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List view record 41: The boot camp murderList view anchor tag for record 41: The boot camp murder
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The boot camp murder

Ross, Matthew2023
Books
Monica was on the corporate ladder striving to be a high-flying executive, but when the misogynistic bullying from the privileged pale stale males becomes too much she snaps and quits on the spot. At her lowest ebb, a chance remark from her charming slacker brother Paddy identifies a business opp...
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Death of a painter

Ross, Matthew2023
Books
When Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly seem a lot closer to home: was this a warning his debts are overdue? Suspected of being the killer and worried at being the intended victim, the murder only makes Mark's money problems worse, leading him t...
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Badlands

Preston, Douglas J.2025
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Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson investigate bizarre deaths in the New Mexico desert, but awaken an ancient evil. In the New Mexico desert badlands, a woman's skeleton is found with two rare artefacts clutched in her hands: lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Was it...
[2 copies, 1 reserve]
List view record 44: Dear Miss LakeList view anchor tag for record 44: Dear Miss Lake
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Dear Miss Lake

Pearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)2025
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London, July 1944. Journalist Emmy Lake's career is soaring: Woman's Friend magazine is a huge success, and she is finally realizing her dream of becoming a Lady War Correspondent. On the personal front, Emmy's husband Charles has been posted closer to home, and they and their friends Bunty and H...
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Dead to me

Lodge, Gytha2025
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Anna and Reid weren't meant to be, apparently. She's a fiery American journalist; he's a stoic British detective - it was nice while it lasted, and then it really wasn't. And Anna is over it now anyway. She's on the scent of a career-making story - a suspicious death amongst the cloistered elite ...
List view record 46: A mother's loveList view anchor tag for record 46: A mother's love
List view record 47: A deadly night at the theatreList view anchor tag for record 47: A deadly night at the theatre
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A deadly night at the theatre

Watson, Katy, 1966-2025
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Actresses Posy Starling and Caro Hooper both gained a name for themselves playing fictional detective Dahlia Lively on screen - but now they are back treading the boards in London's theatre district, starring in two very different plays. Their fellow Dahlia, Rosalind King, is in the city to catch...
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Annabel and her sisters

Alliott, Catherine2025
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Annabel and her sisters must decide what's best for their elderly mother, but her children have decided its time for her to put herself, and her love life, first. After years of caring for everyone else, Annabel must decide whether to continue to shun the idea of finding love again, or finally gi...
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A deadly inheritance

Vassell, Charlotte2025
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Detective Caius Beauchamp is dispatched to a double murder in a South London townhouse. It looks like a simple botched burglary, until Caius gets a tip-off about the well-heeled family's nefarious past. Which is worse: the body on the floor or the skeletons in the closet? Caius' own family circum...
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A neighbour's guide to murder

Candlish, Louise2025
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It's rare for a room in beautiful, iconic Columbia Mansions to be up for grabs and retiree Gwen is thrilled when its new occupant Pixie turns out to be the most delightful neighbour she could have wished for. Before long the two women have formed an unlikely age-gap friendship and Gwen is making ...
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