By Lesley Kara
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When single mum Joanna shares a rumour she heard at the school gates – desperate to ingratiate herself with the clique of mothers at her son’s new school – there’s no going back . . .
Rumour has it that a notorious child killer is living under a new identity, in the small town of Flinstead-on-Sea.
Sally McGowan was just ten years old when she stabbed little Robbie Harris to death over forty-seven years ago. No photos of her exist since her release as a young woman.
So who is the supposedly reformed killer who now lives amongst them? How dangerous can one rumour become? And how far will Joanna go to protect her loved ones from harm, when she realizes what it is she’s unleashed?
Joanna is going to regret the day she ever said a word . . .
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Not all secrets are meant to be discovered . . . Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn(1)t supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. When she crosses paths by chance with Alice Grey, a young midwife, Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong. When Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. But is there more to Alice than meets the eye? As the two women(1)s lives become inextricably bound together, the legendary trial at Lancaster approaches, and Fleetwood(1)s stomach continues to grow. Time is running out, and both their lives are at stake. Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other.
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel’s life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori – a kind, lonely Japanese immigrant. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library, desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry.
As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures and opposing geniuses.
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Behind assassinations that change the course of history, there are always the plotters. Plotters are highly intelligent masterminds with the powerful watching their backs. Their plots are handed over to the assassins who then carry them out. Since the Japanese Colonization of Korea, Library of Dogs has been the most powerful organization of assassins.
Raesang is an orphan and an adopted son of Old Raccoon, the director of the library. There has never been a second option for Raesang other than being an assassin. With the advent of Korea’s democratization, Library of Dogs is pushed out to the margins of the plotting world by a new force headed by former Library member Hanja, who has succeeded in turning his organization into a corporate security company. When Raesang changes the assassination plot of a former general, things become tense between Hanja and the Library, and the conflict spirals out of control. Raesang had already lost two people to Hanja, the Trainer, a father figure to Raesang, and Chu, an assassin who was put on the blacklist for letting his target go. When his best friend Jeong-an is also taken out by Hanja and his henchman, the Barber, Raesang dissociates himself from the Library and becomes a free agent.
Mito, the female protagonist, is a prodigy who has lost her father to a plot. After a long period of preparation, she becomes a plotter’s assistant. When Mito approaches Raesang with her own scheme to overturn the plotting world, all hell breaks loose.
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Meet The Adults.
Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide that what’s best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a “normal” family Christmas. They can’t agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park, or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did–and it’s too late to pull the plug.
Claire brings her new boyfriend, Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance, Iron-Man-in-Waiting. Matt brings the new love of his life, Alex, funny, smart, and extremely patient. Scarlett, who is seven, brings her imaginary friend Posey. He’s a rabbit.
Together the five (or six?) of them grit their teeth over Forced Fun activities, drinking a little too much after bedtime, oversharing classified secrets about their pasts and, before you know it, their holiday is a powder keg that ends where this debut novel begins–with a tearful, frightened call to the police…
But what really happened? They said they’d all be adults about this…
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Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best – the meanest, dirtiest, most feared and admired crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld.
But their glory days are long past; the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk – or a combination of the three. Then a former bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help: his daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy horde one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Rescuing Rose is the kind of impossible mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for.
It’s time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld.
GUESS
WHO
A waitress. A cleaner. An actress. A lawyer. A student. Everyone is a suspect.
WHERE
In a locked room – with no escape, and no idea how they got there.
WHAT
In the bathtub, the body of a man they all knew. Someone murdered him. Someone in this room.
WHY
They have three hours to find out. Or they all die.
THE RULES ARE SIMPLE. THE GAME IS NOT
