read!” -Reading Reality

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  Antwerp

  Roberto Bolaño

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  “Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review“A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New YorkerOften called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years old, it was so intensely strange and solitary that he tucked it away for more than twenty years, certain that any publisher would slam the door in his face. It proceeds in hallucinatory sketches: a lonely highway, a desolate campground, a freshly abandoned hotel room; a tryst, an interrogation, a murder; and somewhere just out of reach, a young, feverish writer named Roberto Bolaño drifting in and out of view. A radical, sui generis effort by a burgeoning genius, Antwerp is an essential part of Bolaño’s oeuvre.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  The Secret Cell - The first...

  William E Burton

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  William Evans Burton was born in London on the 24th September 1804.  
   
  Initially set for a career in the church he attended St. Paul's School in London. At 18, after the death of his father, he took charge of the family printing concern.  He established a monthly magazine, which although a failure, brought him several theatrical acquaintances which then lured him towards the stage. 
   
  For several years he acted in low comedies around the provinces before debuting, to good notices, in London.  In 1833 his own play ‘Ellen Wareham’, was, somewhat unusually put on at five different theatres on the same evening.  
   
  In 1834 his marriage of 10 years failed and he decided to relocate, by himself, to America.  He soon leased a theatre, which he renamed ‘Burton’s Theatre’, in New York.   
   
  Three years later he established, with Edgar Allan Poe as its editor, the Gentleman’s Magazine in Philadelphia and wrote one of the earliest detective stories for it; ‘The Secret Cell’. 
   
  He and Poe had a difficult relationship, added to which Burton was frequently away in acting roles in other cities.  By 1840 he had fired Poe and then sold the magazine to finance renovation work on his theatre, which some time later failed.  Burton spend much of his remaining years editing magazines and writing books. 
   
  William E Burton died on the 10th February 1860 in New York City.  
   
  He left his fortune, among which was a library of over 100,000 books, to charity.  His separated wife from decades earlier challenged the will and created legal history in eventually gaining ownership of the estate.

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  Knife Edge

  Kerry Buchanan

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  A MESMERIZING BREAK-OUT CRIME THRILLER FULL OF BREATHTAKING TWISTS. 
   
   
   
  Nic always hated clubbing. She only went out that night because she'd promised a friend. 
   
   
   
  She wakes up, naked and bound in an abandoned cottage in the middle of nowhere. Dappled light comes in through a dirty window. Her body is covered in cuts. Across the room her friend groans in pain. 
   
   
   
  A shadow passes the window. He's back. 
   
   
   
  He picks up a knife. He begins to cut her friend. In that moment of bloody frenzy, Nic wrenches free and runs. She's finally safe. But this is just the beginning. 
   
   
   
  Detectives Asha Harvey and Aaron Birch arrive at the scene hours later. There is no body, there is no sign of the killer. It's as if it never happened. 
   
   
   
  YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW IT ENDS? THINK AGAIN.

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  George and Frances Roll the Dice

  Dianne Freeman

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  In this Victorian-era mystery novella, the Countess of Harleigh, Frances Hazelton, and her husband, George, discover that a French seaside resort is a fetching backdrop for business, pleasure … and murder. 
    
  Frances and George arrive in Deauville by the sea to enjoy a long-awaited honeymoon. It’s also an opportunity for George to inspect a villa inherited by his ward and arrange for its sale. To the Hazeltons’ surprise, they find it inhabited by wealthy revelers playing an illegal game of Hazard—forbidden fun, hosted by Albert Roth, a charismatic professional gambler who has a lease and no desire to vacate.  
    
  The discovery doesn’t sit well with Frances and George. Especially since Albert also fixes horse races and polo matches and is said to pay off authorities who turn a blind eye to his criminal endeavors. But not anymore. The Hazeltons plan to break up the party. Yet the game abruptly changes when a popular British polo player who claims to have lost a fortune to Albert is found murdered in the villa’s salon.  
    
  Now Frances and George have to do more than prove ownership of the valuable Normandy coast property. They have to find a killer. They’re sure all roads lead to Albert. But in a world of bribery, loansharking, corruption, and high society risks, nothing is what it seems. And for the Hazeltons, the stakes are getting higher …

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  How to Kill Your Next-Door Neighbor

  Elliot Sonder

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  The simple life she knew transforms into a nightmare when Penelope decides to trust a group of strangers in hopes of joining a new community. Among them, one is not who they seem. As strange behaviors emerge and hidden motives come to light, Penelope is forced to question everyone around her. Tensions rise when she learns that someone within her circle is out to kill her. Surrounded by strangers, she must tread carefully, piecing together clues to catch the killer before they catch her. 
  With the help of a determined detective, Penelope embarks on a high-stakes game of life and death, where every move could be her last. In How to Kill Your Next-Door Neighbor, trust becomes a dangerous gamble, and the line between neighbor and enemy blurs. This gripping psychological thriller will keep you questioning every shadow and every smile and make you look at your neighbors a bit differently.

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