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  PRIMAL Vengeance

  Jack Silkstone

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  In the crosshairs of evil, one vigilante team stands ready to fight for the forgotten. 
   
   
  The Dinka tribe fights a desperate battle against marauding Arab militias in the war-torn landscape of South Sudan. They are determined to protect their oil-rich lands and secure a brighter future. But the odds are stacked against them. 
   
  Enter PRIMAL, a renegade agency that steps in where governments fear to tread. Joining forces with Jonjo, a fierce teenage warrior, and Garang, a battle-hardened veteran, they embark on a global mission to protect the oppressed. 
   
  With cutting-edge tactics and unwavering determination, PRIMAL strikes across the globe, from the African bush to Shanghai's neon streets, delivering explosive justice to those who prey on the weak. As the stakes rise and the enemy closes in, the team must risk everything to protect the innocent and bring hope to a land on the brink of darkness. Will their mission be a success? 
   
   
  Jack Silkstone's third installment in the explosive PRIMAL series takes readers on a heart-pounding, page turning journey through the world of unsung heroes on covert operations.

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  Slaughter's Hound

  Declan Burke

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  "I glanced up but he'd already jumped, a dark blur plummeting, wings folded against the drag like some starving hawk out of the noon sun, some angel betrayed. He punched through the cab's roof so hard he sent metal shearing into the petrol tank. All it took was one spark. Boom . . ."Harry Rigby is right there, an eye-witness when Finn Hamilton walks out into the big nothing nine stories up, but no one wants to believe Finn is just the latest statistic in Ireland's silent epidemic. Not Finn's mother, Saoirse Hamilton, whose property empire is crumbling around her; and not Finn's pregnant fiancé, Maria, or his sister Grainne; and especially not Detective Tohill, the cop who believes Rigby is a stone-cold killer, a slaughter's hound with a taste for blood . . . Welcome to Harry Rigby's Sligo, where death comes dropping slow. Studded with shards of black humour and mordant wit, Slaughter's Hound is a gripping noir from one of the most innovative voices in Irish crime fiction.

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  Getting Away With Murder

  Pat Herbert

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  In 1913 suffragette Emily St John-Carstairs and her husband disappear from their South London home under mysterious circumstances. The scene shifts to 1958, where Teddy Bean, a former juggler turned private detective, is hired by Emily's sister to find her. 
  As the story unfolds between the two decades, we follow the fortunes of an unprincipled parlour maid, an unemployed alcoholic cook and a mysterious gentleman known only as ‘Bob’, all of whom are in some way linked to Emily’s fate. Added into the mix, is the ex-juggler's schizophrenic, knife-wielding wife but what part does she play in Emily’s story?

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  The Murders in the Rue Morgue

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Step into the darkened streets of 19th-century Paris, where logic battles the impossible and reason confronts horror in Edgar Allan Poe's groundbreaking tale, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Widely regarded as the first modern detective story, this chilling masterpiece introduces readers to C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant and eccentric investigator whose analytical mind cuts through confusion like a blade through shadow.
  
  When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered inside their fourth-floor apartment on the Rue Morgue, the crime shocks the city. The scene is locked from the inside. Furniture is shattered. A razor lies bloodied. Witnesses report hearing two voices—one clearly French, the other unrecognizable, described variously as Spanish, Italian, Russian, or something else entirely. No one can agree on its origin. No suspect can be identified. No motive can be imagined. The case appears utterly impossible.
  
  Enter Dupin.
  
  Through careful observation and razor-sharp reasoning, Dupin dismantles the assumptions of the Parisian police, exposing their limitations and reliance on routine methods. He demonstrates that the key to solving even the most baffling mystery lies not in brute force or guesswork, but in imaginative logic—the ability to think beyond conventional boundaries while remaining grounded in rational analysis.
  
  As Dupin reconstructs the horrifying events piece by piece, Poe masterfully builds suspense, blending psychological insight with gothic atmosphere. The tension escalates as readers are drawn deeper into a puzzle that seems supernatural in its brutality and strangeness. Yet the solution, when revealed, is as startling as it is brilliantly logical.
  
  More than just a murder mystery, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a pioneering work that laid the foundation for the entire detective fiction genre. Dupin would later inspire iconic literary sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Poe's exploration of analytical reasoning, the limits of perception, and the darkness hidden within civilized society remains as compelling today as it was in 1841.
  
  Atmospheric, intellectual, and deeply unsettling, this classic tale challenges readers to question what they think they know—and to look beyond the obvious. In doing so, Poe not only delivers a gripping mystery but also establishes himself as a master of suspense and psychological storytelling.
  
  Prepare to unravel a crime that defies explanation—and witness the birth of detective fiction itself.

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  Drowned Harbor - Blue Moon...

  Steve Higgs, Justin Herzog

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  A coven of witches bent on murder, a cult of hidden figures raising a leviathan to smite the city … sounds like a regular Wednesday morning for Boston PD’s supernatural division. 
   
  Chloe Mayfield is a career cop, but when a high-profile bust goes spectacularly wrong, she finds herself assigned to the losers in Blue Moon … 
   
  … and discovers a world she never knew existed. 
   
  Tasked to investigate a drowning far from water in a high-rise building, the symbol carved into the victim’s chest defies explanation. Until she begins to pry, and a coven of witches show up with a threat to stay out of their business. 
   
  With a wise-cracking dwarf and a senior-citizen claiming to be a descendent of Joan of Arc at her side, she’ll need to uncover the truth and stop the killer. And she’d better do it soon, because the tides are rising, and one single misstep is all it will take to leave the city, not to mention her career, in ruins.

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  Stronger Than Death

  Andrew Lowe

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  Five victims, bonded by blood. A detective blinded by revenge. 
   
  Jake Sawyer is suffering. After a bruising confrontation with a cruel killer, he has isolated himself in a remote cottage in the bleak and beautiful northern Peak District. 
   
  Facing an uncertain future, he resumes his covert investigation into his mother’s murder, and enters therapy to explore his lack of primal fear response. 
   
  When an ex-TV personality is found murdered, from a single stab wound to the heart, Sawyer suspects a ritualistic element. But then a second victim is found, and he forms a terrifying theory about the killer’s twisted logic. 
   
  As Sawyer edges closer to mental collapse, he must protect the killer’s targets as he uncovers the truth behind the death of his mother. 
   
  A truth that will put his reputation, and freedom, at risk.

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