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Midnight and Blue Ian Rankin. John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now, he’s going to join them…. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head. That is until a murder […]

Swift River Essie Chambers. An incredible blend of intimate and epic – Curtis Sittenfeld. Summer 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sisteen-year-old Diamond Newbury is desperately lonely.  It’s been seven years since her father disappeared, and while her mother is determined to move on, Diamond can’t

How James Became King: The True Story of James ‘King’ O’Malley Brian O’Malley. ‘King’ O’Malley is known to history as a ‘larrikin’ and maverick politician, member of the first Australian Federal Parliament and Federal Minister, whose political career spanned two decades.  Arriving from America in the late 1880s he quickly drew attention through his public

In the Margins Gail Holmes. We are the spaces between the words. England 1647.  As civil war gives way to an uneasy peace and Puritanism becomes the letter of the law, Frances Wolfreston, a rector’s wife,is charged with enforcing religious compliance by informing on her parishioners.  This awful task triggers memories of her mother, Alice,

Burn it all Down TG Reid. If you play with fire… When fire crews are called to a blaze at the home of a Kilwinnoch GP they make a grisly discovery: the charred remains of the doctor and his entire family.  But is this a tragic accident or an horrific, calculated murder?  DCI Duncan Bone’s