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A Being Otherwise
Wayne Hrovat is a quintessential cog-in-a-wheel; at forty-one, he has worked as an accountant in the bowels of Ford Motor Company for fifteen years. He is unmarried and lives with his ailing eighty-something mother.He is also mildly schizophrenic.
When downsizing costs him his position, he takes a consulting job at a manufacturing plant in rural Michigan and discovers that the town has a dark history of unsolved murders and lost persons. He soon finds that he is both an outsider and an integral part of the continuing nightmare.
As the story progresses, it becomes clear that his damaged psyche has been annexed by an opportunistic demon, and the two mental states joust inside until the climactic ending.
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A Careful Death for Some
Merrydale is a small village. Nothing ever happens there.
A fundraising team of six villagers decide to hold a summer event of a Safari Supper. Selected houses hold different meal courses but Death visits one of the houses on the night of the supper.
More deaths follow. How are they connected and what do they have in common?
With the help of some of the villagers, the fundraising team decide to hold their own investigations as the police appear to be at a loss in finding any connection between the victims, who have died in completely different ways.
In the meantime there is a bail absconder who is hanging around the village. Is this person connected with the deaths?
The village sleuths need to find some answers before anyone else dies.
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A Common Murder
The only place they could be hidden from view was in the wooded area to his left. He called again, this time he heard a whine, and it came from the wooded area, he hoped to God that neither dog had got itself injured and tangled up amongst the brambles. Vet bills were costly. On getting to the edge of the wood he could make out the dogs sitting among them, them being golden labs enabled James to see them. It was obvious that neither dog could not or would not come to him, so concerned he went through some of the bushes and trees to find the dogs sitting by a large sack or something, then he realised it was a body.
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A Death Most Dastardly
Baron Randolf Bukeligh has been found by the butler in the library with a hook in his mouth and hands tied with fishing line. The baron, struggling to keep the estate going, had held a house-party in order to try and get things back on track. Being murdered hadn’t been part of the plan!
Inspector Baker, new to Whitby CID, is called in to work with local Sergeant Davies in order to discover who the culprit is. They are aided by a group of students who have just completed their degrees and had been hoping for a quiet holiday exploring the Yorkshire countryside.
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A Good Rest for Some
Good Rest Care Home, “A luxury converted manor house where residents are well looked after by experienced, caring and compassionate staff. Let your loved ones stay here in safety, in superbly decorated accommodation single en suite bedrooms are decorated to a high standard and residents are encouraged to bring in their own possessions to personalise their rooms.”
A country home where residents are safe... aren't they?
Things go badly wrong when residents start losing their possessions from their rooms. And when four residents die, the deaths are attributed to natural causes. But three members of staff are not convinced, so they undertake their own investigation.
With an unconcerned manager and a mysterious doctor, the three discover that the residents are not in safe hands and are in danger of dying before their time.
Who is the person or persons responsible? Can the three staff members find out before any more untimely deaths?
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A Nasty Way To Die
Revenge and retribution have struck down four violent men. Investigations into their past had shown them to have been officers in Salazar's feared secret police. They had committed monstrous crimes against innocent people during that repressive regime.
Now was the time of reckoning and they are being systematically killed in England, Portugal, The Netherlands and Germany - but by whom?
Met detectives Sam Redwood and Julia Tremaine travel to Lisbon to join the Policia Judicaria in the search for the killers.
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A Question of Identity
Sally Barton, a lively thirty-something Yorkshire ex-patriot, has long settled into her niche as an assistant librarian in the University of West Lancashire. She had found a life for herself in Ormsbury when a new member of staff, Ralph Armstrong, an English lecturer, brings a breath of fresh Yorkshire air into her life. After an initial disagreement, she finds that her expertise in her hobby of family history is required to help solve the mystery surrounding Ralph’s background, a mystery that has been bugging him and which needs solving before he can move on. Family history questions take time to unravel as they involve delving deep into documents and mythology, but eventually the mystery, which involves a crime, murder and some disturbing revelations, is finally solved. Working together with humour and understanding, Sally and Ralph find that the quest develops into a relationship neither had been expecting and together they face many problems before the conclusion.
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A Question of Time
It’s November 1967, and when a girl’s body is found in the burning embers of a fire in a farmer’s field in Cheshire, DCI Sheraton begins a complex investigation. When a second body is found a short time later, the hunt now commences for a possible serial killer. Though, are the two really connected?
With murder, hidden secrets and revenge, all combining in this fast-moving thriller, is it just a question of time before the crimes are eventually detected?
There are several twists and turns in this latest entertaining crime thriller by David McCaddon, which is sure to delight his readers and keep them gripped until the very last page.
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A Secret Existence
Ben Swan, a young British detective chief inspector working with the Counter Terrorism Command in Ireland, is recruited by the UK Security Service, also known as MI5. His police rank is suspended and he operates as a full member of the Service. He is given a new cover identity. His police background is not disclosed to his new colleagues. In accordance with MI5 policy, all members operate with a cover identity. He is involved in tracking down terrorists intent on initiating a major bombing campaign and a detailed investigation into the activities of a group of international criminals operating in the UK involving ex-KGB personnel. With this dangerous work he relies on the professionalism, loyalty and trust of his fellow officers. Yet, he knows nothing about their true identities, families or background. If a member is killed on active service, nothing is made public and there is an apparent absence of grieving within the Service. He finds the anonymity of his existence difficult to accept and this is the theme that runs through the novel. Hence the title: A Secret Existence.
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A Stranger's Keep
Michael’s world crumbled the week after his honeymoon; his wife was murdered, his best friend betrayed him, and in his line of work, no trust meant death.
With no one to trust, Michael lived in peaceful solitude, till a stranger stumbled into his home and led him to the truth behind his wife’s murder.
Chased by those who murdered her parents for reasons she couldn’t explain, Abigail found shelter in the house of a stranger, unbeknownst to her, she had just stumbled into the lion’s den.
Could he love her and his late wife together? Could he forgive her connection with the death of his wife? Did they ever have a chance at all?
Life gives us chances, it’s our choice to make use of them, or hold on to the past…
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A Vanished Hand
What do you do when the ghost of a serial killer taps you on the shoulder and follows you home? Haunted and accused of her secretary’s murder, Kate turns to her glamorous, psychic friend Jane and the mysterious witch Diana. Can they uncover the identity of the nineteenth century serial killer so that celestial justice may take its course? Snow is falling on the ancient walls of Kate’s home town; darkness descends and time is running out…
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Absent
What happens when you find yourself living a nightmare that you thought only happened to other families? Or that you thought only ever happened in a TV drama?
The Spencer family are a hardworking, unassuming, contented, ordinary family – a mother, a father, and three offsprings.
Nothing different from anyone else. Until one night, a tragedy unfolds, and their ordinary lives are thrust into total disarray.
What they all once knew has all but gone, and now their lives are one big sequence of hurt, upset, uncertainty, and, above all … hope.
A roller coaster of emotions that seem to have no end.
This story expresses courage, strength, love, and what can happen when a family pulls together and never gives up hoping.
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