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A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret • 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs • 2014. Iris, a journalist, is sent to cover the story of a new mother on the run with her desperately ill baby. But fatefully the trail leads to the childhood home of Iris's own mother, Rebecca...Seaview Cottage • As Iris races to unravel what happened the night Rebecca's parents were killed, it's time for Seaview Cottage to give up its secrets

In her terraced house in Liverpool, Molly Bennett struggles to bring up four children on her husband's meagre wage. But Molly doesn't complain; she has an abundance of things money can't buy - and a home filled with love and laughter. When her eldest daughter, Jill, is offered a place at high school, Molly is racked with guilt. She needs Jill working to relieve their poverty. But Jill eases Molly's conscience by getting herself a job in a baker's shop while signing up for night school. Molly's best mate is Nellie McDonough; they spend hours laughing, gossiping and lending a helping hand to others. And when they discover one of their neighbours is being beaten by her violent husband, the friends roll up their sleeves and take action. Meanwhile, Jill starts dating Nellie's son, Steve, and both families are delighted

Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead • Home to the Montagues, Battle has caught the paranoid eye of King James. The Catholic household is rumoured to shelter those loyal to the Pope, disguising them as servants within the abbey walls. And the last man sent to expose them was silenced before his report could reach London • Daniel Pursglove is summoned to infiltrate Battle and find proof of treachery. He soon discovers that nearly everyone at the abbey has something to hide - for deeds far more dangerous than religious dissent. But one lone figure he senses only in the shadows, carefully concealed from the world. Could the notorious traitor Spero Pettingar finally be close at hand? • As more bodies are unearthed, Daniel determines to catch the culprit

Summer, 1942 • The Second World War rages on but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side • In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? • Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle

Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows in this captivating historical novel for readers of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor's Ashes of London and Kate Mosse • Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead • Home to the Montagues, Battle has caught the paranoid eye of King James. The Catholic household is rumoured to shelter those loyal to the Pope, disguising them as servants within the abbey walls. And the last man sent to expose them was silenced before his report could reach London • Daniel Pursglove is summoned to infiltrate Battle and find proof of treachery. He soon discovers that nearly everyone at the abbey has something to hide - for deeds far more dangerous than religious dissent

Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose lives it illuminates, and darkens. From a proud father regretting his lost love to a compromised French noblewoman, from a hanged girl to Vermeer’s own gifted daughter, Susan Vreeland’s beautiful and luminous tales link to form an evocative jewel

The Roman Empire's conquest of Britannia is under threat from within • A messenger on the streets of Rome has been intercepted and tortured, revealing a plot to sabotage the Roman army's campaign against Caratacus, commander of Britannia's native tribes. A treacherous agent's mission is to open a second front of attack against them and eliminate the two Roman soldiers who could stand in the way • Unwarned, the Prefect Cato and the Centurion Macro are with the Roman army pursuing Caratacus and his men through the mountains of Britannia. Defeating Caratacus seems within their grasp. But the plot against the two heroes threatens not only their military goals but also their lives • Includes 2 maps and Roman army organisation chart

За свою выдающуюся карьеру Энн Грэнджер написала множество чрезвычайно занимательных и захватывающих рассказов. В ознаменование ее тридцатилетия в качестве автора детективных романов 18 из этих захватывающих историй были собраны вместе, чтобы порадовать и увлечь поклонников детективов во всем мире • Рассказы Энн — от любопытного соседа, который никому не доверяет, до ревнивого племянника, защищающего свое наследство, и от призрака на круизном лайнере до студента Оксфорда, который не может убежать от своего прошлого, — переносят читателей с высокогорья Шотландии на скалистое побережье Корнуолла, из викторианской эпохи в наши дни • В каждой истории есть интригующая тайна, способная увлечь самого заядлого любителя криминала, что делает эту коллекцию достойной внимания! • Книга-сборник рассказов "Mystery in the Making" — отличный подарок для тех, кто любит триллеры и детективы

Skye Logan has been struggling to run her remote farm on Scotland’s west coast alone ever since her marriage fell apart. When a handsome stranger turns up looking for work, it seems that her wish for help has been granted • Rafe Carlisle is searching for peace and somewhere he can forget about the last few years. But echoes of the distant past won’t leave Skye and Rafe alone, and they begin to experience vivid dreams which appear to be linked to the Viking jewellery they each wear • It seems that the ghosts of the past have secrets . . . and they have something that they want Skye and Rafe to know

Йорк погрузился в тишину. Вместе с ним затих и книжный магазин Лавдей Кардью. В те времена, когда люди нуждались в книгах, чтобы расширить свои горизонты или найти спасение от своих страхов, все двери перед ними были закрыты. Затем пришло первое письмо • Розмари и Джордж состоят в браке уже 50 лет. Их время подходит к концу. Все, о чем они мечтают – это последнее совместное путешествие, в которое можно отправиться, не покидая свой садик в Уитби. Они ищут человека, который так же сильно любит книги • Эта ситуация помогла Лавдей понять, что вместе со своими помощниками она может помочь людям в такое непростое время. Они начинают рекомендовать своим покупателям книги, которые помогут им справиться со страхом, скукой, одиночеством и поднимут им настроение

Все началось с письма. Все закончилось историей любви • Каждый декабрь Джози отправляет из Лондона письма родителям, которых потеряла в рождественскую ночь много лет назад. Но в этом году все идет не по плану. Случайная встреча с красивым незнакомцем навсегда меняет ее жизнь • Макс, как и Джози, избегает рождественского сезона. Но это Рождество они проводят вместе. А потом Макс исчезает, не попрощавшись • В течение следующего года судьба будет сводить Джози и Макса в самых неожиданных местах: Нью-Йорк, Эдинбург, английский пригород. Оказывается, у Макса были все причины, чтобы уйти • Какой рождественский сюрприз приготовила для них судьба в этом году?

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction