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In an isolated Suffolk cottage, a young American writer lives and battles with his artist wife. He fantasises about murdering her - and when she runs away, he tries out acting like a murderer. But when his wife doesn't turn up, people start wondering, the police start investigating - and he can't stop behaving suspiciously. The first of this American author's stories with an English setting.
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Star Wars. This volume comes between The Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The Emperor is dead, the remnants of his Empire are in retreat and a second Death Star has been destroyed. Many hope for new beginnings and new destinies - for Han Solo, it will mean settling his last outstanding debt, helping Chewbacca free the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. Norra Wexley and her band pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy. But as more and more officers of the Empire are brought to justice, Sloane manages to elude capture by the New Republic, and Norra fears that Sloane is searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. But the hunt is cut short when Norra receives an urgent summons fro Princess Leia Organa. The liberation of Kashyyyk has led Han, Chewbacca and a band of smugglers into an ambush - Chewbacca is captured, and Han has vanished. Norra and her crew race toward the Millennium Falcon's last known location...Cover art by Scott Biel.
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Inspector Lynley No. XVII. Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough, Cresswell's uncle. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victim's bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for - and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind.
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Gordon Reeve is going to the funeral of his brother, a journalist, found dead in his car - a presumed suicide. When he gets there, no-one wants to answer his questions - like why the car in which his brother was found was locked on the outside - and why does the local cop shadow him and stop him talking to the friend who saw Jim last? And he feels that it wasn't a ghost he saw parked outside the crematorium...Ex-SAS, a professional killer with an anger management problem, it's not in Reeve's nature to let such questions go unanswered - particular when the killers come knocking on his front door.
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A novelisation of the Carlo Ponti film of Noel Coward's 1936 play Still Life. A chance meeting in a cafe, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady's eye - and an affair is born; a brief yet unrelenting emotional tug-of-war between two people whose desire clashes with the facts of their lives. Anna is married to Graham and happily content with her home and children; Alec is trapped in a loveless marriage with cool, uninvolved Melanie, using his work as a doctor for fulfillment. Passion is ignited, then comes the test - can their dream become lasting love or will it founder on the rocks of reality? By the author of Island In The Sun. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/island-in-the-sun-alec-waugh/
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Book IV and the conclusion of the Chanur series. Alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war. Cover art by Mick Posen.
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Warren Tute (1914-1989) a naval officer who took part in the Normandy landings, collaborated with historians John Costello & Terry Hughes to produce this volume book for the 30th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The book opens with a facsimile of a letter from Eisenhower to the troops and there is a foreword by Lord Mountbatten. There are the newspaper headlines of the day, cartoons, maps and fabulous colour and black and white photos - a comprehensive, pictorial study of the preparation for and the events of the epic force that was the D-Day landings of 1944.
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The story of the dysfunctional and dirt-poor Walden family, headed by patriarch Ty Ty, who is firmly convinced that there is treasure buried on his land, treasure that dates back to the glory days of the clan. He is determined to find it and drives his family to dig up the entire property in a frenzied effort to find it - all except that acre that's dedicated to God and must not be touched! Made into a film with Robert Ryan and Tina Louise, well away from her ditzy Gilligan's Island role.