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  M.H. Vickers

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  A sociopath managing an aged care facility: What could go wrong? 
   
  Precocious and pretty Maxine Gilbert is a clever and talented nine-year-old, adored by a doting father. She is also cruel, sadistic and without remorse, delighting in manipulating others and torturing small animals. When her mother is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, Maxine is disgusted, not just by her mother’s disability, but by the inconvenience it brings. Watching a nurse care for her mother, Maxine learns that nurses can hurt or heal. Maxine decides to be a nurse when she grows up. 
   
  Forty years on, after countless complaints against her nursing in various clinical care settings, Maxine scams a job as Managing Director of an aged care facility, Treetops, and the residents are in for a rough time. 
   
  Under Maxine’s management, physical and medical restraint of residents is encouraged, and neglect, poor hygiene, and restrictions of residents’ liberty, nourishment and medical support are exhorted. Frightened, depressed, and malnourished residents are left isolated, locked away, and laying in their own waste. They develop excruciating infections, suffer illness, and even die. Maxine faces rising antagonism from Treetops’ residents, and their friends and family.  
   
  A new carer at Treetops, Seleena, who recently escaped an abusive marriage, cannot stay silent. Along with warning residents, and others, Seleena writes a letter of complaint. After finding a suspicious lump in her breast, could Maxine, who always hated illness and vulnerability in others, finally learn compassion? Or will she continue her ruthless ways?

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  Brush with Death A: A...

  J.M. Hall

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  ‘An immersive and really satisfying mystery’ Faith Martin 
  ‘As an iced drink in a heatwave … These characters and their families feel like old friends. A fantastic addition to the series.’ Fiona Leitch 
  Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma have a brand-new mystery to solve in this wonderfully witty cosy mystery. 
  Retired schoolteachers Pat, Liz and Thelma don’t know what to think. The death of Neville Hilton is not a crime. Just your standard, if tragic, heart attack. At least that’s what the autopsy shows. 
  But his ex-wife isn’t convinced. She’s sure the current Mrs Hilton is involved – maybe she wasn’t at some horse event, as she told police. 
  And so the three friends step away from their slices of cake to investigate. 
  As the trio delve into the village’s secrets, they uncover more than they bargained for – angry residents with old grudges and the echoes of a damning report that ruined lives all those years ago… 
  Can these unlikely sleuths untangle the web of lies and uncover the truth before anybody else dies? 
  The brand-new totally addictive and page-turning cosy mystery featuring these very unlikely sleuths. Fans of Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders will be hooked from the very first page.Praise for J.M. Hall 
  ‘J.M. Hall has mastered the warmth of a perfect modern cosy crime with all the twists and turns that go with it.' Hannah Hendy, author of The Dinner Lady Detectives 
  ‘Three strong women, lots of hot tea, and a devilish clever plot. You’ll love it.’ Suk Pannu, author of Mrs Sidhu's Dead and Scone 
  ‘The ingredients for the perfect modern cosy crime: intrigue, characters you care about and a good dollop of humour.' Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants 
  ‘The perfect page turning, guess-who cosy crime.’ Northern Life Magazine 
  ‘This fun crime novel will have you hooked from the very first page.’ Woman’s Own 
  This cosy, humorous work of fiction blends an amateur investigation with the messy realities of relationships—divorce, separation, and family loyalties that don’t break cleanly. In this series story, the trio push on toward the final answers, hoping they reach the truth before the last secret costs another life. 
  For fans of Dee Macdonald (A Body at Lavender Cottage), Clare Chase (Mystery at the Old Mill), Richard Osman (We Solve Murders), Peter Boland (DEATH OF A WILD SWIMMER an absolutely gripping British mystery full of twists), and Hannah Hendy (A Terrible Village Poisoning). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  A Nutcracker Nightmare

  Christina Romeril

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  Hanna and Alex, owners of the Murder and Mayhem book and chocolate shop, are busy preparing for the Harriston High School’s reunion weekend. Neighbors will connect with old friends and perhaps try to avoid old foes. One person no one can avoid is Kyle, the former star quarterback, who is busy using his entire playbook to try and score with Hanna, even threatening her if she doesn’t play nice. At the reunion, Alex glimpses more drama than nostalgia as insults are flung around like a football at a Friday night game. The party is put on hold when Alex finds the dead body of none other than Kyle himself, bludgeoned to death by a nutcracker that the sisters admired earlier in the night. Hanna quickly becomes the prime suspect—someone saw her slap Kyle in the face at the reunion dance. She’ll need her sister, their sleuthing canine, Watson, and their old friends and colleagues to help break this case wide open. While looking through old yearbooks and taking a stroll down memory lane, Alex uncovers a few secrets about Kyle. Now, it seems like everyone had a motive to kill him. But when the suspects start becoming the victims, Alex and Hanna know that they can’t melt under the pressure—they must find the killer before they become just another yearbook memory.

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  The Blind Tiger - The 2nd Hidden...

  Chris Holcombe

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  POISON. POWER. PERIL. 
  DISCOVER THE DARK SIDE OF THE DECADE THAT ROARED. 
  What killed the infamous flapper Rosalie Frazier? And was gay speakeasy owner Dash Parker's booze to blame? 
  These are the burning questions in Dash's mind as he is forced to team up with an unusual, unpredictable gangster and investigate the deadlier side of Prohibition. Sinister mob men with hidden motives. A pair of seedy Times Square roommates hoping for a financial windfall. A shattered family full of bitterness and spite. And at the center, a young woman who loved coded messages and uncovering secrets. 
  Unlikely partners. Unimaginable lovers. Unseen adversaries. And Dash must discover who is who or he'll disappear forever in the darkness . . . 
  The Blind Tiger is the second novel in the Hidden Gotham series, which started with the acclaimed The Double Vice, a novel Queer Writers of Crime called "One of the best I've read all year!"

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  City of Veils and Vengeance - An...

  Pamela Zych

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  In the smog-choked guts of Aethelburg, a city of glittering spires and grimy gutters, Emma is a ghost. A thief whose life is a cold calculus of survival—until a violent outburst reveals a power she never knew she possessed: the forbidden, terrifying magic of the Void. Captured by the city’s elite guardians, Emma expects a swift execution. Instead, she’s given an impossible choice: die on a pyre or enroll in the prestigious Aegis Academy, the military heart of the very power that oppresses her people. 
  Forced to hide her monstrous secret among the children of the ruling class, Emma is placed under the tutelage of Liam Oliver, the Academy’s golden prodigy and a master of the light she is sworn to hate. Their animosity is as stark as the shadow and light they command. But when a series of ritualistic murders terrorize the city, framing the phantoms of legend, Emma and Liam are thrust into an uneasy alliance, hunting a truth that could shatter their world. 
  They soon discover the city’s greatest monsters don’t lurk in the darkness, but walk in the sun, cloaked in honor and righteousness. To unravel a conspiracy that threatens to drown her home in a holy war, Emma must trust the one man destined to destroy her. She must learn to control the power she fears, even as it forges an impossible, dangerous bond with the boy of light. In a city where light is a lie, her only hope is to embrace the dark.

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  Murder Under a Red Moon

  Harini Nagendra

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  The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy uncovering a new murder during the blood moon eclipse. 
   
   
   
  When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime to please her domineering mother-in-law—during the blood moon eclipse, no less—she doesn't expect, once again, to stumble upon a murder. 
   
   
   
  With anti-British sentiment on the rise, a charismatic religious leader growing in influence, and the fight for women's suffrage gaining steam, Bangalore is turning out to be a far more dangerous and treacherous place than Kaveri ever imagined—and everyone's motives are suspect. 
   
   
   
  Together with the Bangalore Detectives Club—a mixed bag of street urchins, nosy neighbors, an ex-prostitute, and a policeman's wife—Kaveri once again sleuths in her sari and hunts for clues in her beloved 1920s Ford. 
   
   
   
  But when her life is suddenly put in danger, Kaveri realizes that she might be getting uncomfortably close to the truth. So she must now draw on her wits and find the killer . . . before they find her.

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