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  Dead as Gold - A beautifully...

  Bonnie Burke-Patel

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  A Love Reading Star Book and Best Book of the Year Pick
  'Melding modern mystery with fairy tale truths, this engrossing gothic crime novel is a thrilling, lyrical triumph' Love Reading.
  From Bonnie Burke-Patel, author of I Died at Fallow Hall, shortlisted for the 2025 Betty Trask Award, CWA Gold Dagger, and the Theakstons Old Peculier McDermid Debut Award.
  Adam Conlan has made a new life for himself in Morrow-on-Sea. After a wild youth, the goldsmith had settled down, determined to be around for his young son. But now Ophelia Richards appears at his studio door, asking if he will buy her gold. The writer entices and unsettles him; he sees she is adrift in the same cold pain and loneliness as he is.
  At the same time, faces begin appearing at the studio window, an unwelcome gift arrives in the post, gold goes missing.
  Then comes death, then comes Detective Inspector William Kent.
  Woven through with Morrow's fairy tales, Dead as Gold is a modern gothic crime novel veined with love, violence, family, and desire. Humans still use fairy tales to explore their deepest truths. So who is a wolf, and who is a sparrow?

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  Unseen Past (A Barren Pines...

  Kate Bold

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  This recording has been digitally produced by Kate Bold, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “This is an excellent book… When you start reading, be sure you don’t have to wake up early!”
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  In the impeccable suburb of Barren Pines, uniform houses and manicured lawns conceal the imperfect truths and deadly secrets of its residents.
  
  Following her husband’s sudden and unexpected death, the young widow Sienna is thrust unexpectedly into a labyrinth of deceit.
  
  As she tries to get to the bottom of what happened, the community can't help but whisper about Sienna’s shadowed past and the misfortune that seems to follow her—and her connection to the tragic fate of her late husband’s fist wife.  
  
  With each unraveling secret, she must confront whether the sinister revelations are merely suburban myths—or if truth lies buried in her own backyard.
  
  THE UNSEEN PAST (BARREN PINES: BOOK 5) is the fifth book in a thrilling new psychological suspense series by #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, whose bestseller NOT NOW (a free download) has received over 600 five star ratings and reviews.
  
  Future books in the series are also available!
  
  “This book moved very fast and every page was exciting. Plenty of dialogue, you absolutely love the characters, and you were rooting for the good guy throughout the whole story… I look forward to reading the next in the series.”
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  “Kate did an amazing job on this book and I was hooked from the first chapter!”
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  “I really enjoyed this book. The characters were authentic, and I see the bad guys as something we hear about daily on the news... Looking forward to book 2.”
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  “This was a really good book. The main characters were real, flawed and human. The story went along quickly and wasn't mired in too many unnecessary details. I really enjoyed it.”
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  “Alexa Chase is headstrong, impatient, but most of all brave with a capital B. She never, repeat never, backs down until the bad guys are put where they belong. Clearly five stars!”
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  “Captivating and riveting serial murder with a twist of the macabre… Very well done.”
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  “WOW what a great read! Talk about a diabolical killer! Really enjoyed this book. Looking forward to reading others by this author as well.”
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  “Page turner for sure. Great characters and relationships. I got into the middle of this story and couldn’t put it down. Looking forward to more from Kate Bold.”
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  “Hard to put down. It has an excellent plot and has the right amount of suspense. I really enjoyed this book.”
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  “Extremely well written, and well worth buying and reading. I can't wait to read book two!”
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  A Jewel in the Crown

  David Lewis

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  1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada. 
   
   
   
  Caitrin Colline—a Welsh coalminer's daughter and an ardent socialist—will play the wife of Lord Marlton, Hector Neville-Percy. A less likely couple is at first difficult to imagine. Yet Caitrin's bold, streetwise confidence and sharp wits complement Hector's social ease and connections, essential to a second part of their mission: uncovering Nazi sympathizers within the highest ranks of Britain's aristocracy. 
   
   
   
  Battling enemies within and without, Caitrin wonders if anyone in their circle can be trusted—even her partner. And when unexpected events catapult her into a life-or-death chase across the continent, the morale of a nation and the fate of Europe itself in the balance.

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  Summer of Blood

  Dave Warner

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  Two Australian police officers travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the summer of 1967 in search of a missing young man, only to find themselves fully immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn’t just any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder, and their search becomes a thrilling journey through the seamy side of the 1960s counterculture. 
   
  This book is not to be missed for fans of gripping crime fiction and rock’n’roll.

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  The Adventure of the Creeping...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" (1923) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published in Strand Magazine October 1921 - April 1927.
  A man named Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is Professor Presbury's personal secretary, and Mr. Bennett is also engaged to the professor's only daughter, Edith. Professor Presbury is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, a colleague's daughter, although he himself is already 61 years of age. Their impending marriage does not seem to have caused a great scandal, so that is not Mr Bennett's problem. Nonetheless, the trouble seems to have begun at about the time of Professor Presbury's and Alice's engagement. First, the professor suddenly left home for a fortnight without telling anyone where he was going. He returned looking rather travel-worn, and it was only through a letter from a friend sent to Mr Bennett that the family learnt that Professor Presbury had been to Prague.

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  The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

  Sir Aarthur Conan Doyl

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  Originally published in 1927, these short stories represent the fifth and final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's tales featuring Sherlock Holmes. Included are the following stories, originally published in Strand Magazine beginning in 1921 and stretching through 1927: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client The Adventure of the Blanched Solider The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The Adventure of the Three Gables The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire The Adventure of the Three Garridebs The Problem of Thor Bridge The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Lion's Mane The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place The Adventure of the Retired Colourman Note: The original text contained wording and phrasing choices that represented outdated cultural beliefs related to race. Per the publisher's discretion, this audiobook edition makes minor edits to these instances to avoid perpetuating racial prejudice and stereotyping. With these texts now available in the public domain, listeners are free to view the original text via sources such as Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, or Faded Page.

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