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A member of a folk-dance group is killed on the Yorkshire moors. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley comes into the case…
when a second dancer is killed and a third seriously injured. 1981.
A school teacher awakens from a coma and realizes that he can see the future. His second sight becomes a…
horror rather than a blessing, especially when he meets an unsavoury politician. Some strong language. 1983.
When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray…
and she finds herself making reckless decisions that make little sense to those around her. As she strives towards building some kind of future for herself and her father, he quietly plots his own death. 2010.
Set in eighteenth-century Japan. Someone is setting fires and killing geishas, and Samurai Judge Ooka needs an inside observer. He…
sends his adopted son, Seikei, under cover into a teahouse. Sequel to "The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn". Followed by "In darkness, death" (DC27555). Grades 5-8. 2001. (Judge Ooka series ; 2)
Overview of the violent upheaval in France from the convening of the Estates General in 1789 to Napoleon's rise to…
power in 1799. Emphasis is not on ideas, but on events and the personalities of Robespierre, Louis XVI, Mirabeau, Danton, and others. 1980.
To secure a job for her father on her benefactor's farm, nine-year-old Mary Ann Shaughnessy goes to boarding school. Once…
there she encounters loneliness, acquires enemies, and receives tearstained letters from her brother hinting that their father is having an affair. Sequel to "The Lord and Mary Ann" (DC24711). 1958. (Mary Ann Shaughnessy series ; 3)
When a soviet submarine runs aground in Swedish waters, detective Villalobos links the sub to a homicide in Los Angeles.…
Strong language, violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1983.
This book describes a number of intriguing incidents in the personal lives of the British Royal Family, dating back to…
the time of Queen Victoria. The family conflicts and the personal failings of a number of the royals have been magnified through the lens of the press, ever eager for fresh details with which to build the impression of scandal. 1995.
When a young studio manager is found dead in a BBC taping room with her wrists slashed, the police suspect…
suicide. But actor-sleuth Charles Paris, who happens to be on the scene, is nagged by a belief that Andrea was murdered. Some strong language. Sequel to “A comedian dies”, followed by “Situation tragedy”. 1980.
This collection of nine stories ranges widely across the time and space of the twentieth century, including amongst others a…
modern fable of Hollywood; a bizarre love affair between an Englishwoman and a Portuguese poet; and Vienna during the First World War. 1995.
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective…
John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well be linked. Some strong language. Sequel to "Forty words for sorrow", followed by "Blackfly season". 2003.
When Don Gillmor's grandmother broke her hip at the age of eighty, a family secret was revealed: her twin sister…
was not really her twin, but her aunt. The secret had been hidden since the family moved from Scotland to Winnipeg in order to escape the shame of her illegitimacy. The discovery of this secret prompted Gillmor to journey to Scotland and trace his family's history. 1999.
"The devil out there" comprises a novella, one long story and five short stories. Spanning three decades, these interconnected tales…
take the reader from pleasure to murder, from love to evil, from destruction to rescue and redemption, all of it lived, understood and misunderstood by a wide variety of characters in intensely described milieus. 2000.
New York D.A. Alexandra Cooper, last seen in “Cold Hit”, investigates the death of an anthropology professor being stalked by…
her ex-husband. New suspects emerge as Alex learns more about the woman’s colleagues and her interest in the ruins of a former island prison. Violence and strong language. 2001.
When Barnacle - so called on account of his amazing powers of holding on, falls down the wrong chimney into…
the midst of what is clearly a conspiracy, he is terrified and runs. In his panic, he grabs a locket from the table and soon has the relentless Inspector Creaker on his trail. Melodrama set in Victorian London. Grades 5-8. 1986.
In her home on Empire Avenue, Donna Whalen was stabbed 31 times. Her friends, family, and neighbours believed it was…
her abusive boyfriend, Sheldon Troke, but the evidence is all circumstantial, providing a daunting challenge for police and prosecutors - and the course of justice takes many unpredictable twists and turns before the truth is finally revealed. Based on a true story. Explicit strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2010.
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her…
younger self leads her back through her past. She must pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father, despite their mutual hatred. 2012.
This is the second book of Paul O'Grady's autobiography. As Paul struggles to get to grips with unexpected fatherhood and…
bereavement, he searches high and low for a job that lasts and somehow finds himself getting married in the process. Work takes him from an abattoir to a children's home, from a hospital to a nightclub, and from penthouse to pavement. Along the way, he develops his Lily Savage drag act, tastes the exotic delights of Manila and invades Poland. Includes strong language and violence. 2010.