The Serpent Pool

Author: Martin Edwards
Series: Lake District Mystery, Book 3
Paperback: 347 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7490-0879-6
Recommendation: would read again


When DCI Hannah Scarlett moves house she starts to investigate an apparent suicide in the local tarn, the Serpent Pool. As Bethany was afraid of water, Hannah refuses to believe she would have committed suicide by drowning herself. When she discovers that her partner Marc Amos had kept quite about knowing Bethany, Hannah no longer knows who to trust, and turns to historian Daniel Kind for help solving the mystery. Before long they find themselves in real danger as they get closer to the truth than is comfortable for those with a secret to protect.

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The Arsenic Labyrinth

Author: Martin Edwards
Series: Lake District Mystery, Book 3
Paperback: 409 pages
ISBN: 978-0-7490-8004-4
Recommendation: would read again


Years ago Emma Bestwick walked out of her cottage towards the fells never to be seen again. Did Emma simply run away, have an accident, or was she murdered. After the local newspaper receives a number of anonymous tips about her disappearance it isn't long before DCI Hannah Scarlett re-opens the cold case.

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The Cipher Garden

Author: Martin Edwards
Series: Lake District Mystery, Book 2
Paperback: 343 pages
ISBN: 978-07490-8135-5
Recommendation: would read again


Historian Daniel Kind gets involved in solving another cold case when an anonymous tip-off to the lake District's Cold Case Review Team brings DCI Hannah Scarlett back into his life. Who would have wanted to kill gardener Warren Howe with his own scythe, and what secrets are hiding in the idyllic village of Old Sawrey.

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The Other

Author: David Guterson
Paperback: 256 pages
ISBN: 9780747596202
Recommendation: enjoyed


In 1972 Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from from different backgrounds, meet and start a life long friendship. As they get older Neil follows the American dream while John William drops out of society and makes a new life for himself deep in the woods. Only Neil knows where his friend has retreated to but will he keep the secret come what may?

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Author: Mark Haddon
Paperback: 280 pages
ISBN: 978-0099450252
Recommendation: wouldn't recommend


Christoper is autistic, which affects his view of the world around him in ways that even he admits can seem strange. When his neighbour's dog is killed he sets out on a journey to discover the perpetrator. Having been told to leave it alone by his father and the police he decides to stop at nothing to solve the crime, even leaving the safety of his own street on his own for the first time.

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Wild Fire

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 4
Paperback: 659 pages
ISBN: 9780751538274
Recommendation: have read before


The Custer Hill Club looks, from the outside, like any other private members club for the rich and powerful. It isn't until an federal agent, tasked to do routine surveillance on the club, disappears that John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, decide to take a closer look. Of course John's smart mouth gets them into trouble, but not as much trouble as the world will face if they don't stop the Custer Hill Club from initiating project WILD FIRE.

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Manhunt

Author: James Barrington
Series: Paul Richter, Book 1
Paperback: 486 pages
ISBN: 9780330462709
Recommendation: would read again


After 20 years in the Navy Paul Richter is looking for a job, but he hadn't planned on getting mixed up with a deniable branch of the British security establishment. Unfortunately he needed the money and the job seemed straightforward. Unfortunately it isn't long before Richter realizes his new job doesn't have long term prospects as in reality he is the expendable bait in a complex trap involving British and Russian security services. Can Richter outsmart both sides and survive?

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Payback

Author: James Barrington
Series: Paul Richter, Book 6
Paperback: 463 pages
ISBN: 9780330462693
Recommendation: would read again


Paul Richter was quietly enjoying being on an exercise with the SAS when he is called back to work in order to investigate a man who appears to be able to predict terrorist attacks. What should have been a quick trip to Dubai to expose a hoax turns into a race against time to uncover a terrifying plot to destabilize the Arab world.

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Timebomb

Author: James Barrington
Series: Paul Richter, Book 5
Paperback: 444 pages
ISBN: 9780230014749


After two operations to arrest terrorists in Geneva and Stuttgart go badly agent Paul Richter discovers that the terrorists are being tipped off. Unfortunately after the incident in Stuttgart Richter finds himself on the run from a murder charge. Can he discover what links these apparently separate terrorist cells before any other operations are compromised, or worse the terrorists succeed in their plans.

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Fallen

Author: Karin Slaughter
Series: Georgia Stories, Book 11
Hardback: 400 pages
ISBN: 978-1846057946


Special Agent Faith Mitchell, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has left her baby daughter Emma with her mother, Ex-Atlanta Police chief Evelyn Mitchell, while she attends a training course. Faith arrives back at the house to find it has been ransacked. There is plenty of blood but no sign of her mother, while Emma has been locked in the outside shed. Can Faith and her partner Will Trent unravel Evelyn's past to find her before it is too late?

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The Dinosaur Feather

Author: Sissel-Jo Gazan
Paperback: 536 pages
ISBN: 9780857380333


Anna, already stressed by her upcoming PhD defense, is suddenly plunged into the middle of a murder case when her supervisor Professor Lars Hellend is found murdered. Now as well as finessing her argument that birds are modern day dinosaurs she has to fight the demons from her past before the entire university department disappears or turns up dead.

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The Cobra Event

Author:Richard Preston
Paperback: 440 pages
ISBN: 0752817124


When Kate left home to go to school she thought she was getting the flu. Four hours later she is racked by convulsions and starts to chew on her own fingers. Fortunately, within minutes she is dead. Shortly afterwards a dead homeless man is discovered who also seems to have bitten himself. Before long it is clear that a new and deadly virus is at large. Alice Austen, has never seen such an efficient killer, but can she, and the rest of the CDC task force, unravel it's secrets and track down it's source before it is too late?

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Night Fall

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 3
Paperback: 577 pages
ISBN: 0751531804


The official report into the loss of TWA flight 880 was mechanical failure. After attending a memorial service for the victims, John Corey is introduced to a number of people who refuse to believe the official explanation. It doesn't take Corey long to start digging into the accident, especially after he is warned off by his superiors. One clue leads to another and before long Corey is, as usual, neck deep in a trouble!

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The Lion's Game

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 2
Paperback: 850 pages
ISBN: 0751528234


Having been forcibly retired from the NYPD, John Corey is now working for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force. When a routine assignment to meet a defector goes tragically wrong Corey and his boss Kate Mayfield set of across America on the bloody trail of the Lion, an international terrorist with a score to settle.

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Plum Island

Author: Nelson DeMille
Series: John Corey, Book 1
Paperback: 574 pages
ISBN: 075152185X


NYPD homicide detective John Corey is recovering at his uncles waterfront house on Long Island having been shot in the line of duty. When his new friends Tom and Judy are found shot dead on their patio Corey is pulled into the investigation. What starts out looking like a bungled burglary quickly turns into an issue of national security.

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First King Of Shannara

Author: Terry Brooks
Series: Shannara, Book 10
Hardback: 489 pages
ISBN: 0099601915


Dark forces under the Warlock Lord are massing in the Northlands, the Druids have removed themselves from everyday life and the people of the Four Lands are woefully unprepared for the coming war. Only a renegade Druid, Bremen, can understand and appreciate the darkness that will fall across the world should the Warlock Lord leave the Northlands. Can Bremen summon enough help in time to defeat evil and protect the Four Lands?

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One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Author: Jasper Fforde
Series: Thursday Next, Book 6
Hardback: 385 pages
ISBN: 9780340963074


War is about to break out across the bookworld, and only the diplomatic skills of Jurisfiction agent Thursday Next can deliver peace. Unfortunately she has gone missing. Into the breach steps the written Thursday Next, can she prevent all out war, can she find the real Thursday before it's too late?

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First Among Sequels

Author: Jasper Fforde
Series: Thursday Next, Book 5
Hardback: 395 pages
ISBN: 9780340835753


Fourteen years have passed since we last met Thursday Next. Her son is now a sixteen year old slacker who refuses to help save the world, there is a huge stupidity surplus and cheese smuggling is still making Thursday's life difficult. To make matters worse Reality Book shows look set to destroy popular literature forever. Can Thursday get her lazy son out of bed before lunch and can she save the Bennets from eviction in the first round of popular voting?

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Something Rotten

Author: Jasper Fforde
Series: Thursday Next, Book 4
Paperback: 393 pages
ISBN: 0340825952


Having been caught smuggling cheese into Swindon from Wales, literary dectective Thursday Next is now unemployed in the real world. In the bookworld, however, she is struggling to force Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes. Most worryingly of all her husband, Landen, still doesn't exist anywhere but in her own memories.

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The Well Of Lost Plots

Author: Jasper Fforde
Series: Thursday Next, Book 3
Paperback: 360 pages
ISBN: 0340825936


Literary Detective and Jurisfiction Agent Thursday Next is pregnant, the only problem is that her husband no longer exists and only she can remember him. Not wanting to battle the evil Goliath Corporation while pregnant Thursday partakes in a character exchange programme and hides out in the Well of Lost Plots where all fiction is created. However, not everything in the bookworld is idyllic, the book system is due to be upgraded and as the date of the upgrade looms jurisfiction agents start mysteriously disappearing, a minotaur gets lose and the mispeling vyrus starts eating it's way through a forgotten fantasy novel. Can Thursday save the bookworld before it's too late?

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