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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 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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  The Walled Garden - A Novel

  Robin Farrar Maass

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  American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters—and when an elderly English aristocrat with a secret connection to Elizabeth offers Lucy access to a neglected walled garden on his estate, the mystery deepens. As spring turns to summer in Bolton Lacey, Lucy finds herself fighting the Blackspear Gardens’ director’s attempt to deny her access to vital documents in the archives . . . and trying not to fall in love with an attractive Scottish contractor. In the midst of this turmoil, she stumbles upon an illicit plot to turn the historic gardens into a theme park, and becomes determined to stop it. As she races against time to save the gardens, Lucy’s search for the truth about Elizabeth’s life leads her to a French convent where she uncovers explosive evidence that will change her life and the lives of everyone around her, ultimately revealing a home—and an inheritance—more incredible than anything she could ever have imagined.

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  Mason Jar Mishap The: A Cozy...

  Hang Nguyen

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  🫙 Canning expert and farmers' market vendor Berry Sweet is preparing for the annual Harvest Festival when the town's organic certification inspector is found dead in her pantry, surrounded by shattered mason jars of her prize-winning preserves. The police suspect a tragic shelving collapse, but Berry notices the broken jars form a suspicious pattern and the victim's clipboard contains coded notes about local farm violations. With her organic status suspended and her business in jeopardy, Berry must preserve her reputation by solving the case. Assisted by her gardening club friends and the handsome local extension agent, Berry uncovers a plot involving pesticide fraud, fake organic labels, and a black market for heirloom seeds. From suspicious seal patterns that indicate tampering to jam colors that reveal unusual ingredients, every preserved clue points toward a killer with deep roots in the farming community. But when Berry discovers the victim was about to expose a conspiracy that threatened every small farm in the county, she realizes the killer is someone she's traded recipes with for years. With the Harvest Festival approaching and the real culprit still canning their schemes, Berry must jar the truth loose before she becomes the next preserved piece of evidence.

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  Live Fire

  Craig Martelle

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  Training is key to performance. Train to win. 
  Ian Bragg remembered his first hit when he had little experience. He didn’t wish that on others. It would expose them. It would put the Peace Archive at risk. 
  In the outskirts of Atlanta, Ian and Jenny bring together a select group of operators, loyal and dedicated, to train on a live contract. 
  Winner takes home the big prize – a million dollars, tax-free. The others get a payout based on the ingenuity of their engagement because the Peace Archive won’t tolerate losers. They drive everyone to be better than they were the day before. 
  In the real world, every contract is a challenge. 
  What if the target has no intention of accepting his fate? 
  Ian and Jenny have to react to rapid changes as their operators-in-training go up against a seasoned contract used to being the target. 
  He has survived every day of his life. Will tomorrow see him rise again? Check out Ian Bragg today.

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  Double Scoop of Murder

  Lena Gregory

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  From author Lena Gregory comes a hunt for more than just treasure . . . 
   
   
   
  Danika Delany is loving running her uncle's old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island and putting her own modern spin on the treats they serve. Life is finally looking up for her! That is, until local billionaire Maxwell Crumbholtz dies and leaves his fortune in the form of a treasure hunt. Chaos descends on Watchogue, and Dani and the rest of the gang from the Coffee & Cream Café join the melee when they enter the contest, try to decipher the clues, and go in search of the treasure. But Dani digs up more than she expected when she discovers a dead body buried instead of a treasure! To make matters worse, a witness claims to have seen Dani at the scene of the murder. Now, instead of a four-billion-dollar payday, Dani is on the hunt for a killer.

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