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  Ballad of the Gangster's Daughter

  Zachary Slingsby

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  Even bad men have daughters that can’t wait for them to come home.Serena Magic is the gifted middle child of a criminal entrepreneur from the Bronx. By the time she is twelve, her father Gerard has cobbled together enough street victories to relocate their family to the affluent suburbs of Connecticut. All is lush and green until the tranquility of their escape is viciously disrupted when a series of tragedies claims one Magic daughter after another.Spanning seven deaths over five decades, each chapter tells the loss of a different sister. And every funeral reveals two paths for Serena’s future—one where she can satisfy her desire for adventure and another where she continues to protect her family at all costs—even when they are on the wrong side of the truth, the law, or both.She voyages out to the ivy leagues, to Washington and to a career in the music business, only to be dragged back into the family’s dilemmas. We follow her dual loyalties from the fire-hydrant showers of the Bronx to the seafood bistros of Southport, from Dartmouth to inner-city Philadelphia, from the balconies of Rome to the fluorescent-lit supermarkets of Florida, from the apex of her New York City home—to a row of tombs and the yoke of dangerous people who love her very much.With every tragedy, Serena must choose.

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  Dishing the Dirt - An Agatha...

  M. C. Beaton

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  New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton’s beloved Agatha Raisin is back and finds that she must prove her own innocence when a local therapist turns up dead. 
  When therapist Jill Davent moved to the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin was not a fan. Not only was this therapist romancing Agatha’s ex-husband, she dug up details of Agatha’s not-too-glamorous origins. Jill also counsels a woman, Gwen Simple, that Agatha firmly believes assisted her son in some grisly murders, although there is no proof. Not one to keep her feelings to herself, Agatha tells anyone who will listen that Jill is a charlatan and better off dead. Agatha can only sigh with relief when the therapist takes an office in Mircester. 
  When Agatha learns that Jill had hired a private detective to investigate her background, she barges into Jill’s office and gives her a piece of her mind, yelling, “I could kill you!” So when Jill is found strangled to death in her office two days later, Agatha becomes the prime suspect. But Agatha, along with her team of private detectives, is determined to prove her innocence and find the real culprit. This time Agatha must use her skills to save her own skin. 
  With Dishing the Dirt, M. C. Beaton proves that “once you meet Agatha Raisin, you’ll keep coming back” (New York Journal of Books).

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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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