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2020
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Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton. But today the driver sees something that changes his life: A dead body hangs in the tunnel's exit.
DI Caroline Hills knows this isn't a suicide. It's murder. And when a second apparent suicide appears in Rutland, Caroline uncovers a shocking link: the victims knew each other.
As Rutland Police fight to catch the killer, a group...
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2021
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Book three in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft.
A body is found under Welland Viaduct on a bitterly cold winter morning. But this will be a murder investigation like no other. As DI Caroline Hills and DS Dexter Antoine begin to unravel the dark secrets in the victim's life, they find themselves sucked into a web of lies and betrayal. Rutland Police need to find the killer before it's too late. But with Caroline's...
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Joan Lurie has written an article exposing a newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator. The night it goes live, she is attacked. Traumatized, she moves into a highly secure apartment called the Refuge. Lillian Day is Joan's new 96-year-old neighbor. In 1941, Lillian witnessed a murder that sent her into hiding, and she hasn't come out since. Melissa Osgood has questions about her husband's recent death. When she discovers a paper trail he left behind,...
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A dysfunctional New England family struggles toward normalcy and follows the children of resentful, controlling, Paulette and distracted, needy Frank. Even during a childhood in idyllic Cape Cod, there are hints of a rocky future. When that future arrives, Billy, the most successful of the children, keeps a secret about his sophisticated New York life from almost everyone. Scott, formerly the uncontrollable brat of the bunch, sees himself in his own...
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"When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity,...
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[2024]
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"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
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2014.
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When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her ex-best friend from college has been killed in a car crash, her life is turned upside down. Her relationship with Sally had been an exhilarating roller-coaster ride, until a shocking betrayal drove them apart. But if Sally had really turned her back on their friendship, why is her little girl named Olivia?
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Toni, the surviving teenager, is found deliriously wandering the muddy fields of the fens. She has been drugged and its uncertain whether shell survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if shes still alive . . .Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach.And how does this all relate to the shocking disappearance of a little girl nearly a decade...
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2021.
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"On a warm summer's day by the English seaside, twenty-three-year-old Freya spies a pale, pillared house: Byrne Hall. Before she can think twice, she's stepped inside to an ornate foyer featuring a striking portrait that evokes her late sister Stella, whose untimely fall from a cliff years before still haunts Freya and her father. When an inexplicable longing leads her back to Byrne Hall several weeks later, she meets Cory, a handsome and enigmatic...
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