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  He Had It Coming

  Charles Puccia

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  Frances discovers her husband, Dom Langone, dead in the kitchen, a bullet in his skull. She is pleased except for the mess. Glee and a large inheritance propel Frances into prime suspect status. Dom’s colleague threatens Frances, implying he can implicate her in her husband’s murder unless she provides him with sensitive corporate information stolen by Dom. Frances and her two best friends embark on a ridiculous private investigation, only to stumble upon a motive for someone other than Frances to kill Dom. 
  Rampant lying and general relief at Dom’s demise hamper the police inquiry. Pairing a rookie cop on his first case with a seasoned detective percolates interpersonal and intergenerational conflicts. The young officer’s reliance on knowledge garnered from a herd of ex-girlfriends doesn’t help. 
  The case involves a complex web of duplicity, money laundering, drug trafficking, and a bank in the Grand Cayman Islands. The book is packed with characters who are either hopelessly inept or lead eccentric lives, or both.

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  The Lucky Widow - A gripping...

  Samantha Vérant

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  Wishing your husband dead isn’t a crime... 
   
  When you return from a work trip to find your husband dead in the pond, it’s best not to call him a liar and a cheat in front of the cops. Especially when you’ve spent the last few years telling anyone who’ll listen that you sometimes fantasize about killing him. It makes you look kind of, well, guilty. 
   
  Now I’m suspect number one for Nathaniel’s murder and the police are snooping around our perfect home. And the house is perfect because I designed it, down to the last marbled detail. You could say I designed our marriage, too. As soon as I saw Nathaniel—so handsome, successful, a surgeon—I knew I wanted him. Sadly our marriage wasn’t quite as perfect as our house. But whose is? 
   
  The cops want to talk to our daughters, our friends, even our staff. There’s the housekeeper, the cook, the pool cleaner, the dog walker. But like me they were all out of town when he died. They won’t have anything to say about what happened. Certainly nothing that will suggest I had something to do with it... 
   
  A gripping and utterly compulsive read that will have you racing toward the last dramatic page. Fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and anything by Lisa Jewell will be up all night reading The Lucky Widow.

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  Five Minutes

  J.R. Ripley

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  Got five minutes? Well good, here’s what J.R. Ripley's amazing Five Minutes is all about…Todd Jones is a hotshot realtor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He’s got a hot girlfriend, too. The trouble is that Todd is a real bad judge of character, especially his own. Todd’s got himself tangled up worse than an old fishing line balled up in that long forgotten tackle box in the garage. Let’s enumerate. One of Todd’s biggest clients is mad because the property Todd talked him into buying is underwater—literally. A screwy surfer dude with a recreational drug habit and a millionaire gun manufacturer for a father has got some not-so-friendly dealers on his tail. Todd’s mother has shown up and wants to live with him. And she’s brought her pet pig. And, oh, yeah, there’s this little problem Todd is having with one of his best friends, Dr. Doug Freeman. Todd has been sleeping with Doug’s wife. Okay, so maybe he shouldn’t have. He’d be the first to admit that it may have been an error in judgment on his part. He is a bad judge of character, remember? And that leads us to Todd Jones’ biggest problem. Dr. Doug has found out about Todd’s philandering and is aiming a pistol at Todd’s forehead even as we speak. Todd has five minutes to live. Maybe less if his girlfriend finds out about his cheating ways.

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  Before She Woke - A...

  Nora Whitlock

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  Astrid Sundquist writes down what people say for a living. Every word, every stammer, every answer given under oath. 
   
  Then she comes to in a hospital bed in Duluth, Minnesota, and three days of her own life are gone. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. A nurse tells her she was awake for much of that time. She talked. She asked questions. She said things she has no memory of saying. 
   
  Everyone who was there remembers those days differently. 
   
  Her husband says she fell down the basement stairs on Saturday night. Her sister says Astrid came to her house on Friday, upset, and left before midnight. The old woman across the alley swears she saw Astrid in the backyard on Saturday around noon, barefoot in the cold, asking what day it was. A detective wants to know who answered Astrid's phone late on Friday night. And her doctors want to know why her injuries don't fit anybody's story. 
   
  Astrid can't remember. But she knows how people sound when they are reciting something they have rehearsed. And the more versions she collects, the more certain she becomes that someone she loves has rewritten those three days, and is counting on her never being able to read them back. 
   
  A tense, twisting psychological thriller about memory, loyalty, and the stories a family agrees to tell.

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  No One Knew - Noelle Marshall...

  Kendra Elliot

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  For a detective and an FBI agent, two seemingly disparate murder investigations collide with a twist in an explosive novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. 
  In the crisp mountain air of central Oregon, a teenage girl’s search for discarded cans leads to a horrifying discovery: a body, brutally murdered and abandoned in the woods. The case falls to Deschutes County Detective Noelle Marshall, who finds herself navigating a community steeped in secrets, suspicion, and distrust of outsiders—especially law enforcement. 
  Miles away, FBI Special Agent Max Rhodes investigates a different kind of darkness—chatter about a violent uprising from a shadowy militia group preparing for war. The two cases seem worlds apart. But as Noelle digs into the murdered man’s past and Max closes in on the source of the terror plot, their paths begin to converge in a terrifying way. This was no random killing. It was a message. A merciless killer and a hidden army are operating in the same shadows, and finding the link between them is the only thing standing between a single murder and a full-blown massacre

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  The Dream Woman - A dream comes...

  Wilkie Collins

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  Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.  
   
  The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him. 
   
  He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington.  Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances: the school bully would give him no peace until he had been told a bedtime story.  This ‘little brute’ helped create one of England’s greatest writers.  
   
  On leaving school, in 1841, he became a clerk at a tea merchant before, 2 years later, publishing his first short story.  However, his first novel was rejected and remained so during his lifetime.  
   
  A brief stint at Lincoln’s Inn to please his father and to acquire a steady income was halted by his father’s death.  Collins then wrote and published his fathers’ memoirs.  He then completed his legal education though he would never practice.  
   
  In March 1851, he was introduced to Charles Dickens and there now started a period of sustained literary output and a remarkable lifelong friendship.  His stories were published in Dicken’s magazines, and he toured with Dicken’s theatrical before the two of them travelled to the Continent. 
   
  By the early 1860’s worrying signs of ill-health appeared with rheumatic gout.  As it worsened, he sought respite and cures in German spa towns and gave up writing to help his recuperation. 
   
  His personal life had become very complicated.  He was living with the widowed Caroline Graves and conducting an affair with a much younger Martha Rudd.  With the serialised release of ‘The Moonstone’ and vicious attacks of gout Caroline left him and married another.  Collins was now prescribed opium and was soon its lifelong dependent.  Martha bore him two children and with the return of a now divorced Caroline Graves he now divided his time between the two women. 
   
  In 1874 he set aside writing to tour North America on a reading tour. 
   
  Throughout his later years he continued to write and publish.  In all 30 novels, 14 plays, 60 short stories and over a 100 non-fiction essays as well as many more collaborations with Dickens. 
   
  In 1884 the Society of Authors elected him as it’s Vice-President. 
   
  Wilkie Collins died from a paralytic stroke on September 23rd, 1889, in London. He was 65.

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