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  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a brilliant London-based "consulting detective" famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for his enormous scope of observation, his astute logical reasoning and forensic science skills in solving difficult crimes. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, including The Final Problem in which Holmes confronts his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty, originally published in 1894, which are preceded by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and followed by The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

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  Dying Light The: From the...

  Daniel Aubrey

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  The longest day. The deadliest sins. 
  *From the bestselling author of Dark Island* 
  All of Daniel Aubrey's books can be read as standalones. 
  The residents of Orkney can’t sleep. 
  Through 18-hour summer days, the islands are drenched in unrelenting sunshine. 
  But a killer with a shadowy past is living undetected on the archipelago. 
  As the heat rises, reporter Freya will not rest until she’s brought the truth to light. Can she stop the murderer before they strike again? 
  The highly anticipated second instalment of the celebrated Orkney Mysteries series, The Dying Light is perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Elly Griffiths and Val McDermid 
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  PRAISE FOR THE DYING LIGHT (ORKNEY MYSTERIES #2) 
  *Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year* 
  *Selected for the Critics’ New Blood panel at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival* 
  PRAISE FOR DARK ISLAND (ORKNEY MYSTERIES #1) 
  *Shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award 2024* 
  *Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 2024* 
  *Longlisted for Scotland’s National Book Award – First Book of the Year 2024* 
  'Daniel Aubrey can do for Orkney what Ann Cleeves has done for Shetland' MARION TODD 
  'Twists and secrets galore … A nail-biting thriller you'll never forget' CAROLINE MITCHELL 
  'A tense read with emotional honesty … Freya is a triumph' CALLUM McSORLEY 
  'My debut novel of the year' CHRIS LLOYD 
  'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' NASHEEMA LENNON 
  In this latest sequel, Aubrey takes us back to the small, rural town of Orkney, where amateur sleuths are once again drawn into a web of mystery and thrillers. The story, filled with unexpected twists and turns, is a testament to Aubrey's skill as a master of detective fiction. 
  For fans of Martina Murphy (The Reckoning), Damien Boyd (As the Crow Flies), Neil Broadfoot (Exit Wounds), J M Dalgliesh (When Death Calls), and Andrew Raymond (The Shortlist). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Crime Exposed A Buck Taylor Novel

  Chuck Morgan

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  Fresh off investigating the ambush murders of two police officers, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent, Buck Taylor and his team are called upon to find a missing journalist, in a case that leads to child porn, and murder, in the much anticipated fourth “Crime” novel.  
  She was about to thank the Good Samaritan when he reached a huge hand behind her head and in one swift move slammed her forehead into the steering wheel. The blow was so hard that it cracked the top of the steering wheel. It took two more blows to knock her out. 
  He put the car in gear and, checking once more up and down the highway, pushed the car past the end of the guardrail and stopped it at the edge of the drop-off. The reservoir was still frozen, but he hoped that enough of the thaw had occurred to make the ice thin enough so the car would crash right through it. He was confident that the snowfall that was underway would cover the hole in the ice. 
  With one last look up and down the empty highway, he closed the door, walked behind the car and gave it a shove. With a grinding of metal against rock, the car bounced over the edge and rolled down the side of the reservoir, crashing into the ice with a loud bang, and after a second’s hesitation, broke through the ice and disappeared beneath the surface. He stood on the shoulder of the road and watched until the taillights blinked off.

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  The House of the Vampire

  George Sylvester Viereck

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  "The House of the Vampire" by George Sylvester Viereck is a pioneering work of vampire fiction that blends psychological intrigue with supernatural horror. The story follows Reginald Clarke, a charismatic yet sinister intellectual who preys on the creative energy and vitality of those around him. As his newest protégé becomes entangled in his dark world, themes of exploitation, obsession, and moral ambiguity come to the fore. Viereck reimagines the vampire mythos as a metaphor for emotional and artistic manipulation, offering a chilling exploration of human vulnerability. With its atmospheric prose and philosophical undertones, this novella stands as an innovative precursor to modern vampire tales, blending gothic suspense with introspective depth.

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  To Be a Man - Stories

  Nicole Krauss

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  O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the Year 
  Time Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020  
  Financial Times' Best Books of 2020 
  Esquire's Best Books of 2020 
  New York Times Editors' Choice 
   
  Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020  
  Bustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020 
  Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020 
  Library Journal's Best Short Stories of 2020 
  “Superb. . . . Krauss’s depictions of the nuances of sex and love, intimacy and dependence, call to mind the work of Natalia Ginzburg in their psychological profundity, their intellectual rigor. . . . Krauss’s stories capture characters at moments in their lives when they’re hungry for experience and open to possibilities, and that openness extends to the stories themselves: narratives too urgent and alive for neat plotlines, simplistic resolutions or easy answers.”  —Molly Antopol, New York Times Book Review 
   “From a contemporary master, an astounding collection of ten globetrotting stories, each one a powerful dissection of the thorny connections between men and women. . . . Each story is masterfully crafted and deeply contemplative, barreling toward a shimmering, inevitable conclusion, proving once again that Krauss is one of our most formidable talents in fiction.” —Esquire 
  In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all.  
  The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young women’s coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength. 

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  Knockdown

  Dick Francis

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  Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. 
   
  For a generous commission, ex-prizewinning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman.  
   
  But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse. 
   
  Unfortunately that’s just the beginning. Now Jonah must figure out the high stakes game being played, before he becomes its next casualty.

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