fiction

  • Last Take by R.K. Lynott

    “Family secrets, a celebrity murder, a wrongful conviction, Hollywood drama. It’s got everything.” An intolerable celebrity actor goes missing, and DI Ryan Hale and his team get a taste of the drama of Hollywood productions with all its lies, deceit, backstabbing, and power plays. At the same time, Ryan is presented with new evidence concerning…

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  • Book 1 in the Harker & Moriarty series. A brilliant gothic fantasy horror mystery set in Paris in 1903. Samantha Harker, the daughter of Jonathan and Mina Harker, works for The Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. Originally a researcher, Sam is desperate to leave the library and be assigned as a field…

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  • I reckon we always meet the people we’re supposed to meet. Which is why you ended up walking through that door. The Kamogawa Diner in Kyoto run by former police officer Nagare and his daughter Koishi has no sign out front, no menu and no online presence. And yet, customers find their way there from…

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  • Harry Crystal is a fairly unknown crime writer with a failed marriage and an estranged adult daughter. When he is invited to an all-expenses-paid Christmas stay in the remote village of Midwinter, he is more than happy to sign up as one of six guests invited to play a fun murder mystery game arranged by…

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  • A raw tale of revenge and a dark comedy about oppression, hypocrisy and the freedom to choose your own path in life. Abraham, or AB for short, is the favoured child, the golden boy of the Berg family. Sarah, his younger sister, is the black sheep who was disowned by their mother when she divorced…

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  • Book 2 in the Francine Witt Mystery series. Bottled Up resumes the action where book 1, Full Bodied ended, with Francine Witt on a mission to tell the story of Penelope Radcliffe, archaeologist and grandmother of Rosalind Downing, who is accompanying Francine as her research assistant. As the two of them begin to look into…

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  • Book 1 in the Francine Witt Mystery series. A fun, cozy, wine and Egyptology themed mystery with a surprisingly deep message of feminism and representation. Francine Witt is a wine blogger dreaming of a career in “real” journalism while posting budget wine recommendations and blogging about the shenanigans of two wine thieves who time and…

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  • Book 1 in the Barker & Llewelyn series. When Cyrus Barker advertises for a new assistant, a job that is described as having “some danger involved”, Thomas Llewelyn applies for the job. Barker is a Sherlock Holmes-style private detective possessing great knowledge, impressive fighting skills, a vast network of contacts and informants and firsthand experience…

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  • Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, known as Georgie to her friends, is a cousin of King George V of England and 35th in line to the throne. Unfortunately her family has fallen on hard times, and as Georgie refuses to marry for anything but love, she is basically penniless. Determined to fend for herself without…

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  • Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

    Book 1 in the Anno Dracula series. What if vampires were the ruling class of Victorian England, with Dracula himself having turned and married Queen Victoria, installing himself in London as the ruler of the British Empire? And what if the victims of Jack the Ripper were all vampires? This is the premise of Anno…

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