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Praise for Peter Helton: "Fans of Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy will appreciate the scheme that Honeysett, who's a bit of a scalawag, concocts. . . . Readers will look forward to further installments in this off beat series."- Publishers Weekly "Sheer fun."- Booklist Chris Honeysett, an artist and private investigator, takes on a surveillance job to pay for repairs to his roof and finds himself faced with... (more)

The Coroner

by M. R. Hall

When lawyer, Jenny Cooper, is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of... (more)

The Strangest Man

The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo

Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. One of the youngest theoreticians ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather. Based on... (more)

Skin

by Mo Hayder

Wall and Piece

by Banksy

The collected works of Britain’s most wanted artist. Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable (except maybe when it’s squatting in the New York’s Metropolitan Museum or Museum of Modern Art.) Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world.... (more)

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George MuÌ?ller : delighted in God

by Roger Steer

Playing James

by Sarah Mason

Rules? What rules? Plucky beat reporter Holly Colshannon has a flair for the dramatic, a nose for trouble, and the remarkable ability to smile through any indignity—though her latest assignment is about to test her mettle. Newly “promoted” to crime reporter for the Bristol Gazette, she must shadow the unsmiling (though undeniably delicious) Detective James Sabine through his action-packed days, and then... (more)

Anarchy and Old Dogs

by Colin Cotterill

Praise for the Dr. Siri Paiboun series: “A hero unlike any other.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer “Magically sublime.”— Entertainment Weekly A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventy-four, Dr. Siri is too old... (more)

The Saint John's Fern: A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery

The Saint John's Fern: A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery

by Kate Sedley

It is October 1477 and Roger the Chapman, newly married and still enjoying wedded bliss, is surprised to find his old, familiar feeling of restlessness returning. Within a month he is setting off, once again, on the ancient ridge road that dissects Dartmoor and heads for Plymouth, driven by some instinct that he is needed there. Roger accepts a lift from a carter who is going to visit his daughter, Joanna, in... (more)

The Lammas Feast (A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)

The Lammas Feast (A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)

by Kate Sedley

The eleventh in the highly acclaimed Roger the Chapman series It's July 1478, and business is good for Bristol's bakers during the lead up to Lammastide - 'Loaf-mass', the ancient harvest festival. But the shady Jasper Fairbrother's baking days are over when he's found face down with a knife in his back. Suspicion immediately falls on the mysterious Breton who'd arrived that day and had been seen having an... (more)

The Weaver's Inheritance (Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)

The Weaver's Inheritance (Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)

by Kate Sedley

The year is 1476, and after a hard winter hawking his wares through the ice and rain, Roger the Chapman is looking forward to spending Christmas in Bristol, enjoying the warm hearth and good food of his mother-in-law Margaret-even if it means the young widower will have to endure her constant matchmaking. However, Margaret has barely introduced him to her cousin Adela when Roger's attentions are demanded... (more)

The Prodigal Son (Roger the Chapman)

by Kate Sedley

The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is accused of being the young page who, six years earlier, robbed his mistress and murdered a fellow servant, and is thrown into prison, Roger feels obliged to investigate the charge.

The Holy Innocents

by Kate Sedley

Upon his arrival at the village of Totnes, peddler-cum-sleuth Roger the Chapman hears of a band of outlaws who allegedly murdered two missing children, but he must use his detective talent to find the real killers, while fighting to save his own life. Reprint.

The Goldsmith's Daughter (A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)

The Goldsmith's Daughter (A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)

by Kate Sedley

King Edward IV trembles as he decides the fate of his sibling. And Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots, trying to find a way to save George from being put to death by their eldest -- and powerful -- brother, the King. So when the Duke sees his old and loyal servant, monk-turned-travelling salesman Roger the Chapman, among the crowd at the trial he recognises that he has a chance. If only the chapman-sleuth could... (more)

The Weaver's Tale: The Third Tale of Roger the Chapman

The Weaver's Tale: The Third Tale of Roger the Chapman

by Kate Sedley

When the disreputable brother of a respected nobleman is hanged for murdering a man who later turns up alive, Roger, a fifteenth-century English peddler, senses foul play among the gentry. Reprint.

The Wicked Winter

by Kate Sedley

Despite the wintry weather, Roger the traveling Chapman is once again relishing the freedom of his calling. As he journeys west, he finds himself following in the footsteps of an itinerant preacher, Brother Simeon, whose fiery sermons are the talk of the countryside. Roger, who has met the Dominican friar before, and finds his zeal wearying, is less than enthused when they meet at Cederwell Manor, where Simeon... (more)

The Three Kings of Cologne (Roger the Chapman)

The Three Kings of Cologne (Roger the Chapman)

by Kate Sedley

The new Roger the Chapman novelWhen the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier and was known to have had three secret lovers, are discovered on nunnery land, Roger the Chapman is called in. Faced with the task of tracking down three people of whom he knows next to nothing, Roger nicknames them Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior after the Magi the Three Kings of Cologne.. .

Ritual: A Novel

by Mo Hayder

Mo Hayder's previous novels The Devil of Nanking and The Treatment have ranked her among the most exciting and provocative thriller writers now working. In her latest, Ritual , Hayder gives us a taut, chilling tale of clandestine occult practices, New Age medicine, and the drug underground, set in a hypermodern urban landscape challenged by colliding immigrant cultures. Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April,... (more)

Shatter

by Michael Robotham

In Michael Robotham’s latest thriller, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin—the appealing hero of Suspect —tries to prevent a suicide and finds himself locked in a deadly duel with a very clever killer. Joe O'Loughlin is on familiar territory—standing on a bridge high above a flooded gorge, trying to stop a distraught woman from jumping. She is naked, wearing only high-heel shoes, sobbing into a cell phone. Suddenly,... (more)

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