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  The Five Orange Pips

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Five Orange Pips, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. Conan Doyle later ranked the story seventh in a list of his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. A young gentleman named John Openshaw has a strange story: in 1869 his uncle Elias Openshaw had suddenly come back to England to settle on an estate in Horsham, West Sussex after living for years in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a colonel in the Confederate Army.Not being married, Elias had allowed his nephew to stay at his estate. Strange incidents have occurred; one is that although John could go anywhere in the house, he could never enter a locked room containing his uncle's trunks. Another peculiarity was that in March 1883 a letter postmarked Pondicherry, in India, arrived for the Colonel inscribed only "K. K. K." with five orange pips (seeds) enclosed.More strange things happened: Papers from the locked room were burnt and a will was drawn up leaving the estate to John Openshaw. The Colonel's behaviour became bizarre. He would either lock himself in his room and drink or he would go shouting forth in a drunken sally with a pistol in his hand. On 2 May 1883 he was found dead in a garden pool.Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle's: "A Study in Scarlet", "Silver Blaze", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Yellow Face", "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Speckled Band", "The Engineer's Thumb", "The Noble Bachelor", "The Beryl Coronet", "The Copper Beeches" and many more.

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  The Couple Across The Street - A...

  Anita Waller

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  The gripping psychological thriller from the #2 bestselling author of The Family at No. 12! 
  A darkness settles on this supposedly quiet street... 
  When Clare becomes a widow, her response is something that shocks her – relief. All she wants to do is move on and figure out how to continue her life, alone, no matter the guilt that brings. 
  So when Vic, her closest friend, comes to her, showing the signs of trouble in her own marriage, she is more than supportive in helping her leave Rob. 
  But Vic doesn’t get the chance to do that. Because as they go over to Vic's house to collect her things, they find a body. Rob’s. 
  It appears someone else had an axe to grind. But for Clare, already reeling from secrets from her own late husband’s dark past, she’s about to find out this murder isn’t as straightforward as it may appear… 
  An addictive psychological thriller from bestselling author Anita Waller perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden. 
  Praise for Anita Waller: 
  'A great cast of characters, a riveting storyline, a nail-biting climax' Valerie Keogh 
  'By page 3 I was hooked. By the end I was addicted' Owen Mullen 
  ‘Talk about red herrings! This book kept me guessing… Intrigue and mystery. Murder! This talented and gifted author has written a cannot put down novel’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘…family secrets, complex emotions and dark deeds from the past… delightful’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘This is a one-sitting read, it will have you glued!... This story had all of the great ingredients murder, revenge, mystery to name a few - a page turner at its best’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘This book once again demonstrates why Waller is one of my all time favourite authors… its twists and turns were fabulous… very gripping and entertaining’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘I read all in one sitting. Would strongly recommend for readers of domestic noir and relationship thrillers’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review

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  The Stolen Brain - A Wonderful...

  Nicholas Carter

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  The Stolen Brain - A Wonderful Crime, Sample Preview from eBook - "There goes another, chief. That makes five so far. There surely is something going on to-night," the young man at the window declared excitedly. It was Patsy Garvan, Nick Carter's second assistant, and he who was addressed was the great New York detective himself. The closest friends would have known neither of them, however, unless they had been in the secret, for both were cleverly disguised.

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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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  Cargo of Coffins

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Lars Marlin has escaped from Devil's Island and come face to face with the man who put him there — Paco Corvino. Now the two are off to sea serving on a luxury yacht. Lars is determined to find out what Corvino has up his sleeve... and what killer cargo he's hiding on board. But the yacht owner's daughter is a beautiful — and dangerous — distraction. Will Lars be safe in her arms... or is she part of Corvino's plot — a trap set with honey?

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  Lowbridge

  Lucy Campbell

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLEY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION 
   
  A missing girl. Decades of silence. A secret too big to bury.  
    
  1987: It’s late summer and a time of change when a 17-year-old girl leaves the local shopping centre in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never seen again. 
    
  Her unsolved disappearance is never far from the town’s memory. There’s those who grew up in the shadow of her loss whose own lives were altered forever, and those who know more than they’re saying.  
    
  It just takes an outsider to ask the right questions. 
    
  2018: Katherine Ashworth, shattered by the death of her daughter, moves to her husband’s hometown. Searching for a way to pick up the pieces of her life, she joins the local historical society and becomes obsessed with the three-decades-old mystery. 
    
  As Katherine digs into that summer of 1987, she stumbles upon the trail of a second girl who vanished and was never missed because no one cared enough to see what was happening in plain sight.  
    
  Her trail could lead right to Katherine’s door.  
    
  In a town simmering with divisions and a cast of unforgettable characters, Lowbridge is a heart-wrenching mystery about the girls who are lost, the ones who are mourned and those who are forgotten.

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