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The Silver Stain
Paul Johnston
Set against a glorious Greek background, the spellbinding new Alex Mavros mystery.
Hired by a Hollywood film company to trace a missing employee in Crete, private investigator Alex Mavros is plunged into a vortex of hatred. The company is shooting a movie about the invasion of Crete by the Germans in 1941 - and their activities are stirring up old resentments among the islanders. The bitterness of the past bursts into the present when one of the film's consultants is found dead, hanged by the neck. Suicide - or murder? Mavros investigates and is drawn into an ever-widening conspiracy.
The Sin Eater
Sarah Rayne
The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense.
When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather's North London house, it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the strange glimpses that revealed the darkness in his family's past, through which runs the grisly thread of an old legend about a chess set believed to possess a dark power. And when Michael Flint, meeting Benedict in Oxford, starts to research his story, chilling facts begin to emerge - facts that suggest the old legend contains a disturbing reality. Could the chess set's malevolence be reaching out to the present?
Sins of the Fathers
Anthea Fraser
Mark Richmond is up in Scotland getting to know the Crawford family, but the health of his father-in-law, Peter Kingsley, is deteriorating in England. As Peter continues to struggle, it seems the Richmonds and the Kingsleys are inextricably entwined by the sins of their fathers - sins that will ultimately lead to tragedy.
Sisters
Patricia MacDonald
Could finding her long lost sister be the biggest mistake Alex Woods has ever made?
Having recently lost both her parents in a tragic car accident, Alex Woods is shocked to discover through the family lawyer that her beloved mother was keeping a secret - a baby she gave up for adoption when she had just left high school. But when Alex decides to search for her long lost sister - and finds her - she is in for a terrible surprise.
The Sixth Man and other Stories
Bill James
An anthology featuring previously unpublished Harpur and Iles stories.
All is not well in the underworld. With three entirely new Harpur and Iles stories, three more never before published together, plus a spicy little interlude with some crooks from the series and a fistful of other tales from the seamier side of life, this anthology is a must-read for fans of Bill James's dark, gritty thrillers.
Skeleton Blues
Paul Johnston
Ex-cop Quint Dalrymple discovers there is something very rotten in the independent city-state of Edinburgh in this near-future dystopian thriller.
Edinburgh, spring 2034. The weather's balmy, there's a referendum on whether to join a reconstituted Scotland coming up - and a tourist is found strangled. As usual, maverick detective Quint Dalrymple is called in to do the Council of City Guardians' dirty work. But this is a case where nothing is as it seems.
Skeleton Plot
J.M. Gregson
Skeletons have a habit of showing themselves eventually . . .
When a human skeleton is discovered on the boundary of a 20-year-old property development, it seems there are a large number of people who may know the identity of the corpse and how it got there; but those individuals were very different people back then. Skeletons are being revealed in all senses and it's up to Detective Chief Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook to unearth the truth of how and why the body ended up buried in the ground all those years ago.
Skin Like Silver
Chris Nickson
The third intriguing historical mystery to feature Detective Inspector Tom Harper
Leeds, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposing body of a baby boy. At the same time, a woman's body is found at Leeds' railway station, stabbed to death. Was the dead woman's involvement in the local suffragist movement connected with her death? And is there a connection with the dead baby boy?
Smile and Be a Villain
Jeanne M. Dams
A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin.
Talking a walk on the first day of their holiday on the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, discover a body on a precipitous hill path. An accident - or something more sinister? Dorothy and Alan make it their business to find out.
Smoke and Mirrors
Casey Daniels
Introducing museum curator and amateur sleuth Miss Evie Barnum in the first of a deliciously quirky new historical mystery series.
Evie Barnum is in charge of her brother's museum, a place teeming with scientific specimens and wonders, including Jeffrey, the Lizard Man. When an old friend shows up and begs for her help, but is then found dead in front of the exhibit of the Feejee Mermaid, suspicion for the murder falls on Jeffrey, and Evie becomes determined to solve the mystery of her friend's murder.
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