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  The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

  Shida Bazyar

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  A captivating, polyphonic tale of one family’s flight from and return to Iran. 
  1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 
  1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power. 
  1999. Laleh returns to Iran with her mother, Nahid. Between beauty rituals and family secrets, she gets to know a Tehran that hardly matches her childhood memories. 
  2009. Laleh’s brother Mo is more concerned with a friend’s heartbreak than with student demonstrations in Germany. But then the Green Revolution breaks out in Iran and turns the world upside down … 
  A topical, moving story about revolution, oppression, resistance, and the absolute desire for freedom.

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  Bloody Paths

  Roger Trow

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  A bloody trail of killings with a supernatural connection leads Detective Inspector John Flint across the Celtic lands of Britain in pursuit of a sociopath who seeks to attain supernatural powers through the mythical Stone of Pentre Ifan. The stone is said to unlock the mysterious portal to the Afterlife and the killer will stop at nothing to gain divine power in both worlds.

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  The Tigerman

  Thomas Kennedy

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  Brendan, a quiet trainee accountant, naively agrees to carry a suitcase for Aftab, his boss, who has invited him to his wedding in India. He is plunged into the strange feudal world of a remote palace in rural India, together with, smuggled currency, man-eating tigers and arranged marriages. When he realises that Amaal and Benita are being forced into marriages, to frustrate this, he offers to marry them and take them to England where he can set them free to make their own lives. A group of 'honour killers' seek his death and that of the two women. He has to escape from India.  And back in London the criminals from whom Aftab stole the money Brendan unknowingly took to India, are awaiting his return.  A tale of romance and suspense based in rural India and cosmopolitan London.

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  attractive woman in apron...

  Mike DeFrench

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   He didn’t know how or why--it just...happened one day. 
  Jason Cole was working on finding a suitable picture for some newsletter or something. One of ten or twenty specific photos he would find that day. Same old thing he’d done a hundred times before. Looking through stock photos, this time for a cooking ad. 
  Then he found her. In a picture titled “attractive woman in apron smiling holding a spatula.” That was the first time he ever saw her. 
  And that first time was enough. It was her. He knew it. It was like a form a destiny or something. 
  He just...knew. 
  He was going to kill her. 
   

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  Murder on Bamboo Lane

  Naomi Hirahara

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  From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle . . . 
   
   
   
  Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate. 
   
   
   
  At the behest of her Aunt Cheryl, the highest-ranking Asian-American officer in the LAPD (a source of pride for Ellie's grandmother, but annoyance to her mom), Ellie becomes tangled in the investigation of the coed's murder—with equal parts help and hindrance from her nosy best friend, her over-involved ex-boyfriend, a smoldering detective, and seemingly everyone else in her extended family . . . only to uncover secrets that a killer may go to any lengths to ensure stay hidden.

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  Dice

  Claire Baylis

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION 
   
  A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is viewed in our society. 
   
  Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. 
   
  They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. 
   
  Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. 
   
  Only they can say whether crimes have been committed and who should be punished. 
   
  How does the jury find? 
   
  Dice is a stunning courtroom drama told from the perspective of a diverse group of ordinary people – the jury. How will twelve women and men, aged from eighteen to seventy-two with hugely disparate backgrounds, beliefs and experience, decide whether consent was given or crimes were committed? 
   
  How can they possibly arrive at a unanimous verdict? How will justice be properly served? 
   
  In this dazzlingly accomplished and gripping debut novel, chapters are told through the point of view of each juror as the trial unfolds. The reader too becomes a jury member as the evidence is presented and information is withheld, fragmented and re-told by different witnesses. Each person must decide where the truth lies. 
   
  Will the verdict deliver justice, or just reflect the prejudices and differences in the jury? 
   
  'Dice has a forensic depth that is compelling, that challenges and deeply moves the reader. But what sets this novel apart is the precision and power of the writing. This is fiction that doesn't want to be journalism, it affirms the truth and nuance and possibility of imagination.' Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap 
   
  'Dice achieves what the best fiction achieves: it draws us into the story on a deeply personal level, coaxing us to consider what we would do in the same situation...the moving and powerful final moment delivers a sense of narrative completion while also reminding us of the flawed nature of the justice system.' Catherine Chidgey, award-winning author of Remote Sympathy 
   
  'An utterly compelling, nuanced and appropriately complex read that effortlessly depicts the unique combination of the sensational and the mundane, which often characterises the criminal trial.' Professor Vanessa Munro, Warwick University

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