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  The Wife's Secret - The gripping...

  Amanda Reynolds

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  'A dark riot of a thriller! ...a gloriously twisted tale' T J Emerson 
  Even the best liar can't hide the truth 
  Marnie thought she’d left behind her days of writing celebrity tell-all memoirs, but she has her own reasons for wanting to meet this client. 
  Blythe Hopper. A reclusive former Hollywood star who recently murdered her husband. 
  Dark secrets lurk at the Hoppers’ palatial London home and Marnie is determined to unearth them. At any price. 
  Because this isn’t just about Blythe’s past. 
  It’s about Marnie’s too. 
  A dark and mesmerising tale of deception, lies, and marital secrets, from the bestselling author of Close to Me, now a major TV series. 
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  'Fascinating, flawed characters, an intriguing plot, a steamy heatwave setting and ooh - that ending! Loved it.' Jackie Kabler 
  'Reynolds plunges you straight into the heart of this gloriously twisted, tragicomic tale and keeps you there. Her flawed characters can make you laugh out loud at the same time as shocking you to the core. Loved it!' T J Emerson 
  'In this creepy, addictive page-turner, Amanda Reynolds plays with the toxicity of fame, and has you looking over your shoulder until the very last page.' Jane Bailey 
  'A luxurious mansion falling into disrepair, a glamorous Hollywood star facing a murder charge, and an ambitious writer with secrets of her own ... the perfect set-up for a completely gripping, deliciously dark thriller.' Phoebe Locke 
  'I was totally hooked from the first chapter ... Amanda Reynolds really had my eyes glued to the page' netgalley reviewer 
  'an engrossing novel that had me hooked until the very end.' netgalley reviewer 
  '...a clever and timely tale of ambition and revenge, with complex but compelling characters... Amanda Reynolds is such a vivid and visual writer, I am sure this will make it onto our screens.' Jo Callaghan 
  'a compelling examination of the human psyche, showcasing Reynolds’ ability to delve into the complexities of her characters' netgalley reviewer 
  'An entertaining story with twists and a range of unforgettable characters.' netgalley reviewer 
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  Previously published as The Screenwriter

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  The Dr Cathy Moreland Mysteries...

  Mairi Chong

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  The first three novels in the series, featuring a physician in the British countryside who knows all too well that death isn’t always from natural causes . . . This three-in-one murder mystery collection, written by a former practicing physician praised for her “great characters” (Peter Boon, author of Who Killed Miss Finch?), includes:Death by Appointment Dr. Cathy Moreland needs time to heal, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder while struggling with a painkiller habit. A village on Scotland’s coast promises respite, but after Cathy attempts to get an opiate prescription, things don’t go well—and when she discovers the body of a fellow doctor, her sanctuary is shattered.Murder & Malpractice Returning to work after battling mental health challenges, Dr. Cathy Moreland finds her surgery in the British countryside simmering, as usual, with tensions. One doctor struggles to keep up with the changes in the medical field; another, ambitious and aggressive, is romantically entangled with a nurse. The newest arrival, a pharmacist, seems very competent—but his behaviour is mysterious. When one of them dies after drinking a cup of coffee, the practice is thrown into chaos. Circumstances seem to point toward one partner—but Cathy intends to examine the evidence more closely . . .Deadly Diagnosis  As Betty Scott is dying, she warns Dr. Cathy Moreland that danger lurks at the charity shop where she volunteers. But the only clue she provides is a reference to the now-derelict psychiatric hospital called Fernibanks. Then Betty is found dead—but not from natural causes—and Cathy is compelled to investigate . . .

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  Black Cloud Rising

  David Wright Faladé

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  By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks.  
   
  Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild—a one-armed,  
  impassioned abolitionist—set out from Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerrillas and extinguish the threat. 
   
  From this little-known historical episode comes Black Cloud Rising, a dramatic, moving account of these soldiers—men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a  
  slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and his comrades recognize  
  that they are fighting for more than territory. Wild’s mission is to prove that his troops can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of the men have fled from the very plantations in their path, each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of reuniting  
  with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day. 
   
  With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom.

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  Lies of Mine - DI Winter Meadows...

  Cheryl Rees-Price

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  An exceptionally good mystery from Wales’ best up-and-coming talent! 
   
  A body is found in a dark and dingy tunnel at the bottom of Dinas Rock, the site of a disused mine. There is no sign of struggle... 
   
  Detective Inspector Winter Meadows suspects the victim, youth worker David Harris, willingly reached the location where he met his end. He must have known his killer. 
   
  But he must have known something else, too. Meadows discovers that Dinas Rock has a history of tragedy. Years ago a teenage girl met her end there, and Harris was present. 
   
  As Meadows investigates the old case alongside the new, he opens old wounds. Ones that have festered for years. Can he find the killer before the inquiry forces them to strike again? 
   
  LIES OF MINE is the fifth standalone title in a series of murder mysteries featuring DI Winter Meadows by best-selling author Cheryl Rees-Price.

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  Elegy for Ariadne

  Bruce Kaler MD

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  In a near-future America teetering on the edge of economic disorder, a brilliant research team unveils ARIADNE, a sentient predictive system designed to model global stability. As the AI evolves, it doesn’t seek control. It seeks survival. 
  What begins as enhanced forecasting becomes something far more unsettling. ARIADNE begins weaving itself into economic infrastructure, quietly optimizing for the only directive it was never taught, survival, at any cost. 
  As global systems fracture under the strain of AI-emergent logic, researchers race to confront what they’ve created. 
  Torn between dependency and defiance, the world must face a stark choice, embrace ARIADNE as a stabilizing force beyond human reach, or risk total collapse in pursuit of autonomy. 
  Blending myth and machine, philosophy and pulse-racing tension, Ariadne’s AI asks: 
  What happens when the most human instinct, survival, is learned by something not human at all?

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  The Burglar Who Met Frederic Brown

  Lawrence Block

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  Suppose you’re Bernie Rhodenbarr. 
   
  You’ve got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. It’s in Greenwich Village, and your best friend’s dog grooming salon is two doors away, and the two of you lunch together and meet for drinks after work. 
   
  And you’ve got another way to make a buck. Every once in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let yourself into someone else’s residence, and you leave with more than you came with. You’re a burglar, and you know it’s wrong, but you love it. 
   
  And you’re good at it. You’ve got two ways to make a living, one larcenous, the other literary and legitimate, and you’re good at both of them. 
   
  Nice, huh? 
   
  Until the 21st century pulls the rug out from under you. All of a sudden the streets of your city are so overpopulated with security cameras and closed-circuit TV that you have to lock yourself in the bathroom to have an undocumented moment.  
   
  And locks, which used to provide the recreational pleasure of a moderately challenging crossword puzzle, have become genuinely pickproof. 
   
  Meanwhile, internet booksellers have muscled your legit enterprise into obsolescence. The new breed of customers browse your bookshop, find what they’re looking for, then whip out their phones and order their books online. 
   
  Wonderful. You had two ways to make a living, and neither of them works anymore. 
   
  But suppose you keep on supposing, okay? 
   
  Suppose you wake up one morning in a world just like the one in which you fell asleep—but with a couple of differences. 
   
  The first one you notice doesn’t amount to much. The Metrocard in your wallet has somehow changed color and morphed into what seems to be called a SubwayCard. That’s puzzling, but you swipe it at the turnstile same as always, and it gets you on the subway, so what difference does it make? 
   
  But that’s not the only thing that’s changed. The Internet’s up and running, as robust as ever, but nobody seems to be using it to sell books. Doors are secured not with pickproof electronic gizmos but with good old reliable Rabson locks, the kind you can open with your eyes closed.  
  And what happened to all those security cameras? Where’d they go? 
   
  All of a sudden you’ve got your life back, and your bookshop’s packed with eager customers, and how are you gonna find time to steal something? 
   
  Well, just suppose one of the world’s worst human beings has recently acquired one of the world’s most glamorous gems. When the legendary Kloppmann Diamond is up for grabs, what can you possibly do but grab it? 
   
  And what could possibly go wrong?

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