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The Bookseller of Paris, by Suzanne Kelman

1940, French bookseller Madeline discovers that her late husband had a son in Germany, making the boy half Jewish and in danger under Nazi rule. Meanwhile she is also enlisted by the Resistance to save banned books. 2011, Olivia discovers a photo of her great grandmother with a Nazi and wants to find the truth […]

Poison Memories, by Helen Phifer

Margery Lancaster tried to kill her abusive husband and their baby son. She went to prison and served her sentence but now she is targeted by a killer. The chief suspects are her ex husband and now grown up son. One dies before he can be investigated and the other is missing… Poison Memories is […]

Forgotten Girls, by D.K. Hood

TRIGGER WARNING: child sex abuse and trafficking FBI agent Beth Katz has been searching for her partner Dax’s lost sister who vanished years ago. Finally she has found Ginny but it isn’t the reunion she and Dax wanted. Ginny has been brainwashed by her captor and helps him to traffic other girls for a paedophile […]

Firewatching, by Russ Thomas

Gerald Cartwright disappeared six years ago but his body isn’t found until his son starts renovation work on the family home. Gerald was still alive when he was bricked up behind a new wall… Firewatching is the first book in the DS Adam Tyler series of police procedurals. Adam Tyler struggles to fit in at […]

The Painter, by Stewart Giles

The world is coming out of lockdown. Smith is bored and not had any murders to investigate for months as criminals stay indoors. Now a clever killer is on the loose, murdering women and leaving their portraits behind… The Painter is the 28th book in the DS Jason Smith series set in York. A woman […]