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Author
Series
Ridley Jones volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Recently, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act - picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab - puts Ridley at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she's taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away...
2) The suspect
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing on their gap year in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth - and this time is no exception. But she can't help but think of her own son, who she hasn't seen since he left home to go travelling two years...
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The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship. A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover from a traumatic break-in. Except things don't go as planned... At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties sparkling, the guests elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, grey skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare:...
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Series
Shopaholic volume 1
Description
Becky is a shopaholic who has lost the ability to say no. She tries making more money, she even tries cutting back, but neither seems to work. Now with her cards stopped and no credit she has to escape from this dream world, but how?
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In this all-new culinary cozy mystery series, reporter turned Tex-Mex waitress Josie Callahan is about to go from serving queso to solving cases? After losing her newspaper job in Austin and having her former fianc ÌŒunfriend her on Facebook, Josie Callahan scoops up her Chihuahua, Lenny, and slinks back to Broken Boot, Texas. Maybe working as head waitress at Milagro-her aunt and uncle?s Tex-Mex restaurant-isn?t exactly living the dream,...
Author
Series
Ridley Jones volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2011
Description
If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life. Instead, she's in the wrong place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that begins with a mysterious package on her doorstep. A package that informs her that her entire world is just an illusion. Forced to question everything she knows about herself, Ridley wanders into dark...
8) Dublin dead
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Series
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Journalist Siobhan Fallon needs the help of DI Mike Mulcahy with a story she's covering about the disappearance of a young woman from Cork. When he agrees, the duo find themselves dragged into the ruthless world of international drug smuggling.
9) The hit
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A money-laundering accountant disappears in Romania. The hitman hired to disappear him is found dead in a Glasgow flat. And the owner of the flat, the accountant's widow, claims she knows nothing about it. Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour isn't convinced by Helen Lewis's innocent facade - she is convinced Helen was the one who ordered the hit on her husband, and she's going to prove it. But when she discovers that Helen's husband worked for a ring of...
10) The sculptress
Author
Publisher
Pan
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Description
Rosalind has no idea what awaits her inside the prison. As a journalist, she knows all about the case - how Olive Martin had been found cradling the bodies of her dead mother and sister, how she had pleaded guilty and been nicknamed 'The Sculptress'. But Roz thinks Olive is hiding something.
11) Liar
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Winner Of The Woman & Home Book Choice Award 2020 In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper. Until the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shocking scoop. Round the corner from her home, she discovers the body of a murder victim, dumped among the rubbish. When the police and reporters descend, Amelia is horrified at the assumptions made and lies soon to be...
Author
Publisher
The Friday Project
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The fifth book in the bestselling 'Confessions' series. Press junkets; premiers; Dom Perignon: they're all in a day's work for your average Hollywood celebrity. But what's it like on the otherside of the microphone? In this no-holds-barred memoir, showbiz reporter Holly Forest reveals the less glamorous side of the world's most glamorous industry: show business.
14) Final edition
Author
Series
Lindsay Gordon volume 30
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Lindsay Gordon finds herself dragged into a sordid world of blackmail, prostitution, lies and murder when she investigates the case of a former colleague jailed for killing a notorious Glaswegian journalist. Third in the popular mystery series. When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist with an irresistible sexual attraction to both sexes, is found murdered the police look no further than the owner of the scarf used to strangle her. Lindsay...
15) Prime time
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Description
13 people are spending the shortest night of the year in an isolated manor house to film a prime time television series. On the morning of midsummer's eve, the brightest star in Swedish television is found shot to death in a mobile control room. The murder turns newspaper reporter Annika Bengtzon's world upside down.
16) A cold killing
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story. But she has her own reasons to stay hidden. As Rosie digs deeper, she...
17) Smoke screen
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2008
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Description
Five years ago a fire gutted the police HQ. Seven died but thanks to four men, most inside were rescued. Now, one of them has called Britt Shelley and asks her to meet him. The next day she wakes in his bed to find him lying dead beside her. As the finger of blame points to her, she realises that she's the next intended victim.
Author
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2017
Description
From her early beginnings - a colourful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by independence and partition, a return to dreary post-war England, and on to a finishing school in Paris - Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. When, as a ten-year-old, she overheard herself described as 'desperately plain', she decided to rely on something different: glamour, eccentricity, character, a career - anything so as not to end up at the...
19) The final word
Author
Publisher
Corgi Books
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Annika Bengtzon has spent her career telling stories that need to be heard. As a journalist, she's always been at the front line of criminal reporting. And now a court case that she's been reporting on - the savage murder of a homeless man - has begun to attract a lot of attention. With the stakes rising by the day, Annika is once again flung to the heart of a complex case. But nagging at the back of her mind is her sister's mysterious absence. In...
20) The long shadow
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A violent robbery has taken place in an affluent area of the Costa Del Sol, in which an entire family are killed. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the story, and when she arrives in Spain and gains access to the crime scene, she is horrified to discover there was a third child - a teenage daughter - who is unaccounted for.