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• All the Broken Places

  Boyne, John, 1971-

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  1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

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  Johnston, Anna, 1983-

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  Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he'd return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is there's nobody left in Fred's life to borrow from. At eighty-two, he's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

  Cronin, Marianne

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  Eddie Winston is ninety years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bookshop Ladies

  Hogan, Faith

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  Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determined to find out. She arrives in Ballycove…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen Macbeth

  McDermid, Val, 1955-

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  A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unseen Hand

  Marston, Edward, pseud., 1940-

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  1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele, attracting the cream of London's society. But a dead body found in one of its rooms is hardly good for business, and when it is discovered that the woman was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Age Disgracefully

  Pooley, Clare

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  When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Daughter of Fair Verona

  Dodd, Christina

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  Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint badly). Only here's the thing: That's not how it ended at all. Romeo and Juliet are alive and well and the parents of seven kids.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Play the Fool

  King, Laurie R., 1952-

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• After Sundown

  Howard, Linda, pseud., 1950-

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  Sela Gordon, shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude. If anyone can chip away at her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious, ex-military man who's been hiding for two years in the wilds of Cove Mountain. But when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Passions in Death

  Robb, J. D., pseud., 1950-

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  The party was a killer. On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas is called to a downtown club, where a joint bachelorette party full of love, friendship and laughter has taken a darker turn and ended in a crime scene. One of the brides has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frankie

  Norton, Graham, 1963-

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  Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mrs Hopkins

  Barrett, Shirley, 1961-2022

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  On a rainy night in 1871, an idealistic schoolmistress arrives on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. Mrs Hopkins doesn't know what to expect from the notorious Biloela Industrial School for Girls, but nothing could prepare her for what she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Secret Agent

  My Untold Story of Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Enemy Lines

  Latour, Pippa, 1921-2023

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  This is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Club

  Meaney, Roisin

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  A tragic accident leaves the tight-knit book club in the small seaside town of Fairweather reeling. Then stranger Tom McLysaght arrives in the community, and the members of the club find their lives changing in ways they never could have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

  Stevenson, Benjamin

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  When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death at Thorburn Hall

  Deering, Julianna, pseud

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  Drew Farthering finds a new mystery on his hands when he arrives at Thorburn Hall in Scotland for the 1935 British Open. His host, Lord Rainsby, asks Drew to investigate a suspected embezzler and then dies in a suspicious accident the next…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Random in Death

  Robb, J. D., pseud., 1950-

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  Sixteen-year-old Jenna Harbough's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vanishing Hour

  Griffin, Laura, 1973-

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  When a cold case in Texas leads to a sinister string of disappearances, a newcomer to the small town helps a detective piece together the clues in this new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin. Corporate…Read moreRead more of this annotation