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  CrimeFest - Leaving the Scene...

  Adrian Muller

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  Twenty superb new crime stories have been commissioned specially to celebrate the final CrimeFest, described by the Guardian as 'one of the fifty best festivals in the world'.
  Sixteen years of murder, mystery, and mayhem – CrimeFest stands as a cornerstone of crime fiction, uniting the genre's finest minds. Now the most distinguished names in crime writing have collaborated to commemorate this milestone with an exceptional anthology of meticulously crafted short stories.
  Featuring contributions from globally renowned authors and compelling new voices – including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Vaseem Khan, and Ruth Dudley Edwards – this collection represents essential reading for connoisseurs of crime.
  CrimeFest: Leaving the Scene, offers a worthy celebration of the festival's remarkable heritage.
  All royalties are donated to the RNIB library.

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  The Dead Hand - A man is offered...

  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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  Crime in the School

  Catherine Moloney

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  Handsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It’s known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham’s instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of a student? Could there even be a connection with the staff? It seems unthinkable. After all, DI Gilbert Markham’s girlfriend Olivia teaches English at the school. Markham’s team probes deeper, and the local community begins to turn against Markham. Somebody in a position of power is hiding appalling information. More blood will be spilt before their secrets are laid bare. Please note this book was first published as Blood Will Have Blood.

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  The Idol House of Astarte - A...

  Agatha Christie

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  When a group of friends gathers at a remote Dartmoor estate for an evening of ancient rituals and playful mystery, the night takes a deadly turn. A man lies dead, struck down as if by some unseen force. Is it murder or something far more sinister? 
  In The Idol House of Astarte, Agatha Christie delivers a gripping blend of intellect and eeriness, where superstition meets cold logic and every guest hides more than they reveal.

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  Taken - An utterly addictive...

  Danielle Ramsay

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  Every mother's worst nightmare... Don't miss the brand-new, pulse-pounding thriller, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden! 
  'Had me glued to the pages' Keri Beevis 
  I am accused of the worst of crimes – murdering my baby – and I have hours before this passenger ferry docks in Spain to find him, alive. 
  Someone knows about my difficult past and darkest secrets, and now I think they’ve taken my baby. But who would do this to me and why? I know the answer. Or at least I think I do… 
  The police want to know why I have fled my home and husband. How do I tell them that I had a breakdown after my first baby died? That today is the anniversary of his death? That my husband is planning on having me sectioned? 
  Despite what my husband says, I’m not ill. Am I? For I have discovered he has an agenda… 
  So how could I have been so wrong about him? 
  And how do I convince the police I’m innocent, when everyone believes I’m guilty, and get my baby back before he disappears forever? 
  A completely addictive read for fans of Freida McFadden, Louise Candlish and Adele Parks 
  Praise for Danielle Ramsay: 
  'Bold, brutal, and utterly compelling! My heart was pounding every step of the way. Highly recommended!' A.A. Chaudhuri 
  'A heart pounding read.' Keri Beevis 
  'A truly terrifying tale of destruction and survival.' Valerie Keogh 
  'A gripping story, a brilliant writer, an easy five stars from me.' John Nicholl 
  'A real page-turner.' Gemma Rogers 
  'An excellent portrayal of a living nightmare - it will chill you to the core.' Diane Saxon

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  Epitaph for Jezebel An

  L. Divine

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  An Atlanta investigative reporter who speaks for those without a voice. A female-owned strip club famous for treating its performers as well as its customers. But when one popular dancer is ritualistically murdered, reporter Keke McCoy’s investigation won’t leave hers—or anyone’s—secrets safe, in the first of a thrilling mystery series by L. Divine … 
   
  When Keke starts looking into secretive stripper Monaka’s grisly death, she’s instantly caught between her past and her present. Through The Honey Pot club owner “Honey Mama’’ Thiboudeaux, Keke found refuge from the streets, earned much money from her stage persona “Brandy,’’ and got a chance at a new life all her own. Her bombshell exposé about the club launched her reporting career. But it caused a bitter, seemingly irrevocable split between her, the only family she’s ever known—and Drew, the one man Keke won't admit she's never gotten over … 
   
  At Honey Mama request, Keke goes undercover as Brandy to find the truth before political pressures shut the progressive club down for good. But Keke has to watch more than her back when she finds Monaka had an unshakable, dangerously elusive stalker, an illicit club sideline—and vicious conflicts with rival dancers.  
   
  Even more explosive, Keke’s persistence is putting her at odds with Drew, now a police detective working this case … and the secrets she herself can no longer hide. 
   
  Now with the clock fast ticking down, Keke must tantalize the killer with the one lure he—or she—can’t resist. But using fantasy as a trap could put more than her pursuit of justice on the line—it risks ending her career and life for good …

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