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Canongate Books Euphoria
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERNARD SHAW PRIZEA woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and yearning for so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power. She has decided to die, but the art she creates in her final weeks will set her name, and the world, ablaze.
£9.99
Canongate Books Ltd Tokyo Doesnt Love Us Anymore
A salesman for The Company searches hazily for his wife, grasping at memories just out of reach. One of Spain's most successful authors has produced a dizzying picaresque novel of drug-fuelled nights and wild sexual encounters: dealing with issues as diverse as loss, chemical dependency and the power of the multi-national conglomerates.
£13.46
Canongate Books Ltd Lights Camera Soundtracks
Martin Strong delves into the world of film in this celebration of popular music in the movies.
£10.71
Canongate Books Ltd Black Hammock
Homicide detective Daniel Turner revisits an 18-year-old unsolved case in the third of this intriguing and atmospheric crime noir series.We had set out from Atlanta to kill my mother and her husband. A slow kill.Oren has returned to the family home he last saw when he was eight years old. Eighteen years later, he is bent on an elaborate scheme of revenge.Homicide detective Daniel Turner was never able to forget the unsolved case, the disappearance of Amon Jakobsen all those years ago. Convinced the man was murdered, he was never able to prove it. Now he has returned to the isolated house on Black Hammock Island following reports of a disturbance. Is this his chance to find out what really happened to Amon eighteen years before? And will he be in time to prevent history repeating itself?
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Pet in Peril
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Canongate Books Ltd Buried in Beignets
Maggie Miller's attempt to run from her troubles leads her to Table Rock, Arizona, her own beignet café . . . and disaster.Welcome to Table Rock, Arizona, the place where folks who aren't too keen on the mainstream' move to. Maggie Miller has come here to forget about her dead husband. OK, so he isn't really dead. That's just what she tells everybody. Recently divorced, Maggie flees Phoenix and the sight of her husband and his new wife and moves to Table Rock to be closer to her own family. She's also planning on opening her own beignet and coffee business, Maggie's Beignet Café.But that dead guy in her storeroom might just put a kink in her plans. Unless she can figure out who killed him, and why, she might never open for business . . .
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Canongate Books Ltd No Second Chances
When a fellow officer is shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car, homicide detective Quentin Archer uncovers some surprising facts about the dead man's past. Is this a random cop killing, as he'd first supposed - or part of a carefully-orchestrated plan of revenge?
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Canongate Books Ltd The Poisoned Chalice Murder
Three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. Are they tragic accidents? Tom Dod's Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. All three took a stand against the new vicar of St Agnes Church and his controversial changes. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? Fran and Tom are soon plunged into a new mystery.
£18.89
Canongate Books Ltd When the Heather Blooms
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Canongate Books Ltd Season of Sacrifice
Maya sees two women set themselves ablaze. She's even more shocked to recognize one of them: Sylvie Burton, a scientist, who is the adopted sister of Maya's best friend. An onlooker says that the two women are martyrs, protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Yet, with so much to live for, why would Sylvie end her life in this horrific way?
£18.89
Canongate Books Ltd Frail Barrier
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Canongate Books Ltd Jack in the Box
£30.59
Canongate Books Ltd Tip Top
£17.99
Canongate Books Ltd A Thrust to the Vitals
£19.99
Canongate Books Ltd When Somebody Kills You
Eddie G. must discover why someone wants to kill him. His friends Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland are concerned for him, too.After Dean Martin saves Eddie G. from being hit by a car, Eddie's torpedo buddy Jerry arrives from Brooklyn with the news: somebody's put an open contract out on him. As anybody can cash it in, pros and amateurs alike are coming out of the woodwork to have a shot. So when Eddie is asked by Frank Sinatra to go to LA to help his friend, Judy Garland, with a problem she's having, Eddie and Jerry seize the opportunity to leave Vegas.Unfortunately the contract follows Eddie there. While doing his best to stay alive long enough to find out who hates him so much they want him dead, Eddie must also solve Judy Garland's problem of a possible stalker and blackmailer.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Echoes of Betrayal
£22.12
Canongate Books Ltd The Reluctant Sinner
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Canongate Books Ltd Goodbye Forever
Crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover and into danger - in the second of this intriguing crime series.17-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared apart from the note she left behind: I love you. Goodbye forever. It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note.With a personal family connection to the missing girl, crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle is determined to find out what happened to her. To do so, she must go undercover as a teenage runaway herself. Out on the streets, Kit is about to enter a violent, unpredictable world where life is held cheap and into the clutches of a dangerous psychopath
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Canongate Books Ltd Treason in the Secret City
Second in the exciting new World War II mystery series featuring intrepid research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark. 30th May 1944. In the middle of the night, Libby Clark is roused from sleep by a colleague in distress. Marvin's cousin Frannie has been charged with treason, and he hopes that Libby, with her clear-headed scientific mind, can find a way to help prove her innocence. Libby, a chemist at a secret World War II facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, agrees to help her friend and pursue the truth. Libby's investigations soon uncover the immoral Dr Hansrote, who has tricked Frannie into her treachery. But, the evil at Oak Ridge seems to run deeper and in Libby's determination to uncover the truth, she not only finds herself up against the authorities, but also caught in the crosshairs of a deadly cabal of indoctrinated spies, greedy opportunists and unscrupulous collaborators. Can Libby survive the confluence of challenges? Or will one of them
£10.35
Canongate Books Ltd Quicksand Tales
A hilarious, embarrassing collection of misadventures from the Costa-winning author of Dadland
£16.99
Canongate Books Ltd Execution
£23.33
Canongate Books Ltd Three Shot Burst
A man has been shot three times by a young girl. With nobody to help her, Foggy Moskowitz is forced to shelter her in his apartment. The victim was the son of the richest Seminole in Florida who sends several of his men to collect the girl and find out what happened. With some help from a Seminole mystic, Foggy realizes some disturbing truths.
£10.35
Canongate Books Ltd Dennys Law
The murder of a man during a Tucson Fourth of July street parade plunges Sarah Burke's whole household - including her niece, Denny - into her latest case. The investigation leads to a money-laundering ring with international connections, but could the answers lie closer to home than she realises?
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Out of Nowhere
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Canongate Books Ltd Windswept
Emily Harrington sets off on a romantic trip to the Caribbean without her delayed fiance, but soon meets an array of fascinating characters and finds friendship and tranquility - until one of them is murdered ...
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Into the Grey
I could kill Roland Fenderby. Grad student Dulcie Schwartz has reason to regret those words when she discovers Professor Fenderby's battered body in his office - and finds herself the prime suspect in the ensuing murder investigation. Some seems to be deliberately putting her in the frame for his death. Who - and why?
£13.40
Canongate Books Ltd Shadowed
Computer hacker Nicole Jones' finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy in this tense and twisting novel of identity and suspenseThe computer hacker formerly known as Nicole Jones is now living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Quebec, Canada. She is living a quiet life, working as an artist but she has not given up her computer. While in an online chatroom, she sees a shadow someone is inside her laptop, watching her every move, and somehow knows exactly who she is.Afraid that he will track her down, Susan is on the run again but from whom? Is it the FBI or someone associated with her past crime sixteen years before? Making her way across the border and back to the USA, some unsettling discoveries make Susan realize that she won't be able to escape her past a second time.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Soft Summer Blood
A seemingly open-and-shut case becomes increasingly complicated for Detective Inspector Liam McLusky in this intriguing police procedural.It all seemed so simple: a murder; an obvious suspect; a shaky alibi: DI McLusky never had it so good. Until a second killing challenges all his earlier assumptions. With every new piece of evidence McLusky brings to light, the case becomes more complicated. Does it have its roots in a disappearance eighteen years earlier, or is it firmly based in the present?Meanwhile, DI Kat Fairfield and DS Jack Sorbie are tasked with finding the daughter of a prominent Italian politician, who has disappeared while on a student exchange programme at Bristol University. Neither is overjoyed to be lumbered with a routine missing person's case while McLusky heads a high-profile murder investigation. Until they find a dead body of their own
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Canongate Books Ltd The Luzern Photograph
In this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder.In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud's Vienna presents Lou Salome with his own drawing based on the infamous photograph.In the present day, Tess Berenson, a brilliant performance artist, moves into an art deco loft in downtown Oakland, California. Her new apartment, she learns, was vacated in a hurry by a professional dominatrix who used the name Chantal Desforges. Tess's curiosity about Chantal intensifies when her body is discovered in the trunk of a stolen car at Oakland airport.Embarking on an obsessive investigation into the murder, Tess discovers a link to the original Luzern photograph and the 1913 drawing but
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Canongate Books Ltd Death Surge
When a colleague's nephew goes missing, Detective Inspector Andy Horton is recalled from his sailing trip to France. But when the charred remains of a body are discovered in a disused tunnel at the Hilsea Lines in Portsmouth, what began as the hunt for a missing man becomes the search for a ruthless killer.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor
When the village's prodigal son, Huw Hughes, returns and sets his cap at Annie Parker, Annie's colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency make it their business to unearth the truth as to why Huw has been widowed three times. Is Annie in danger?
£24.94
Canongate Books Ltd If Anything Should Happen
Introducing radio talkshow host and amateur sleuth Kit Doyle in the first of this thoroughly entertaining mystery series.When Kit Doyle's near-perfect mother tells her about the letter she's written and locked away a letter to be read only if anything should happen' to her Kit thinks she's being melodramatic. But the next day Kit's mother is dead and what she reads in that letter will change Kit's life forever.Armed with nothing but the secret letter, a tight-lipped father, and some good friends at the radio station where she works, Kit sets out to learn the truth about the shady past her mother has kept hidden for so many years.But when a dead body turns up, Kit realizes that at least one person is determined to stop her finding out the truth whatever it takes.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Blood Red White and Blue
4th July. A body is found shot in the back. Mary McGill and her dog, Millie, had seen him at a jewelry shop, with his dog, Ranger. Could the necklace he looked at be connected with his death? What brought him to Santa Louisa? Whilst caring for Ranger temporarily, Mary is drawn into the investigation and serious danger . and more murder.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd I Wish You Missed Me
Farley Black, Kit's former radio co-host, is missing. Kit is determined to find out what's happened. But when Kit searches Farley's home, she discovers he has been lying to her. A series of incidents convinces Kit that she's being watched and she realizes she isn't just looking for her friend, but running from a killer.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd The Missing Diamond Murder
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Canongate Books Ltd The Missing Diamond Murder
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Canongate Books Ltd Lost Voyage
Art Marvik, former Royal Marine Commando, is surprised by a late-night summons to meet Helen Shannon, a woman he helped on his first mission.
£18.89
Canongate Books Ltd Outside Eden
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Canongate Books Ltd New River Blues
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Canongate Books Ltd Without a Grave
Hannah's in paradise, enjoying the active rhythms of Bahamian island life. When controversy arises over the construction of a luxury resort that could devastate the coral reef, Hannah dives in. Acts of vandalism, a wildfire, a missing scientist - Hannah suspects a connection, but her investigation stalls when Hurricane Helen slams into the island.
£21.19
Canongate Books Ltd The Poisoned Chalice Murder
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Canongate Books Ltd The Man Who Came Back
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Canongate Books Ltd The Incident
A young woman returns to her hometown to confront her troubled past in this absorbing novel of romantic suspenseSix years after the incident' that no one will talk about, Victoria Myers returns to her small hometown in the Catskill Mountains. After years in therapy, she is determined to start living life to the full once again particularly when she starts dating handsome Bart Stonefield, son of a wealthy local businessman.But the past has not yet been laid to rest. No one has ever been brought to justice for the crime committed against the teenage Victoria and at least one person within the community is concealing the truth about what happened that night. Not everyone is happy about Victoria and Brad's developing relationship and what is it that Brad is keeping from Victoria? Is she still in danger?
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Canongate Books Ltd The High Flyer
Twelve years after World War I, former Flight Sergeant Ben Norton must discover the truth behind his wartime colleague's death.1930. The Lance family, major shareholders in Marshfield Aviation, watch in horror as their prototype fighter fails to pull out of a dive during a display before government and military VIPs. At the pilot's funeral, a man introduces himself to the widow as Ben Norton, a close friend of her husband during war service with the Royal Flying Corps.Ben becomes Marshfield's new Test Pilot, determined to refute worldwide press claims of a faulty aircraft design. Convinced that deliberate sabotage was behind the crash, the young flyer vows to uncover whoever was responsible. But who is Ben Norton? And why is it that the man he claims to have been his close wartime colleague had not once mentioned Ben to his wife during eight years of marriage?
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Season of Blood
1390. Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire. Two monks lie murdered, their Holy Blood relic stolen. As he attempts to return the relic to where it belongs, Crispin Guest must shield a former nemesis from a charge of murder while becoming entangled with a mysterious woman caught between Church politics and the dangerous intrigues of King Richard's court.
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Canongate Books Ltd Second Skin
An intriguing mystery featuring homicide detective Daniel Turner in the second of this atmospheric crime noir series, following Blue Avenue.When one of her students is found dead, English teacher Lillian Turner and her husband, Navy war veteran Johnny Bellefleur, are drawn into the investigation. Having made a macabre discovery which throws a disturbing new light on the case, Johnny and Lillian find themselves involved in something darker and more dangerous than they could have imagined.With their marriage cracking under the strain and Johnny's sanity under threat, the pair is warned to stay out of the case by Lillian's brother, homicide detective Daniel Turner. Just what is Daniel's connection to the dead girl? Does he know more than he's letting on? Can Lillian trust her own brother?
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Canongate Books Ltd Thrill Kill
Three murders. One item ties them together: a can of spray gas has been left after each crime. With no leads and no witnesses, the cops have to wait for murder number four, but Archer realizes there's a pattern taking shape. Teaming up with voodoo queen Solange Cordray, Archer begins to uncover evidence of a shocking conspiracy.
£20.69
Canongate Books Ltd Second Sitting
£18.89