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  Giants' Bread Book II - Nell -...

  Agatha Christie

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  Book II: Nell carries Giants' Bread from childhood memory into the restless intensity of young adulthood. Vernon Deyre has moved beyond the protected world of Abbots Puissants and into a wider society of artists, friends, expectations, and romantic possibility. His genius is still unformed, but the pressure of it is already alive within him, pulling him away from ordinary happiness and toward a future he does not yet understand. 
  At the center of this volume is Nell, bright, alluring, and emotionally vital. Through her, Vernon discovers the force of romantic love and the ache of wanting to be both wholly known and wholly free. Their relationship is tender, uncertain, and marked by the invisible rival that stands between Vernon and everyone who loves him: music. He longs for domestic joy, yet he is haunted by a calling that no person can fully satisfy. 
  Sebastian Levinne remains a sharp and loyal presence, moving through London society with ambition, irony, and a growing instinct for power. Around Vernon gathers a world of talk, performance, artistic experiment, and social judgment. Every conversation seems to test what he is becoming. Every attachment asks whether love can survive the hunger of genius. 
  Nell is a volume of romance and suspense in the emotional sense: the suspense of a heart divided, of talent still concealed, of a life approaching its decisive break. Agatha Christie, writing with the psychological insight of Mary Westmacott, gives listeners a portrait of youth in which tenderness and ambition are never simple. For anyone drawn to literary romance, artistic obsession, and the cost of becoming extraordinary, Book II is a deeply compelling continuation.

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  The Scribe - A Novel

  Matthew Guinn

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  A reckoning with the persistence of evil in post–Civil War Atlanta 
  After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta’s 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta’s first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they’re assigned is chilling: a serial murderer who seems to be violently targeting Atlanta’s wealthiest black entrepreneurs. The killer’s method is both strange and unusually gruesome. On each victim’s mutilated body is inscribed a letter of the alphabet, beginning with “M.” The oligarchy of Atlanta’s most prominent white businessmen―the same men who ran Canby out of town, known more openly before Reconstruction as “the Ring”―is anxious to solve the murders before they lose the money they’ve invested in both the exposition and the city’s industrialization, even if resolution comes at the expense of justice. 
  After Canby’s arrival the murders become increasingly disturbing and unpredictable, and his interference threatens to send the investigation spinning off in the wrong direction. As the toll of innocent victims rises, Canby must face down enduring racism and his own prejudices, to see clearly the source of these bloody crimes. Meanwhile, if he can restore his reputation, he might win back the woman he loves. 
  With scrupulous attention to historical detail, Edgar Award finalist Matthew Guinn draws listeners into a vortex of tense, atmospheric storytelling, confronting the sins and fears of both old South and new.

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  House of Two Pharaohs - Step...

  Wilbur Smith

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  Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.FROM THE SHADOWS. A NEW EVIL WILL RISE. FACELESS. NAMELESS.Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis, by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city back from the brink. The famous white city walls have been rebuilt, the once starving inhabitants fed and every day caravans have arrived from the desert wastes, filled with the many riches looted and hidden by the Hyksos. But when the body of a murdered scribe is found sealed inside the newly constructed city vault - the mark of Anubis, god of death, scrawled next to him in his own blood - panic sweeps the city. Only the wisest man in all Egypt can solve this mystery - Piay's mentor, the great sage Taita.Called from his place at the God-Pharaoh Rameses' side, Taita's arrival in Memphis calms the populace, but it isn't long before the mark of Anubis appears again, and again. Taita and Piay are drawn into a battle of wits against a criminal mastermind turned warlord, his aim - with the demise of the Hyksos - to see the kingdom of the Red Pretender restored and the forces of Rameses crushed.Will everything that Taita has fought for be torn asunder? Or will he and Piay finally reunite the two kingdoms? Only time will tell. And time is running out.

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  The Cain Deception

  Mike Ryan

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  In this follow-up to The Cain Conspiracy, Matthew Cain finds himself on the wrong side of a hit man. After he is sent on an assassination mission in Russia, The Specter Project learns of a man seeking revenge for Cain's actions. After Cain hears of the man's intentions, he sets out on a frenetic search to find the killer before he makes good on his plans to kill both Cain and his girlfriend. 
  ​Along the way, Cain finds more questions than answers about the mysterious assassin, who seems to be a ghost. As Cain dives deeper into his quest, he starts to wonder about his role within the super secret agency and whether there are those above him who know more than what they appear.

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  Whispers of the Dead - A...

  Lin Anderson

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  'Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod has become one of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' - Daily Mail 
  A gangland slaying. A missing movie star. When an actor goes missing in Glasgow, the clue to his whereabouts could be in the film script itself.*****In the dead of night, a man’s body is found strapped to a chair in Glasgow’s Elder Park, his identity unknown. Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod thinks the violence displayed at the scene suggests a gangland feud. And, when the post-mortem uncovers a bullet engraved with a snake’s head in the man’s stomach, Rhona's suspicions intensify.Elsewhere in the city, a major Hollywood movie is being filmed, but production comes to a standstill when the lead actor vanishes without a trace. As the news spreads, DS Michael McNab senses a chilling connection between the two cases – a brutal organized-crime storyline playing out in real life on the streets of Glasgow.With fact and fiction blurring, all Rhona and McNab know for sure is that there is a vendetta at work that must be paid in blood. Can the script of the movie lead them to the killer before its gruesome finale comes to pass?Whispers of the Dead is the latest pulse-pounding instalment in Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series.*****Readers love Whispers of the Dead:'I absolutely love Lin's writing style - atmospheric, descriptive, engrossing' – Reader Review'Tense, gritty and packed with twists and turns . . . A really authentic sense of the darker side of life on the streets of Glasgow' – Reader Review'I am in awe of the way in which Anderson keeps all of the plot threads in hand whilst expertly weaving in connections and tying up loose threads' – Reader Review'Glasgow and its surrounds are in the DNA of the bestselling series' – The Sunday Post

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  A Little Bit Dangerous

  Adele Clee

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  As a gaming hell owner and scholar, Christian Chance is a walking monument to contradiction. A dangerous man lurks beneath his handsome facade. Few are blessed with intelligence and brawn. Few have experienced life as an earl’s grandson and been forced to live in the rookeries. So, when fate offers him an opportunity to combine his talents, he agrees to investigate a case of fraud at the museum. He didn’t expect to be lumbered with a partner—an exotic beauty and his arch-enemy’s daughter. A woman who rouses his passion and his disdain.Isabella Lawton has spent a lifetime running from her problems. Left homeless after her mother’s death, she has no option but to return to London and pray her father can find an ounce of compassion. But the house is empty, and there’s no sign of the man who never wanted her. A chance meeting offers a perfect solution to her dilemma. But it means working with a man who despises her. A man who hides behind an impenetrable wall to keep people out.Will the couple overcome their differences and solve the case?What happens when contempt turns to forbidden desire?

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