THEIR PERFECT DIVORCE WAS FALLING APART! Valentine's Day, the most romantic day of the year. It should have been the first wedding anniversary of Synnamon and Conner Welles -- instead, it was the day their divorce would be finalized! The arrangement was perfectly amicable: no tears, no recriminations... Their marriage of convenience was over. But somehow their civilized plans kept going awry. Synnamon's first mistake was to fall in love with her husband -- for real! Her second was to find herself pregnant with Conner's baby... Only, Synnamon didn't see it as a mistake. She wanted that baby -- what she didn't want was a husband staying with her out of duty. But Conner insisted. The perfect divorce was off. He was determined they should become the perfect family! Views: 66
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Simon Brett introduces a sparkling new series of crime whodunnits starring the redoubtable Carole Seddon and her worldly wise accomplice, Jude.
Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a self-contained retirement settlement on England’s southern coast. Which is precisely why Carole Seddon has chosen to reside there. So the last thing Carole expects to encounter in Fethering is a new neighbour with but one name and an obviously colourful past. ‘Jude’ was not really Fethering…but neither was the body Carole found on the beach. A body, it has to be said, that has disappeared by the time the police arrive. Only Jude is ready to believe what her neighbour says she saw – and from that moment on, the two women are resolved to turn detectives. Views: 66
When innocent Angie Stark takes the fall for her Porsche-driving boyfriend's stock fraud, she finds herself entombed in Wrigley Scrubs, an experimental white-collar prison. Wrigley is a modern-day do-the-girls hall, ruled with a firm hand by the governor, Miss Horsfall, and complete with tight uniforms and ferocious cat-spats - the first often shredded by the second! Once there, she forms a thrillingly perverse bond with wardress Isobel Coker. But Isobel is having doubts about the regime. Will Angie be able to reassure her of its redemptive effects? And why is worldly, assertive Abby Gaunt, porn-film entrepreneur, sniffing around the prison's lease? Views: 66
Meet Chief Inspector William Wisting, Head of CID in Larvik, Norway, the latest unforgettable import from Scandinavian crime fiction. An experienced policeman who is familiar with the dark side of human nature, he lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world. A police report of a shoe containing a severed foot washed up on the sand introduces CI William Wisting. Soon a second is washed up, but it is another left. Has there been some kind of terrible accident at sea? Does it indicate the killing and dismembering of two victims? Is there a link with the unsolved mystery of a number of disappearances in the Larvik area in recent months? In this gripping police procedural, Wisting gradually gets to the bottom of the mystery with the help of his all too human colleagues and his journalist daughter, Line. Views: 66
A mysterious book of prophecies written by a 6th century Irish monk has puzzled scholars through the ages. Foretelling wars, plagues and rebellions, the Black Book of Bran is said to have predicted the Black Death and the Gunpowder Plot. But is it the result of divine inspiration or the ravings of a madman?A hidden hoard of Saxon gold. A poisoned priest. A monk skinned alive in Westminster Abbey. Only one thing is certain: whoever comes into possession of the cursed book meets a gruesome and untimely end. Views: 66
