Constable Faro is heading to Orkney to investigate the mysterious drowning of a champion swimmer. When the legend of the seal king's annual claim of a human bride becomes reality, Faro's holiday and his original secret mission turn into a nightmare.

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Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell is back with another case of wittily deduced murder.

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Allison & Busby are very proud to welcome John Wilcox and his hero Simon Fonthill to the list. Wilcox's historical adventures are a perfect read for fans of derring-do.

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Roads to War, Book 3

The head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove that Czechoslovakia is threatened with invasion, but mutual suspicions within secret service ranks make Jardine’s mission near impossible. Along the way he rediscovers old friends of dubious loyalty and makes new enemies of untested ruthlessness.

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A chance favor to a neighbor embroils Rose McQuinn in a dangerous mystery involving Royal history, the theatre world and even Rose’s own home in Edinburgh. Her investigations unveil the shadow of the past very much darkening the present.

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Thea Osborne is perhaps over-optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of her latest assignment – house-sitting for transatlantic reptile breeder Harriet Young.

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Thea Osborne travels to an isolated village for her next assignment. She immediately feels uncomfortable and her intuition is proved to be right when a local boy is found brutally strangled.

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As tensions simmer in the heat of colonial India, a prince and an English woman defy their societies’ prejudices to fall in love. But even as Salim and Rachael are drawn closer together, their privileged lives are about to be torn apart.

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As the community of Exeter celebrates Guy Fawkes night, one notable person is missing from the festivities: Joel Heygate, the stationmaster at Exeter St David’s railway station.

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Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack.

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Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: head-butted by a horse as she protested against the local hunt. The official verdict is that it was a freak accident. But when another protestor friend is expertly trampled to death by horse, and detective Den Cooper is sent to investigate, he faces a divided community.

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Inspector Lucas Rocco

A truck drops illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night. When one of them surfaces stabbed to death, Inspector Lucas Rocco must trace his fellow travellers. But trawling for illegal arrivals is a sensitive issue loaded with threats of civil unrest.

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A community divided after two unusual deaths, both involving protestors and horses...

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Set amidst the muck and mayhem of contemporary farming life, A Dirty Death is an entertaining and authentic mystery.

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A twentieth century classic with all the atmosphere of the swinging sixties.

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Inspector Robert Colbeck has his work cut out for him when his nemesis Jeremy Oxley escapes while en route to his execution. A game of cat and mouse ensues that will bring the Railway Detective far from his home in Victorian London across the sea to the new World and New York.

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The Roads to War, Book 2

Inter-war Europe is the charged backdrop for Ludlow’s latest historical series and in the second installment his hero, Cal Jardine, is caught up in Barcelona at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

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Reissued into a chic new cover style and format, Michael Bond's culinary sleuth Pamplemousse continues to give immense joy to his fans.

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With interest in Sherlock Holmes at an all-time high, June Thomson’s latest delving into the great detective’s papers is particularly well-timed.

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Crusades, Book 1

The follow-up to the popular Conquest series, in which the de Hauteville dynasty continues on its rise to ultimate influence.

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Sangeeta's debut novel, The World Beyond, established her as a successor to the sweeping historical romances of MM Kaye.

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Home Front Detective Book 1

London 1915. The sinking of the Lusitania sparks an unprecedented wave of anti-German attacks. Among the victims are the immigrant tailor Jacob Stein. Initially Jacob’s killing appears to be the tragic excess of wartime hysteria – but for Detective Inspector Marmion the possibility that the assault was long-premeditated becomes unavoidable

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London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien motherland. Liberal England is about to discover the legacy of Empire.

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The third book in Magson's 1960s French mystery series sees the criminal underworld of London come to the attention of Inspector Lucas Rocco.

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Free from jail, John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole – they want bloody revenge and are prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth to get it.

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This fictional biography celebrates the most famous friendship ever recorded. In the course of tracing its development, June Thomson gives fascinating insights into the personalities of these two very different individuals whose relationship was to last for over forty-six years.

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Home Front Detective, Book 2

As the Great War rumbles on, London, or the Home Front. serves as a tense backdrop for Marston's latest mystery series. The war is always uncomfortably close at hand and never more so than when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death.

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The garlic-laden winds of change are blowing through the vineyards of Burgundy, and Monsieur Pamplemousse, along with his faithful companion Pommes Frites, will find skullduggery aplenty among the vines.

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Michael Bond’s much-beloved sleuth turned food inspector is enjoying the prospect of well-earned break at Le Guide’s expense when the arrival of a dismembered body on the scene put paid to the holiday mood.

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Frankie Love, new to his profession as a ponce, seems to run his illegal life on strictly fair principles. Ted Justice, recently appointed member of the vice squad, finds his upholding of the law complicated by love for his girl…

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As the dust settles after the dubious success that was the Glorious 1st June 1794, John Pearce is kept busy by the French Revolutionary forces and the tangled state of his own affairs.

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Another cache of manuscripts are unearthed from a battered dispatch box long-ago deposited with a London bank and the great detective, Sherlock Holmes lives again in the case of the boulevard assassin, the theft of the Vatican cameos and many more.

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An absolute must for fans of Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories, June Thomson breathes life back into 221B Baker Street with another seven cases which came into the possession of the famous Dr Watson’s namesake.

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Concealed in a bank vault, some of Dr Watson’s accounts of Sherlock Holmes’ most brilliant cases never saw the light of day...until now that is.

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Crusades, Book 2

On his mission to wrest territory for himself, through a maze of smiling villains and shifting alliances, one man will come to play the deciding role in Bohemund’s story, the wily Emperor, Alexius Comnenus

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1709. France’s people are starving and her army is weakened by desertions. King Louis XIV is searching for peace on almost any terms. Captain Daniel Rawson is sent on a dangerous mission to seek out vital information that could secure an advantageous peace deal for England.

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When Vanessa Duncan first turned detective and discovered the true identity of a murderer amid the hallowed halls of Cambridge academia, her act of courage did not go unnoticed. Four years later, she is called upon to prove the innocence of a woman accused of murdering her husband.

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Cousins Sylvie and Nell have always been rivals. But when the Nazi occupation of France maroons Sylvie with Nell’s family, and throws both girls into the path of the same man, RAF officer Alex Hammond, the competition heats up.

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Cambridge, 1888. Miss Vanessa Duncan, a young schoolmistress, is enjoying her work and the intellectual atmosphere that pervades the town when things take a dramatic turn with the murder of a Fellow of Mathematics.

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