Prayers for the Dead (Decker/Lazarus Novels, #9) (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, #9)
by Faye Kellerman
Dr Azor Sparks is a genius. A famous surgeon set to transform the chances for heart transplant patients. He's also a pillar of the local church and a devoted family man. So who would want to murder him? The answer, Lt. Peter Decker concludes, is many people. Sparks was obsessed by religion and his medical crusades.Yet he had odd hobbies, like riding with a pack of bikers. His family, too, is not harmonious. The influence of Bram, the son who defied his Protestant father to become a Catholic prie...
Harlequin Heartwarming June 2017 Box Set
by Patricia Johns, Carol Ross, and Loree Lough
Two sisters. One town. Terrible secrets. Susan; beautiful, disturbed and living in squalor, she wanders around the town, mute and accusing, an object of lust, fear and derision, the town witch, the town's guilty secret. Liz; years younger than Susan, in her last year of high school, worried about her looks, her weight, how popular she is, whether she will ever escape from Bedford and above all why her sister hates her so much. You see, she can't stop dreaming about Susan, vividly, horrifically...
"Welcome to Gold Valley, Oregon, where a rough-and-tumble rancher and the girl next door are about to learn that opposites attract"--Page 4 of cover.
THE TOUGHER HUNTER WAS… The harder he was bound to fall. But that didn't stop rugged mercenary Devlin Hunter from shrugging off his boss's order to partner up with pretty Kulani Dawson on his latest mission. After all, a man had his pride–and this man worked alone. But Kulani wasn't about to let Dev stalk off into dangerous territory without a guide. And after a few nights fraught with danger–and filled with passion–Dev's biggest battle was keeping hi...
A practical-minded police chief and his first love get a second chance at romance in this novel in the Bayberry Island series. Every instinct told Police Chief Clancy Flynn that his island’s claim to fame was nothing but a silly tourist attraction. But now and then, he couldn’t help but wonder if his lifetime of bad romances—starting with the pretty tourist who broke his fourteen-year-old heart—could be traced back to a childhood prank involving a mermaid statue... Then one day the pretty to...
A The Times best crime books of 2021 pick________________________What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Lapland?Early spring has its icy grip on Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar. They make for a peculiar family, and Liv knows that they are cause for gossip among thei...
The Long Call is the captivating first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take c...
Harlequin Western Romance January 2018 Box Set
by Cathy McDavid, Sasha Summers, and Amanda Renee
Capturing the toughness of young lives and love, this tale changes direction when a farm worker with a new family to feed loses his job , revealing a life-changing secret and his wasted talent in a world where he doesn’t fit. Capturing the toughness of young lives and love, this tale changes direction when a farm worker with a new family to feed loses his job , revealing a life-changing secret and his wasted talent in a world where he doesn’t fit.
Working as a Las Vegas concierge, Brianna Mannion is an expert at making other people's wishes come true. It's satisfying work but a visit home to scenic Honeymoon Harbor turns into a permanent stay when she's reminded of everything she's missing: the idyllic small-town charm, the old Victorian house she'd always coveted, and Seth Harper, her best friend's widower and the neighborhood boy she once crushed on hard. After years spent serving others, maybe Brianna is finally ready to chase dreams o...
SHE WAS A VIRGIN Kirsten Bond was a mother by virtue of adopting her late sister's child. No one knew Jeffrey wasn't really hers and she vowed never to reveal that his father was actually Rowe Sevrin, Viscount Aragon. But then she was assigned to work with the handsome viscount and she found herself falling for the enemy.... AND A MOTHER Rowe was puzzled by the flame-haired beauty's mixture of innocence and passion. As...
When You Least Expect It... P.I. Lauren Carter has worked hard to get where she is. So when the chance to seek out and bring home a top-notch business heir lands in her lap, Lauren is determined to do the job right. Too bad Duncan Bishop seems perfectly happy living in the sleepy ski town of Silver Creek, Nevada. And in truth, the magic of small-town living soon shrouds her in its protective embrace. Not only that, but spending so much time with Duncan has shake...
‘Dark, gripping and with a twist that leaves your breathless’ John Marrs He’s watching. She’s waiting. The unmissable new thriller from Darren O’Sullivan, author of Our Little Secret and Close Your Eyes. Having barely escaped the clutches of a serial killer, Claire Moore has struggled to rebuild her life. After her terrifying encounter with the man the media dubbed The Black-Out Killer, she became an overnight celebrity: a symbol of hope and survival in the face of...
Few kidnap victims grow up to become police officers - but this is exactly what Nina Foster did. Following a frenzied stabbing she is drafted into her first murder investigation. With former rescuer DCI Stan McGuire as her mentor and John ('Wingsy') Wing as her partner, she thrives on the pace and banter that go with the job. As the body count increases and the force's biggest-ever manhunt gets underway, Nina is determinded to find the murderer. But when the story of her own traumatic childho...
Camille Pascal, a young, unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and her small daughter, Zara, during the closing years of the apartheid regime. The family settles amongst a wine-growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the System. Interwoven with Camille's story is that of Jake Coleman, a painter with an international reputation, a deep-seated fear of failure, and a complicated private life. It is in the exclusive Jake Cole...
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ It's elk season in the Rockies, but a different kind of hunter is stalking prey in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series. Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp—strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to trac...
Dead Before the End of the Road (Kate Heikkinen Mysteries, #1)
by Christy Oslund
When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry...
From the author of the acclaimed debut Pretty Little Dirty comes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans. Babylon Rolling is a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what happens when forces collide in the boozy, humid city that care forgot. At once an exploration of ethnicity and a portrait of a city on the edge of annihilation, Babylon Rolling i...
MAYBE THIS TIME - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 3 BESTSELLER!'The queen of witty, heart-warming, feel-good love stories' Red 'A heartwarming treat from one of my favourite writers' Katie Fforde 'Reading Jill is always such a joy!' Veronica Henry'Compelling, thoughtful, emotionally intelligent book about love, friendship and not giving up' Daily Mail'Romantic, funny, heartwarming and heartbreaking... Jill Mansell always writes with wit and charm, cleverly introducing some serious issues into her novels, a...
Cornish Dreams at Cockleshell Cottage (Hiverton Sisters, #2)
by Liz Hurley
Readers are falling in love with Cockleshell Cottage... The characters are so believable that I yearn to belong to this family...could not put this book down.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'A perfect summer read!...The Byrne sisters are a complete delight!...fun and very unusual contemporary take on the aristocracy romance.' Reader Review Can running away be the solution? Paddy needs a rest. For years, her income as a model has been supporting her sisters but with their surprise inheritance she can h...
Wuthering Heights is the only published novel by Emily Bronte, written between October 1845 and June 1846[1] and published in July of the following year. It was not printed until December 1847, after the success of her sister Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A posthumous second edition was edited by Charlotte. The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimatel...